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Submission + - Times UK paywall loses 4m readers, makes money

Submitted by Mr_Silver on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @08:07AM

Mr_Silver writes: TechCrunch is reporting that The Times (a UK based newspaper, owned by News Corporation) lost 4 million readers since introducing the paywall in June 2010. However this isn't bad news as Erick Schonfeld speculates that their revenue would have increased from $200,000 to $800,000 per month thanks to the reduced visitors generating 2 to 4 times more revenue in subscription fees than the ad revenue ever did. Looks like a paywall could be a viable business case after all.

Submission + - Vodafone UK upsets mobile content developers

Submitted by Mr_Silver on Friday September 21, 2007 @10:07AM

Mr_Silver writes: In a story on Techcrunch, Vodafone UK's content adaptation engine (which reformats HTML for small screen devices, such as mobile phones) has started causing problems for developers who rely on the user-agent and ua-prof headers to do the reformatting themselves or send specialised content for that device. This chorus of disapproval is being lead by Luca Passani who develops WURFL. You can find several threads on the Vodafone Betavine portal from people expressing their frustrations over the policy.

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