Tag: the times
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Top Online Digital Services – Spotify, LoveFilm, Dropbox and more!
Tech gifts don't have to be about screen sizes or processing capabilities these days. In fact, they don't have to be physical gifts at all. You can put a smile on a loved one's face just by setting them up…
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…
App Store Round-Up: Hockey, Taschen, crosswords and more!
It's as varied a bunch of apps as ever hitting Apple's store this week. From the Times Concise Crossword to the iStudiez Pro revision planner, the App Store is both all work AND all play this week. Keep an eye…
UPDATE: Secret police blogger unmasked by courts
The police officer behind the award-winning Night Jack blog has been revealed. The disclosure comes as a result of detective constable Richard Horton losing a legal case in which he sought an injunction against The Times to keep his anonymity.
Mr Justice Eady refused the injunction, ruling that it was in the public interest to reveal DC Horton’s identity.
The Night Jack blog had received wide praise for its honest and frank representations of police life and was awarded the Orwell special prize for blogs earlier this year.
Unfortunately the blog has now been deleted at Wordpress, although you can still read some extracts via The Guardian.
(via The FT)
Opinion: Free music file sharing was never going to hit the right notes with record firms
Jonathan Weinberg writes… You don’t get anything in life for free. So the saying goes.
And so, I’m not surprised that a website which promised us the world’s first legal file-sharing service has had to backtrack on the plans after the record companies said they were not yet supporting it.
Qtrax made a big song and dance about their launch over in Cannes with stars including James Blunt there. They secured quite a bit of coverage in all the national newspapers too in Britain.
But maybe it would have made sense to secure the record firms first, after all, as the gatekeepers of the industry, they are pretty important don’t you think? It’s like saying you’ve got a No1 song, without actually having the lyrics written or the musical score penned…
