New Media

Overhauled Apple TV unveiled

Apple has announced the arrival of its revamped Apple TV device, confirming that it will take a cut-price and small-size approach in a renewed bid to convince viewers to integrate… Read on >>

New Media,Online,Top Stories September 2nd 2010 — 10:43 pm

UK: The Times’ iPad app hits more turbulence

London’s The Times has run into more problems with its application for the Apple iPad, telling subscribers that they will have a third successive month of free access as an… Read on >>

International Media,New Media August 24th 2010 — 8:33 pm

Seven catches up on PS3 access

The Seven Network has announced an agreement with Sony to bring its online catch-up service to the company’s Playstation 3 devices.
Seven said today that its Yahoo!7 catch-up service, PLUS7,… Read on >>

New Media,Online August 18th 2010 — 12:26 pm

SBS: We can’t afford unmetered content plans

The multicultural broadcaster SBS has pulled out of plans with internet service providers (ISPs) to provide unmetered access to its online video content, saying that it cannot afford the implementation… Read on >>

New Media,Online August 17th 2010 — 2:12 pm

UK: ITV planning to sue Apple over “iTV” branding

UK television broadcaster ITV is reportedly planning to sue Apple over the naming of its rumoured relaunched set top box, rumoured to be named “iTV“.
Apple’s set top box Apple… Read on >>

International Media,New Media,Online August 14th 2010 — 12:13 pm

Murdoch: iPad is a ‘game-changer’

Rupert Murdoch has described the Apple iPad as a “game-changer” in the way that news is produced and consumed, claiming that it would help to revitalise the news media on… Read on >>

New Media,Online August 5th 2010 — 1:20 pm

iPad users are rich, selfish, uncaring pigs: survey

A survey of over 20,000 web users has claimed that iPad owners tend to be members of so-called “selfish elites”: more likely to be wealthy and sophisticated, but with a propensity… Read on >>

New Media,Online July 31st 2010 — 6:53 pm

ABC iView goes live on IPTV service

The ABC‘s online catch-up service iView is now available on Sony‘s Bravia range of televisions, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems, having gone live at the weekend.
iView can be… Read on >>

New Media,Online July 26th 2010 — 9:00 am

Review: iPad Newspaper Apps

Just as Apple commence the second round of international releases of the iPad, The Spy Report has reviewed a number of the newspaper apps that have been launched.
PressReader (Free,… Read on >>

New Media,Print July 23rd 2010 — 3:38 pm

SMH hits the iPad app store

The long awaited iPad application for The Sydney Morning Herald has hit the App Store only to receive poor reviews.
The app, based on the existing app Press Reader from… Read on >>

New Media,Print July 20th 2010 — 8:43 pm

UK: Visits to The Times fall by two-thirds

London’s The Times has seen the number of visits to its website fall by two-thirds since it began implementing its paywall plans, but the drop is far less than some analysts… Read on >>

International Media,New Media,Online July 18th 2010 — 3:22 pm

Fairfax reveal more about SMH iPad app

Fairfax Media will join the growing list of publishers with iPad apps in the coming weeks as the publisher gears up for the release of The Sydney Morning HeraldRead on >>

New Media,Print July 12th 2010 — 7:24 pm

YouTube investing $5m in video-makers

YouTube has announced that it will be giving out $US5 million ($A5.8 million) in grants to the video site’s most promising uploaders, in an effort to improve the quality of… Read on >>

Business,New Media,Online July 10th 2010 — 7:20 pm

US: CNN sacks senior Middle East editor

The news broadcaster CNN has sacked one of its senior editors, following a Twitter update in which she expressed “respect” for a prominent Lebanese Shi’ite cleric who died earlier this… Read on >>

International Media,Journalism,New Media,Online,Politics,Resignations / Terminations July 8th 2010 — 9:41 pm

Telstra teams with Foxtel to launch Pay TV on T-Box

Telstra has confirmed it will join Foxtel to bring the pay-television service to Telstra’s T-Box internet television platform, which was launched last month, iTWire reports.
Chief executive of Australia’s largest… Read on >>

New Media,Telecommunications July 7th 2010 — 12:59 pm