Category: Media
Three Mobile Broadband users getting free The Times subscriptions
Three Mobile Broadband users will today be offered free subscriptions to The Times newspaper's raft of web content. Now sitting behind a paywall, Three Mobile Broadband subscribers will get three months free access to the news sites, including the Sunday…
Paid content: The current models
Paid content. It's the future, or so Rupert Murdoch thinks, and he might well be right. Content is the lifeblood of the Internet — without it, it'd be little more than a place to chat and buy stuff. Most people…
NME and BlackBerry team up for new "Breakthrough" music social network
NME and BlackBerry are to team up on a new social network. Breakthrough will be primarily aimed at musicians and music fans, allowing users to upload music and videos onto a network teeming with music aficionados. Uploaded music will also…
The General Election in 12 YouTube videos
The 2010 General Election is almost upon us, and after months of long, hard campaigning up and down the streets of Britain, it's turned out to be pretty riveting, nail-biting stuff. A real three-horse race for the first time…
The Sun newspaper to publish 3D issue
The Sun newspaper are gearing up to release a one-off 3D issue on June 5th. The special edition will feature colour ads and editorial,and, of course, their infamous Page 3 girl in 3D. The issue will come with a pair…
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch applauds the iPad, defends paywalls, slams Google (again)
Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation chairman and massively rich media-maestro, has once again attacked Google in defence of his plans for paywalls on his news sites. "We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking…
Mobile apps to be bigger than CDs by 2012
Could mobile phone apps be set to outsell CDs? That's the prediction GetJar are making, believing that applications will generate $17.5 billion worth of revenues in 2012, compared to CD's $13.83 billion as predicted by the IFPI. The prediction comes…
How the internet could save BBC 6 Music
Like you I can't believe the news I am hearing this morning from the BBC. 6 Music, one of the BBC's best innovations in recent years, is to go along with the Asian network and half of its website. While…
Absolute Radio shopping for BBC 6 Music
Calling all depressed 6 Music fans! You can put away your Radiohead tunes and prepare for a bit of Walking on Sunshine, for, if as The Times rumoured this morning, the BBC does shut your favourite radio station down,…
Guardian introduce Zeitgeist content trending page
Here's an interesting new feature from Guardian.co.uk. They've this week introduced their Zeitgeist page, a collage of popular content from their site organised by "social signals". Each article to be featured on the Zeitgeist page is first judged by the…
