e bump in viewers who played back the moment where M.I.A. extended her middle finger during Madonna’s performance of “Give Me All Your Luvin’” on Sunday night’s show. Tara Maitra of Tivo said the company would check to see if more people play back the moment on Monday after there was publicity about it. Tivo has 2 million customers in the U.S. The NFL blamed NBC for being not quick enough to censor the gesture, while…
that is suffering from the long-term decline of print newspapers to stave off a threat to plans to expand in television: “Talk about a nuclear option,” said a “gobsmacked” Steven Barnett, professor of communications at Westminster University. But some analysts predicted Murdoch would make The Sun, the tabloid daily that is Britain’s best-selling newspaper, a seven-day operation and that the demise of the News of th…
alls, he took matters into his owns hands, teaming up with software engineers to create his own application – aptly called DropCall Eliminator. As has been well documented, ATT’s 3G network and the iPhone device have a compatibility conflict which causes dropped calls (As reported by Gizmodo, “When people have a hard time getting their calls through on the carrier’s 3G network, ATT tech support tells customers to try making cal…
gh the gates of his east London headquarters holding up the last edition of the best-selling newspaper he had closed only hours earlier in an attempt to contain the crisis. It was not clear what meetings he had planned in the coming hours. Best known for its lurid headlines exposing the misdemeanors of the rich, royal and famous, the News of the World said simply “Thank You Goodbye” over a montage of some of its most celebrated spla…
(Reuters) – Here are the main events in the long-running phone-hacking scandal which brought down the 168-year old News of the World tabloid on Thursday. The scandal comes at a time when parent firm News Corp is seeking to take over UK pay-TV firm BSkyB in its biggest ever acquisition, worth around $14 billion. 2000 – Rebekah Wade is appointed editor of Britain’s best-selling Sunday tabloid News of the World. She begins a campaign …
children, relatives of those killed in the 2005 attacks on London’s transport network and families of soldiers killed in action have triggered a huge public outcry. The government has received more than 135,000 public complaints against the deal. “This is the most serious political crisis in a generation (for the Murdochs) but as a business crisis it is immense and immensely more significant for the Murdochs than the political cris…