The Times paywall down as paper hits 16-year low

News International has sent emails to thousands of people who earlier visited the website of its newspaper The Sun, about a data breach which led to the leak of their personal information.According to the International Business...

Hactivism collective Anonymous appears to be learning some small degree of responsibility, announcing that it won't be releasing e-mails obtained from The Sun and being similarly circumspect about an apparent breach of NATO's...

Beleaguered mobile phone maker Nokia is apparently on the verge of cutting the price of its handsets by as much as 10 per cent in a bid to boost its sales globally, the second time this rumour has surfaced since the beginning of...

LulzSec members have struck again; this time, the victim is the website of The Sun, the UK's best-selling daily newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International.Users who visited the Sun’s website, were...

News International is to kill off its sleazy mud-raking scandal rag the News of the World in the wake of the mobile phone hacking scandal that has dragged the paper even deeper into the gutter it has inhabited for decades. This...

UPDATE, 10:23 GMT: The paywall has been reinstated. Still, nice to see there wasn't really anything there that you can't get for free from The Guardian - except the bile, that is. The paywall surrounding The Times newspaper's...

Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is to buy Wi-Fi hotspot network The Cloud, according to a report published yesterday in The Sunday Times. BSkyB has yet to comment on the report - but it seems unlikely that the Sunday Times would...

UK Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has been accused of sitting on a report from media watchdog Ofcom which recommended that News Corporation's takeover bid for broadcaster BSkyB should be referred to the Competition...

Rupert Murdoch is readying a news service tailored for tablet PCs. And, according to some reports, Apple messiah Steve Jobs, will give the organ his blessing at an unveiling at the end of this month. Jobs' mooted involvement...

Rupert Murdoch's online newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times have joined up with mobile provider Three to offer the network's mobile broadband customers three months free access to their paywalled sites. News of the deal...

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has abandoned its eagerly awaited online news aggregation platform, code-named 'Project Alesia', just weeks before it was due to launch. The UK-based project was to aggregate content from British...

UK newspaper The Times has lost 66 per cent of its online readership following the introduction of a paywall, the Guardian has reported.Rupert Mudroch, head of News International, the media group that controls The Times last year...

In what we suspect is an early shot of many, News Corp's Dow Jones has sued a site called Briefing.com claiming "hot news misappropriation". Dow Jones accused the site of "piracy" in its complaint to a federal court in New...

The online versions of the Times and the Sunday times newspapers will be hidden away behind paywalls from June and readers will have to pay either £1 per day or £2 per week to access their content. News International...