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When it comes to news, the web is an important source, but it's not the biggest one, at least not in the UK. TV still takes the crown, but the gap is getting smaller. In fact, given the current trends, the web will become the primary source of news for most people within a couple of years.
The Oliver & Ohlbaum ... |
29 December 2011
08:51 GMT |
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One of Google strengths and touting points has been its reliance on algorithms for getting things done. But this is one of its biggest weaknesses as well and it nowhere more apparent than in Google News. Which is why Google started experimenting with the idea of having human editors that would pick stories to be show... |
5 August 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Google has abandoned a project which aimed to digitize the newspaper archives of the world. The ambitious project was right up Google's alley, it's already digitizing millions of books, but the company has decided to end all efforts and focus on other technologies and tools.The company sent an email to publ... |
20 May 2011
10:31 GMT |
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According to a new poll, it would appear that the Internet has finally moved ahead of the television set as the main source of information for young adults. TV still leads the way for adults and seniors, but the Internet is making considerable headway in these subgroups as well. The investigation that arrived at this... |
5 January 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Despite some less than impressive initial results, tablets are still the best bet publishers have of translating their sales model to the digital world. So the fact that Google may be looking to have a sort of digital newsstand in place for the next major release of Android, which is said to focus on tablet devices, ... |
3 January 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Amazon has just announced a series of new features set to be added to its Kindle applications soon, including the possibility to read Kindle newspapers and magazines on any device that has a Kindle app available for it. With Kindle, users can benefit from fast access to Amazon's library of books, offering users... |
25 October 2010
08:26 GMT |
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Google and news organizations haven’t been seeing eye to eye very much lately. Some traditional news outlets have gone as far as accusing the company of ‘stealing’ their content with Google News or even through the search engine. For its part, Google has tried to make peace, though it hasn’t b... |
18 June 2010
11:44 GMT |
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Just like with almost everything, the Internet has had quite an effect on the way people consume news. And it's not just that they have another avenue for news, the very way people get their news has changed in the past years. The latest Pew Research Center Internet study shows that US consumers get their news f... |
1 March 2010
09:21 GMT |
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There's been plenty of ink spilled, so to speak, over the whole Google versus newspapers debacle yet, for the most part, the search giant has been calm and unperturbed satisfied to issue out the occasional “you can always de-index” argument. Not anymore, it seems, as Google is on an all-out offensive... |
3 December 2009
12:03 GMT |
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The whole news publishers versus Google debacle keeps on going and, for the most part, Google is sitting on the sidelines. Once in a while it responds, indirectly, to the accusations by underlining the benefits it provides news sources. And to show that it's not completely deaf to the criticism, Google is now ch... |
2 December 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Old media giants have been clamoring on about how search engines, Google being the biggest target, have been making money for years on the backs of the hard-working news agencies and how they're not going to stand for it any longer. Of course, there's a great reply to this, one that Google itself made on nu... |
9 November 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Earlier today, Google unveiled a new, experimental project aimed at making it easier for users to read and find new news stories by allowing them to 'flip' through articles with an intuitive and fast interface. While the idea may be interesting enough, the implementation left somewhat to be desired. But, al... |
15 September 2009
11:41 GMT |
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Newspapers have a habit of blaming Google for their financial troubles, especially online. And, since they can't or won't learn the most basic economic principles and revenue models online, Google is trying to help them make money or, at least, get them to warm up to the company. Google has just unveiled a ... |
15 September 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Seeing how the newspapers haven't been able to come up with something to start generating some real revenue online, with income from the paper versions going way south as well, but that they are hell-bent on blaming everyone else but themselves for their troubles, Google took it upon itself to offer them a solut... |
10 September 2009
06:13 GMT |
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The AP has set out to be the sheriff in the Wild West of the Internet, at least when it comes to regulating news content, and to save the newspaper business and journalism in general at the same time – not an easy task for any organization, even for one of the biggest news networks in the world. Now some detail... |
3 August 2009
06:24 GMT |
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To say that the newspaper business has seen better days is an understatement. With readership and advertising money dropping significantly over the years many publications are going bust while others struggle to stay afloat. So it's understandable if bigwigs in charge aren't happy and it's also somewha... |
24 July 2009
09:17 GMT |
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The future may not look bright for the newspaper business, and much of the blame lays with online publications and the move from paper to digital distribution. Newspapers are seeing big drops in advertising revenues, but an unlikely savior may come from the same online businesses that have so far been seen as the ene... |
23 June 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Gamers and videogame industry analysts might be a bit depressed when looking at the rather disappointing NPD Group numbers for May and at the slump in sales that the worldwide economic downturn has sparked all over the world but it seems that videogames are still important and are getting even more so as time goes by... |
17 June 2009
04:34 GMT |
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A new research from the University of Missouri School of Journalism shows that traditional media still holds a better position than citizen journalism, in professionalism, comprehensiveness, as well as in broadcast and distribution technology.Over the recent months, the deteriorating financial condition in which news... |
9 April 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Over recent months, the search engine giant Google has come under increased attacks from news agencies and newspapers, which wonder if the company's news aggregator is not a breach of copyright, and if the company has the right to take all of its materials and index them in its engine. They are also pondering th... |
8 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Partially encouraged by the seemingly inevitable fall of newspapers to the advantage of the Internet- and TV-dominated news scenes, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota, the NewsCloud news aggregator and The Minnesota Daily student newspaper currently seeks to discover new ways to get people involved ... |
31 March 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Leading journalism experts are currently trying to alienate fears that professional coverage of significant events is about to disappear. Many people fear that the downfall of newspapers, caused by both a massive surge in Internet user numbers and the current economic crisis, will mean a complete re-shifting in the ... |
15 March 2009
06:17 GMT |
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The fact that the media influences people's perception on things is a fact known by both the outlets and the persons who watch TV daily. Still, it would appear that not many filter the information they get from their television sets, in that they tend to do exactly what they are told by various anchors. The same... |
5 March 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Major newspapers in the US seem, to their praise, less than willing to just submit to the Internet in terms of reaching the masses, and have made that abundantly clear on Monday, when a group titled the “Newspaper Project” featured ads on the front pages of publications such as The New York Times and The ... |
3 February 2009
10:14 GMT |
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The inevitable downfall of newspapers in the US should come as a surprise to no one, especially given the fact that most major publications are already struggling to cope with the effects of the global financial crisis, while smaller ones have already filed for bankruptcy. Low advertising revenues registered over the... |
16 January 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Once considered to be a near “sacred” spot, the first page of the famous New York Times newspaper is now opened to commercial ads, despite the fact that it did without them for decades. This concession, which the company management made in front of the economic downturn, goes on to prove the effects that ... |
6 January 2009
02:54 GMT |
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The Yahoo Newspapers - Consortium deal that started out as a means to create the most comprehensive advertising network in the online industry (no, really!) initially had 150 newspapers as partners besides the Sunnyvale based company. Now the numbers grew to 555 and it's nigh a year since it all began.Duncan Ril... |
19 November 2007
05:38 GMT |
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