Tag: news

Sky launches mobile TV service for 3 customers

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If you’re dead keen on squinting at a tiny phone screen to see watch TV, and a 3 subscriber, then you’ll be excited by the announcement this morning that Sky’s Mobile TV service will be coming to a handset near you in the near future. You’ll get Sky Sports channels, Sky News, At The Races and CNN, for a monthly fee of £5, or a daily fee of £1.

It seems that you’ll need a data package to receive the content, too, which will set you back £2.50 a month for 10MB. I suspect, however, that you’ll need substantially more than 10MB if you’re going to watch the service for more than a few minutes.

Duncan Geere Mobile phones

HubDub launches in the UK – make money betting on the news

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Fancy a bet on news events, but aren’t keen on losing cold hard cash in these tough economic times? HubDub’s what you need. The fake-money news-betting site has been going strong in the US since February this year, but given that they’re based in Edinburgh, it was only a matter of time before they expanded to the UK.

The site’s live right now, and you can bet virtual Hubdub dollars on the outcome of such important factors as who’s going to get Christmas #1, whether Laura White from X-Factor will make a comeback, or who the next Dr Who will be. There’s slightly more high-brow questions too, like whether inflation will hit 6% by the year’s end or who’ll win the next election in the UK…

Duncan Geere Startup Of The Day, Web 2.0

Steve Jobs "heart attack" claim was done by a kid, on the internet, for a laugh

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News that Steve Jobs had suffered a “heart attack” swirled around the internet at the beginning of the month, triggering a 5.4% drop in Apple’s share price and causing panic among Apple fans and quite a few tears from more emotional hardware enthusiasts. Only he didn’t have a heart attack. It was a lie. A joke.

The not particularly hilarious “joke” was posted as news by an 18-year-old on “citizen journalist” site iReport, triggering a full investigation by the US government’s Securities and Exchange Commission after it hit Apple’s share price rather hard…

Gary Cutlack Computers, iPhone, iPod, Laptops / Notebooks, Mobile phones, MP3 players, Software, Web 2.0, Websites

Yahoo's computers link to pictures of "underage girls", humans intervene

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In a gaffe which Yahoo’s computers couldn’t care less about, but which has caused some embarrassment for humans in the company, an automated system linked a news article to Flickr pictures tagged with the keywords “underage girls”.

It’s understandable how an amoral computer could make the association — the article concerned Ashley Dupré — however it turned up some rather dubious images that most people would not have expected to see linked to from a serious news article…

Andy Merrett Internet, Websites

BBC to revamp news and sport websites

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BBC Journalism has announced that it’s given the News and Sport websites a new look, with phase one of the revamp launching next week.

Pushing its multimedia offerings more strongly, the new websites will include higher profile promotion of the new embedded video service, more emphasis placed on breaking news and live events, wider page designs, and “more ambitious use of pictures”, whatever that means…

Andy Merrett Websites