Computer Business Review
Programmes downloaded will be available up to 30 days on mobile devices and do not need a WI-FI or 3G signal. Once a user presses play to view a programme, they are able to watch it for seven more days. The feature also allows users to watch programmes on their mobile when abroad. The feature is currently available on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices and will be rolled out to Android devices soon.
Fierce Wireless
The disruptive French mobile operator Free Mobile has attracted 3.6 million mobile phone customers after only six months in operation, according to its parent company, Iliad. The company said Free Mobile has already captured 5.4% of the French mobile market, and believes it can achieve significantly more. "When we look at the wave of subscribers we've gotten on mobile and fixed, we have hints telling us that it won't just stop from one day to the next," Iliad CFO Thomas Reynaud said in an interview with Bloomberg.
Press Gazette
Telegraph Media Group is supplying its journalists with a "backpack device" to stream content. TMG today announced a "substantial new investment" in live streaming facilities that would allow it to broadcast live video footage on an "unprecedented scale". Those new facilities include a "backpack device allowing high quality live video to be sent over 3G networks", a permanent circuit from BT Tower, and feeds from the Associated Press.
Women's Wear Daily
Vogue.co.uk has revamped its online presence, with a new site that launches today, ahead of the spring 2013 show season. British Vogue's editor Alexandra Shulman described the new site as taking a "more elegant visual approach," which she said is closer to the experience of reading the print magazine. She noted it would continued to "capitalize on the timeliness, newsworthiness and excitement of the Web." Indeed, the new site makes images the focus of its homepage.
The Telegraph
Although the world wide web has been around for less than a generation, Dr Christian Montag from the University of Bonn, said they had found a gene in people who could not drag themselves away. Most were women. Dr Montag said that, biologically speaking, internet addiction had the same genetic cause as smoking addiction. He said: "Internet addiction is not a figment of our imagination. Researchers and therapists are increasingly closing in on it."
The Guardian
The author of The Thick of It has written a pilot episode about the world of social media for an American television company. Armando Iannucci is in discussions with HBO, the cable company that made The Wire andThe Sopranos. He tells Andrew Rawnsley, the Observer's chief political commentator, in the New Review that he is unlikely to write another series of The Thick of It and plans to focus his attention on the new centre of power in California's Silicon Valley.
Red Rocket Media
Samsung has enlisted paralympic athletes to create social media content for the brands latest campaign, marketingweek.co.uk reports. The 50 selected athletes will create blogs and videos, using Samsung's Galaxy Note tablet, for part of the brand's 'Sport Doesn't Care Who You Are- Everyone Can Take Part- global Olympic campaign. The content will be published on Samsung's Olympic hub, social media platforms, as well as the International Paralympic Committee and Locog sites.
Journalism.co.uk
The list of finalists for the 2012 Online Journalism Awards has been announced. Winners revealed and honoured at the Online News Association (ONA) conference next month. The Guardian is a finalist in the 'explanatory reporting' category for large news outlets for Gay Rights, State by State (and Beyond), which is by the Guardian in America interactive team. Storify and NewsCred are both finalists in the award for 'technical innovation in the service of digital journalism'. The full list of finalists is at this link.
Internet Retailer
Pluggedin.co.uk, a U.K.-based electronics and technology news site, wants tech enthusiasts to find its site and past visitors to keep coming back to it. And so it's posting content that the Google News search algorithm likes. The strategy is helping Pluggedin get picked up by Google News, allowing it to expand its audience and attract more traffic.
Computer Business Review
It will be used for listening music through the internet on TV sets. Toshiba, LG Electronics and Royal Philips Electronics have teamed up to develop a unified system for listening music, watching videos and playing games through the internet on TV sets. The television makers are expecting that the mobile phone users who are accessing online content may like to access it through big screen on TV.
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