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LoveFilm Seals Deal With 20th Century Fox
PaidContent.org
More bad news for Netflix's U.K. operation: Amazon-owned rival Lovefilm has signed another one of those pesky exclusive content deals, this time with Twentieth Century Fox. This comes less than a month after Lovefilm signed up Universal, also on a multi-year basis. Similar deals were already in place with Warner Bros, Sony Pictures and others, and now Lovefilm's customers can look forward to streaming the likes of X-Men: First Class from March next year, while Netflix's can't. The TV part of the deal kicks in earlier, with Buffy and more becoming available next month.
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Supplementing Video: Guardian Hands Out IPhones
Journalism.co.uk
The Guardian has given 20 of its general reporters iPhones in a bid to "take advantage" of the latest mobile photography and video technology to "supplement" the news outlet's existing video output. The trial saw Guardian reporters handed iPhones a few weeks ago, and since then around eight or nine pieces of output have resulted from this, according to national editor Dan Roberts. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk he said the Guardian has been talking about "trying to equip more of our news reporters with iPhones" for a while, and is using this trial to decide whether it is something they want to roll out more widely.
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Finally, Google Enters UK TV Arena
The Telegraph
The first hardware, made by Sony, will offer direct access to the internet, and Google hopes it will also encourage software developers to write apps for televisions as well as for mobile phones and tablets. Google TV has struggled in America, and the interface has been redesigned since it was first unveiled. Special versions of YouTube, Twitter and some websites have now been created for the TV interface, and Google hopes more users will rent films through the new service. A company spokesman said that internet on television needed to be more of a "lean back experience" than it is on a computer.
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Jimmy Wales Backs Accused Copyright Pirate
Digital Spy
The Wikipedia co-founder has lent his support to British student Richard O'Dwyer in an online petition. Richard O'Dwyer created the TVShack.net website, which did not host any copyrighted material but linked to other sites that did. The 24-year-old was arrested over the site in 2011, but will not face any prosecution in the UK. However, the US has stated that because some American citizens used the site, he must be extradited to face criminal charges around copyright infringement, which could see him spend up to 10 years in a U.S. prison.
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Report: Guardian To Go Online Only By '13
The Drum
A report by The Sunday Times has claimed that The Guardian is to close its printed edition by next year has seen rumours spread across social media platforms and reports pop up at online media outlets. Despite the claims printed by The Sunday Times, most are sceptical that such a move could be implemented by next year, despite the continued losses by the company as a result of its printing costs, expected to be around GBP45 million for last year alone.
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Opinsy Breaks Cover As Beta
TechCrunch
Mike Butcher reports: "Ankur Shah was a co-founder of the Techlightenment company which was acquired by Experian, the credit reporting service. But he's now onto new and interesting things. That project now launches as Opinsy, a new platform which, broadly speaking, enables people to build communities and followings around their opinions, beliefs and ideas. Opinsy breaks cover as an invite only beta today. The launch is ironically timed and 'on trend' - we saw the launch of Menshn only last week, and Amen is the hot mobile app around strong opinions right now."
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