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'Sunday Times' to Become Test Case for Murdoch's Paid Content Plans

Rupert Murdoch plans to use the Sunday Times as a test for his new push to charge for online content, beginning in November. The Sunday Times website is currently combined with sister title the Times, but it will be launched as a stand-alone site in the fall and will begin charging a fee to access content, according to the Guardian. So far, it is unclear whether the s  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 6th 2009

EU To Microsoft: For the Last Time, Stop Bundling IE With Windows

This week Microsoft suffered a heavy blow when the European Commission (EC) issued an order demanding that it remove its browser from the Windows operating system package. "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice," the Commissi  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 23rd 2009

United Kingdom Cracks Down on 'Suicide Sites'

Since the Suicide Act of 1961, the United Kingdom considers it illegal to promote suicide. The act will be amended to include web publishers with so-called "suicide websites," and to help internet service providers police sites for such content, reports the BBC, following concerns that users querying for suicide information hope to locate sites encouraging them to do it. "Updating the language of the Suicide Act [...] should help to  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 17th 2008

British Proposal May Force ISPs to Fork Over Online Activity, Emails, VOIP Calls

The British Home Office is considering a proposal that would require British ISPs and telecoms to surrender records of customer emails, internet use, VOIP calls, and text messages. The ruling, if passed, would avail mobile information and internet use, including emails, to police and security forces with permission from courts. Reuters says the data will "help security forces in the fight against crime and ter  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 21st 2008

Olympics Channel Launches Amid Strikes in Beijing, Torch Trouble in Paris

The NewsMarket debuted the Beijing 2008 Olympics Channel today. The destination will provide free news content about the Beijing games in both English and Chinese. It will also include video for use by journalists and bloggers. The page went live despite drama about the pending state of internet access over the course of the Games. According to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 8th 2008

Tax on Internet, Mobile May Replace French TV Ads

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has proposed a bill that bans commercials on public television and taxes internet and mobile phone service, reports the International Herald Tribune. On abolishing advertising on public TV, Sarkozy said channels "could be financed by a tax on advertising revenues of private broadcasters and an infinitesimal tax on the revenues of new means of communication like Internet  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 9th 2008

Hands Off Virtual Goods -- Theft is Punishable by Arrest

The BBC reports the arrest of a Dutch teenager who was recently caught stealing virtual furniture from "bedrooms" from the Habbo Hotel, a virtual world. The teenager allegedly lifted 4,000 euros worth of virtual furniture, an act deemed fit for legal reprimand because "the furniture is paid for with real money," according to a spokesman for Sulake,  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 14th 2007

U.S. Leads 'Dirty Dozen' Spam-Relaying Countries in Q3

Over the third quarter, the US (again) relayed more spam than any other nation, accounting for a massive 28.4 percent of all the world's spam emails sent through compromised computers, according to the latest Sophos study of the top 12 spam-relaying countries, reports MarketingCharts. Me  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 30th 2007

Usability of 50% of UK's Top High Street Retailer Sites Worse than '06

Though online sales revenue for holiday shopping in the UK this year is predicted to top £10 billion (source: IMRG), the UK's leading names in retail risk losing substantial revenues to sliding standards of online sales channels, according to a Webcredible study,   [...]
Posted: Friday, October 19th 2007

Mobile Text Advertising: US Response Rates Higher Than Europe

Though the volume of SMS ads reported by mobile subscribers is lower in the US than in the five leading Western European markets, the US has the highest response rates, according to M:Metrics, which released its July Benchmark Survey of mobile market metrics (see tables at end of article),   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 24th 2007

In the UK, 'Cyber Bullying' Will Not Be Tolerated

A UK government study recently revealed that a third of students, aged 12 to 15, have encountered some form of cyberbullying. Teachers in the country are now being given guidelines on how to fight it. According to the BBC News, "Examples [of cyber bullying] include threats, intimidation, harassment or 'cyber-stalking,' unauthorised publication of private information or images, impersonation and  [...]
Posted: Monday, September 24th 2007

Tech-Savvy UK Teens Suffering from 'Junk Sleep'

The UK's Sleep Council has announced that "junk sleep" -- where teenagers distracted by electronics get less than 8 hours of sleep -- could rival junk food as a lifestyle issue. A poll of 1,000 teens between 12 and 16 found that 30 percent got four to seven hours of sleep at most. A quarter said they fell asleep more than once a week while engaged with electronics - with the TV, the radio or the computer on. "What we are seeing is the emergence of junk sleep - that is, sleep t  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 29th 2007

Ireland Issues First Prison Sentence for Music Piracy

The Irish Recorded Music Association has put a man in prison over music piracy, marking the first time the country has laid out such a sentence. According to Listening Post, Martin McDonagh was sentenced for six months and given a 1,000 Euro fine after pleading guilty to copyright infringement charges. McDonagh was caught selling 226 illegal CD copies on the market.  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 21st 2007

UK Blacklists Off-Shore Gambling Sites from Advertising, Enacts White List Application Process

The UK government has just banned about 1,000 offshore gambling sites from advertising - across all media - within the country. The ban does not affect gambling companies within the European Economic Area. According to The Guardian, the new Gambling Act will forbid online gambling firms based outside of the UK, including Costa Rica, the Netherlands Antilles and Belize, from advertisi  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 9th 2007

Ads Pulled from Facebook when Extreme Nationalist Page Shows Up

The Guardian reports that Vodafone and First Direct pulled their ads from Facebook yesterday after finding they were placed on entries created by the British National Party. The action sparks concern among major advertisers over Facebook's lack of control in randomized ad placement - something that happened in the U.S.   [...]
Posted: Friday, August 3rd 2007

Social Networks Impact Music Downloads; Piracy Growing

While music piracy rises and legal downloads of music allegedly slow (that is, unless you're iTunes), social networks boast a growing impact on the way users consume music. This news comes per a survey by Entertainment Media Research (EMR) and law firm Olswang, MarketingCharts   [...]
Posted: Friday, August 3rd 2007

British Police Remove Child-Fighting Videos

A BBC investigation has led British authorities to remove online videos of children engaged in vicious fights, reports the BBC. The new organization's reports found videos of children as young as 11 engaged in intense and savage fistfights. Police say it is the responsibility of companies like YouTube to remove offensive or illegal material from their sites. But YouTube, for its part, says it relies solely on users to fl  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 30th 2007

Kazakhstan's Internet Access Not Very Nice

Kazakhstan residents face both outrageous internet access costs as well as restrictions on their online publishing freedoms, reports Ars Technica. Just getting online can cost between $111 and $22,000 a month, depending on the desired connection speed, and not including hardware. The average monthly wage in Kazakhstan is just $399. That means lar  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 30th 2007

BBC Trust: Aghast at Uprising over XP-Only iPlayer

Yesterday the BBC Trust met with the UK's Open Source Consortium to discuss issues raised by the iPlayer, a BBC content streaming program that is only compatible with Windows XP. The BBC Trust, which oversees the BBC, expressed surprise by the passion behind platform neutrality demands made by a seething public, and repeated its assurance that "the BBC provides high quality output and go  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 25th 2007

Russia, Estonia Face First Cyberwar, US Enters Fray

The cyberattack that Estonia suffered last May, culminating in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on the country's major websites, has spawned some response from the US, reports ArsTechnica. The US has sent an investigative team to Estonia to help analyze a large volume of data generated by the attacks to help train Estonian IT workers in securing   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 9th 2007