• British Photo Mag Rakes In IPad Subscribers
    One year after launching on the iPad the British Journal of Photography has as many subscribers as it does in print. The print edition has a monthly sale of 8,000, of which 4,000 are subscribers. Now, one year on, an equivalent number of people have signed up for six-month or year-long subscriptions to the quarterly bespoke iPad edition - according to publisher Incisive Media. They say the app shell, which includes a certain amount of free content, has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times.
  • Facebook Photo Recognition Tool 'De-faced'
    Facebook is shutting down its facial-recognition photo tool in Europe, following objections from the regulator. The facial recognition tool is no longer available to new Facebook users and existing templates will be removed by October 15. The move follows a review in December 2011 by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) which said that Facebook's "tag suggest" feature contravened the European Union data privacy laws.
  • Maynards Candy Launches Stunt Campaign
    The flavour is full-bodied, fruity, and aromatic, with a rather chewy finish. Kraft Canada's candy line, Maynards, is taking the conventions of wine marketing and using them for its somewhat less high-end product: wine gums. A new video shows a stunt campaign the brand conducted at a wine expo.
  • All In The Family: Murdoch's Son May Run Fox TV
    News Corp shareholders have reacted angrily to news that James Murdoch could soon run the media giant's flagship Fox TV channel. The son of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch was heavily criticised last week by British regulators over his role in the hacking scandal. One dissident shareholder called the news a "slap in the face for shareholders, not to mention victims of the hacking scandal."
  • Counter-Terrorism Group Considering Social Media Surveillance
    A leaked document from a project set up by the European Commission to fight terrorism online reveals suggestions for wide-ranging surveillance. The "recommendations" advise that ISPs should be held liable for not making "reasonable" efforts to use technological surveillance to identify terrorist use of the Internet. They also urge companies to filter employees' Internet connections and say that "it must be legal for police to patrol on social media."
  • Facebook Suspends Facial Recognition In Europe
    Facebook is deleting facial recognition data collected from European users and plans to terminate the feature there soon. Since 2011, the Ireland-based Data Protection Commissioner has led an investigation into Facebook to see if the social media giant complied with European privacy laws. The DPC initially responded to complaints by a user group in Austria.
  • Broadcaster To Cease Some Russian Radio Programming
    U.S.-funded media outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty says it will stop medium-wave radio broadcasting while continuing its online service later this year, to comply with a new Russian law. Senior official Julia Ragona said Saturday that the organization is making the change November 10, when a new Russian law takes effect. The new law will ban radio broadcasting in Russia by companies that are more than 48 percent owned by foreign individuals or legal entities.
  • Santander Bank Launches New Campaign
    Santander, the Spanish-owned high street bank, has rolled out a new campaign promoting the "value" it offers customers. A new TV ad, which breaks Sept. 23, sees the brand visit the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury, talking to local people about the value credentials of its products. Santander branch staff are shown using Santander's 'Cashback Calculator' digital tool to reveals how much they could potentially save in a year with that brand's 123 Current Account and 123 Credit Card.
  • OMMA Mobile Finds New Context in London
    After five years of OMMA Mobile shows in the U.S. (we started on the very day the iPhone launched in 2007), we finally made it across the pond for our first event this week. Significantly, we had to change our own context to get a day of insights that revolved principally around the potential of "context" in marketing.
  • Swiss Kids Tops For Mobile Surfing
    In no other country in Europe do more children surf the Web using their mobile phones than in Switzerland. As a study by the University of Zurich shows, children in Switzerland are adept at handling social media -- they don't surf the Net extensively and only four percent have set their social network profile to "public."
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