E-paper heralds new dawn of publishing
E-paper heralds new dawn of publishingJAMES FORSYTH
The Business
27 Jan 2007
E-PAPERhas long been the technology touted as the newspaper industry’s saviour. Until now, however, it has singularly failed to live up to expectations, forcing publishers to turn to the internet instead for salvation. But all of this might be about to...
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Australia media gets hot
Australia media gets hotBy Lyndal McFarland
The Wall Street Journal Europe
30 Jan 2007
SYDNEY—Australia’s decision to relax media-ownership rules has sparked a shakeup of the A$40 billion (US$30.93 billion) sector, with international buyout groups and industry chiefs jostling for pieces of the action. The government won’t formalize...
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From Aladdin to Lost Ark, Muslims get angry at ‘bad guy’ film images
Web watch made easy with bundlers, tickers and feeds
Web watch made easy with bundlers, tickers and feedsB David Crow
The Business
20 Jan 2007
UYINGone daily newspaper is easy but few folk have the time to visit all their favourite websites every day. To make life easier, some people are turning to Really Simple Syndication, a technology that allows users to view headlines and summaries from...
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Below-inflation licence fee deal means tough choices
Below-inflation licence fee deal means tough choicesOwen Gibson Media correspondent
The Guardian
19 Jan 2007
The BBC yesterday warned of a 2bn black hole in its finances and said it faced “tough decisions” over its future priorities after the government confirmed a below-inflation licence fee settlement. Handing it a six-year licence fee deal that will see...
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Mobile TV fails to sell despite ad campaign
Mobile TV fails to sell despite ad campaignRichard Wray
The Guardian
17 Jan 2007
Watching TV on a mobile phone has proved less of a turn-on for British consumers than the telecoms industry had hoped, with Virgin Mobile understood to have sold fewer than 10,000 handsets for its mobile TV service, despite a major advertising...
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Link this: papers embrace Google
Link this: papers embrace GoogleBy Aaron O. Patrick
The Wall Street Journal Europe
12 Jan 2007
BLondon RITAIN’S FAMOUSLY competitive newspapers have a new battleground: Google. Newspapers are buying search words on Google Inc. so that links to theirWeb sites pop up first when people type in a search. The Daily Telegraph, for example, bought the...
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Call yourself a critic?
Call yourself a critic?
The Guardian
08 Jan 2007
When the Germanborn painter Tomma Abts won the Turner prize last month, the reporting of the story was, for me, hugely enriched by an accompanying column by this newspaper’s art critic, Adrian Searle. With quiet confidence, he hailed the decision as...
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