2005-2014

Everything about teenage tennis sensation Sania Mirza makes news nowadays. All with good reason. So, the one about the 18-year-old Hyderbad lass being featured on the cover of Time magazine made a splash well. Newspapers very faithfully gave the item prominence, some even on their front pages. Sorry, but one must be a party pooper this time and take the fizz out of the champagne that has been...

Members of the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) of UK have agreed to adopt a standard timeline by which they intend to impose penalties for the delivery of late advertising creative. Following announcement last month of their intention to push for voluntary guidelines for publishers as a result of increased frustration over the effects of late delivery, members of AOP including Associated...

Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Spending on Internet advertising in the U.K. rose 62 percent to 490.8 million pounds ($861 million) in the first half and is now worth more than outdoor advertising, an industry group said. The Internet had 5.8 percent of the U.K. advertising market in the first six months of 2005, more than outdoor media's 5.1 percent, the Internet Advertising Bureau said in an e-mailed...

Just a few days ago, The New Yorker magazine released ''The Complete New Yorker," a $100, eight-DVD set that allows you to read, and print a copy of, every article that has ever appeared in the magazine. To get an idea of how the TCNY might work on your computer, a free demo is available at thenewyorkerstore.com. So I was wondering: What gives them the right to do this? It's not possible that...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The average American is a ravenous media junkie, consuming up to nine hours a day of television, web time or cellphone minutes, according to new research which raises fresh questions about how technology is revolutionising society. From iPods filling commuters' ears, the screens scrolling headlines in the elevator at work to proliferating on-the-move tools like cellphones and...

Major Internet sites are vying to become more like traditional media companies, setting up online clearinghouses for books, television, music and more in a bid to lure viewers. Today Lycos Inc., an early Internet search engine, plans to launch a technology to allow its U.S. users to self-publish video content on its site. Yesterday, Yahoo Inc. said it would spearhead the Open Content Alliance, a...

WASHINGTON -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller said Tuesday that if the federal prosecutor who sent her to jail doesn't bring criminal charges in his probe of the Bush administration, she will wonder why she spent nearly three months behind bars. "If he brings indictments, if he has a very serious case, then I might have to say perhaps his zealousness with respect to this mission was...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller said Tuesday that she hopes the results of a probe into the leak of a CIA agent's identity will justify the nearly three months she spent in jail for refusing to identify her source. "If [special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald] has a very serious case, then I might have to say that perhaps his zealousness with respect to this mission was...

WASHINGTON – Army officials this week issued new warnings to soldiers about posting personal stories from combat zones on the Internet and taking photos at overseas bases, saying those actions could jeopardize troops’ security. The list of prohibited activities includes taking photos of Defense Department facilities, posting any official Defense Department information and releasing information...

THE INTERNET hasn't made everyone happy. There's spam, pornography, shady businesses and political dissent. A 40-nation U.N. study group thinks it has found another sore point: the nonprofit agency that sets the domain-naming rules and numbered computer addresses used for e-mails and Web sites. The problem? This nearly-invisible agency -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers --...