Tag: Paywall
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…
The Times experiences massive loss in readers after introducing paywall
The Times and Sunday Times websites have experienced a huge drop in their readership after parent company News Corporation introduced a paywall, requiring readers to subscribe before accessing the content on the site. As of June 15th, readers were asked…
The Times goes behind a paywall today
Readers of The Times website, the online presence of one the UK's oldest and most well respected papers goes behind a paywall today. Long gone is free-browsing of The Times articles, with access now restricted to those willing to…
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…
5 things iTunes must do to stay ahead of Spotify
Since it launched nearly a decade ago, Apple's iTunes has become almost synonymous with digital music. A beautiful and intuitive user-interface coupled with the most thorough library of legal MP3 downloads available, it was the perfect accompaniment to the iPod…
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…
Guardian launch iPhone news app
Guardian News and Media have launched their first iPhone app. Delivering live news feeds to your hand, the app has intuitive navigating features such as the ability to favourite articles, browse by subject, as well as fast download speeds…
Google give in to publishers like News Corp; free news access to be limited
Google's Josh Cohen announced that changes made to the First Click Free Programme would now allow publishers to charge for their premium content.
