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Ubiquitous broadband network connections and digital devices that permeate every situation of daily life will allow people to use information, communication and services at work, at home and on the move, says a report by one of the world’s leading organisations for the newspaper and media industries. A screen shows Internet services available through an broadband-connected digital video recorder...

LONDON - The Independent and Independent on Sunday bounced back from a bad December with 10.4% and 24.6% monthly circulation increases respectively in January, according to the latest national newspaper ABC figures. Every paper enjoyed the traditional increase in sales from December to January, with the exception of the Daily Express and the People. The daily newspaper market consisted of 11,957...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Television on the wane? Not according to a forecast released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research, which projects that the nation's TV households will grow 47 percent to 163.7 million by 2050. Nielsen pegged the number of television households in January at 111.4 million using Claritas demographic estimates. But armed with U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) hasn’t much patience with the doom and gloom pundits who constantly report that newspapers are a dying industry, so this week it has produced some updated statistics to show the good news that newspaper circulation globally is growing and new newspapers are being launched far more frequently than may have been thought. But at the risk of sounding like one...

MUMBAI: More than half of communications industry executives believe that Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) can generate significant revenue within the first three years of service, according to findings of a survey released by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey of nearly 350 executives from telecom, broadcasting and media companies across 46 countries in the US, Europe...

For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The world's oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace. The PoIT, which began in 1645, published its last print issue on Dec. 29 but is continuing on the Internet. 9Sven Nackstrant/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) The...

Delhi now has a tabloid – the product of a joint venture between HT Media and the Times of India Group. Metro Now, a 48-page morning tabloid, rolled out on February 5. Intended to cater to the new metro travelling class, fast emerging on the lines of Mumbai’s local train commuters who have little time and elbow space to read through a regular size paper, this will be the first morning tabloid...

The Wall Street Journal is looking to launch its website in a range of foreign languages as the 118-year-old newspaper, owned by Dow Jones & Company, seeks to bolster its position outside its core US market. The Wall Street Journal's publisher Gordon Crovitz also admitted that the company would be interested in buying the Financial Times should its owner Pearson ever put it up for sale, something...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The newspaper industry this week announced a $75 million marketing campaign to declare its relevance in the Internet age as advertising revenues were flat, buffeted by major mergers and a wounded domestic auto industry. It's the second year in a row that the Newspaper Association of America has advertised directly to its advertisers, trying to change the perception that the...

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - When a lovesick German got marooned in Montana after typing the wrong destination in his Internet plane booking, he sold his story to a popular paper and -- as Germany's "biggest fool" -- earned cash to try again. Kai Diekmann (C), editor-in-chief of Germany's Bild newspaper, selects pictures with picture editors in Hamburg January 16, 2007. Bild was not the first in...