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Online
The Definition Of Evil: Microsoft’s Search Wars Hurt Us All
5:32AM Brian Lam | Microsoft may pay Murdoch to de-list from Google. If it happens, it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if all the world’s content is exclusive to some engines and we have to search them all to find what we want? Hell! More »
Online
Microsoft Might Pay Murdoch To De-List From Google
12:21AM Danny Allen | Last week I joked that Microsoft paying big sites to de-list from Google would never fly – but it just might happen. We know Rupert Murdoch is thinking about de-listing News Corp content, and now Microsoft may provide an incentive. More »
Entertainment
What A Paid Hulu Could Look Like
6:06AM John Herrman | AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp’s Chase Carey—that “It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online”—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead. More »
Entertainment
Hulu’s Free Glory Days Are Officially Numbered
6:56AM John Herrman | Hulu, at the behest of its co-parent News Corp, is going to start charging for content in 2010. This is not so good. More »
Software
Wall Street Journal iPhone And BlackBerry App Free Lunch Is Over
2:49AM Matt Buchanan | Well, this is a shame, if inevitable: The Wall Street Journal will soon start charging non-subscribers two US bucks a week to use its iPhone app, which is currently free (and better than the NYT app). Even subscribers will have to pony up an extra buck a week for the privilege. More »
Online
Will Hulu Become a Pay Service?
7:50PM John Herrman | For us Hulu-deprived antipodeans, this is a bit of a non-issue. But nontheless interesting, asked if Hulu would ever charge for content, Jonathan Miller recently said, “in my opinion the answer could be yes.” Who, exactly, is Jonathan Miller? The Chief Digital Officer of News Corp, which owns 27% of Hulu. Ha ha, shit. More »
Gadgets
Rupert Murdoch Investing In a Mysterious Colour eBook Reader
11:15PM John Herrman | Rupert Murdoch, News Corp potentate and noted evil person, yesterday announced his company is “investing in a new device that has a bigger screen [than the Kindle], [and] four colors,” adding, “THE KINDLE MUST PERISH.” More »
Press
News Corp. Hires Hacker to Break Into Dish Satellite Network, Steal Security Codes for Pirate Cards
8:30AM Matt Buchanan | This is classic corporate espionage/sabotage at its finest. Dish Network is accusing News Corp.—which used to have a 39 percent stake in DirecTV and still provides its security tech—of hiring hacker Christopher Tarnovsky to break into Dish’s network, steal the security codes, and use them to make pirated cards to flood the black market. It sounds insane, but Tarnovsky admitted in court he was paid James Bond villain style, with US$20,000 cash payments mailed from Canada hidden inside “electronic devices.” More »
Home
News Corp Set-Top Box Becomes DVR: Just Add External Hard Drive
8:55AM Wilson Rothman | How much simpler can it get? You take the HD satellite set-top box already sitting in someone’s living room, perform a quick firmware update, plug an external hard drive into the USB jack and voila, it’s a bleedin’ DVR. Voila is right, though, since this News Corp-owned software fix is currently only available to Canal+ satellite customers in France. Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s no such thing for News Corp’s DirecTV customers in the US, right? Nah, letting people keep their existing hardware is so un-American. It’s bad for business, I tells ya! Press release after jump. More »
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