Media - Internet

My broadband connection went down earlier this year, and I was briefly forced to use a dial-up Internet service provider. I considered which of the icons to click on my desktop: “Free 6 Month AOL Membership,” or “EarthLink,” or “NetZero First Month Free!” I went for the 30-day free trial on EarthLink, and up popped a headline-news crawl. This provoked something of a flashback to 1997, when this...

ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to comply with the Supreme Court order of filtering certain websites containing blasphemous content “at all costs”, the Pakistan Telecommunication has blocked access to thousands of vital websites and email servers. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) passed on the same orders to the PTCL for action and denial of access to such derogatory websites.mWhile the PTA...

News and media websites were identified as being among the fastest growing UK sites experiencing a 28 per cent growth this January, according to figures released by Hitwise. Both the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian Unlimited websites have also reported a positive start to 2007 with the Guardian confirming a record number of visitors in January (15.7 million visitors confirmed by ABC). And just...

The Internet is spreading across the country, and newspaper websites too seem to be making hay off it. The Web editions of Indian newspapers are now read even in smaller towns, and not just in the metros of the country. A recent study has found that their readership has also spread out to as many as 62 countries, in addition to India. Columnists are read by 42 per cent of the English newspaper...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top White House candidates unveiled their own YouTube video channels on Thursday, pushing the 18-month-old Web video-sharing site even farther into the U.S. political mainstream. Google Inc.'s YouTube, best known for short, amusing videos made by users at home, says You Choose '08 ( http://www.youtube.com/youchoose) will allow candidates to control how they exchange views with...

As many newspaper publishers struggle with how to provide access to their printed archives without the content being exploited, small-market publishers are lining up to have their archives digitised and made online-accessible. The SmallTownPapers archive, which includes current editions and those printed back to the 1800s, is available for online search through a distribution partnership with...

One hundred and fifty-five Magazine Digital Initiatives were announced in 2006, according to research conducted by Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and released Wednesday at MPA’s third “Magazines 24/7” Digital Conference. Time.com was adjudged as the best website in the business/news category at the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) conference. Among the new initiatives identified in 2006...

The Associated Press (AP) has entered into an agreement with Voxant Inc to distribute a selection of its news stories, videos and photographs to blogs and other websites through Voxant's advertising-supported syndication network. Voxant, a startup company based in Reston, US, has deals in place to syndicate news from a number of major outlets including Reuters, Agence France-Press, the Canadian...

The proliferation of people posting their views on the internet has caused Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, to rethink opening up its FT.com website. Chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino, announcing a strong 19% rise in annual profits to £502m, admitted that FT.com is likely to continue to rely on subscriptions, retaining its so-called "chargewall". "As debate online has become more...

Microsoft Corp and three newspaper/magazine companies have unveiled a software service that allows readers to download stories and read them even when not connected to the Internet. The News Reader, which is now available to readers of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, enables readers to automatically transfer a sampling of stories from the newspaper's website onto their computers by clicking on a...