The Pirate Bay claimed to be “getting back up! Stronger than ever!” this evening after crumpling under a DDoS attack for most of today.
The draining of the Pirate Bay sparked speculation that it was a victim of Anonymous, after the torrent site slated the hacktivist collective last week.
The BBC will be dropping eight of its Red Button channels after an Olympic splurge, focusing on IPTV content instead of the alternative electronic programme guide that the Red Button had become.
Retravision Southern today held a staff meeting to guarantee entitlements to employees should the company fall into administration or receivership. This comes as news emerges that the company has failed to make payment to suppliers.
Japanese geniuses have maintained a 3Gbit/s radio link at 542GHz, opening up more of the electromagnetic spectrum to the voracious appetite of wireless data.
Donna Summer, whose music dominated the 1970s disco era, has died of cancer at the age of 63, leaving a legacy of hit singles like Love to Love You Baby, Last Dance and Bad Girls.
Summer, who won five Grammys and sold more than 130 million records worldwide, died surrounded by her family in Naples, Florida, publicist Brian Edwards said.
He said she died of cancer, but he declined to comment on a report by celebrity website TMZ that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
TMZ reported she contracted it after inhaling toxic particles following the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York.
"Early this morning, surrounded by family, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith," the singer's family said in a statement.
While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy.
"While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy."
She was the queen of disco and her pulsing anthems became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, big hair and flashy clothes.
Her career began in Germany where she performed in productions of the shows Hair and Porgy and Bess and worked as a studio session singer.
But it was not until 1975 that she found fame with the moaning vocals and grinding beat of Love to Love You Baby which was a huge, but controversial, hit in European nightclubs.
Summer followed up with a string of other disco tunes in the 70s with hits like Hot Stuff, I Feel Love and Bad Girls, and her 1978 cover version of the ballad MacArthur Park, which was her first number one record in the United States.
In the '80s, she scored a massive hit with She Works Hard For the Money as she sought to branch out of the disco genre.
dmg Radio Australia has announced the launch of a marketing campaign for its new radio stations, smoothfm 95.3 in Sydney and smoothfm 91.5 in Melbourne, from Sunday 20 May.
Michael Bublé, an artist who intrinsically reflects the stations' personality and format, fronts smoothfm’s marketing campaign. He will also be heard on air from 7am on Monday 21 May and will host an hour long show on Saturday mornings from 9am for six weeks.
Bublé stars in the television commercial, with his huge international hit “Haven’t Met You Yet” providing the sound track. See the Sydney TVC below.
Bublé said: “This is a match made in heaven. smoothfm is supporting my music so I’m thrilled to be jumping on board to be part of the station launches. I love Australia and I look forward to seeing you when I’m next down."
smoothfm’s comprehensive marketing campaign will run across television, outdoor, print, magazine, digital and mobile. The campaign is designed to create awareness and sample the station’s unique format via shareable radio players in digital, mobile and a Facebook app.
dmg Radio Australia Group Marketing Director Tony Thomas said: “The association between Michael Bublé and smoothfm is very strong and natural. He clearly reflects the personality of the brand and the music that you’ll hear on air. We are really excited he has joined smoothfm as part of our marketing campaign and our on air line up.”
smoothfm will launch as a unique, contemporary, soft easy listening format, not currently heard in Australia, and will be positioned as “Sydney and Melbourne’s new place to relax”.
The campaign commences in Sydney and Melbourne on Sunday 20 May ahead of the station launch on Monday 21 May.
In a move determined to be in the spirit of the show, Joel Madden’s team member Carmen Smith, will leave The Voice prior to the live shows on Monday.
Carmen has a significant role in the new music video from Guy Sebastian and as such would be deemed to have an unfair advantage as the show moves into the public voting stage as the video is on current release and highly visible.
Nine Network Director of Development Adrian Swift said: "This was not a decision we and Team Joel took lightly. Our priority as we move into the voting period
toward the finale is that all of the artists are on a level playing field. In our business
we are often confronted by these tough decisions and unfortunately at this time it's been decided that it isn't appropriate for her to remain in our competition. We wish Carmen well and thank her for a wonderful contribution to the show thus far."
"It saddens me that I am leaving The Voice earlier much earlier than I had hoped. However, I've loved every minute of it and respect the decision that has been made by Joel and his team", Carmen said. "I've sung on Guy's albums and been part of
his band for many years so I'm thrilled to be in the clip and am looking forward to getting back to work and also working on my solo career".
Google has bet the company on Google+, but it’s dying on its arse. A study by traffic analysts RJ Metrics suggests that public engagement with the social network is weak, and failing to gather momentum.
ACP Magazines today announced that Edwina McCann has resigned as editor of Harper's BAZAAR.
Gerry Reynolds, ACP Publishing Director, said: "Edwina has given us great service over the past three years leading the Harper's BAZAAR team and building an exceptional title. We wish her well in her future career."
Ms McCann will remain in the editor's chair through the publication of the August issue of Harper's BAZAAR.
Mr Reynolds added that ACP had begun the search for Ms McCann's successor and would announce a new editor for the magazine in due course.
The transition period will be managed by ACP Magazines Asia Chief Executive Officer, Julie Sherborn, who has extensive experience editing and managing fashion and lifestyle publications in the region's booming economies.
Over the past 20 years she has successfully launched the Singapore and Malaysian editions of Harper's BAZAAR and Cosmopolitan, the Singapore edition of Elle as well as Asian editions of a range of ACP titles.
Ms Sherborn will be based in Sydney during the transition period.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has imposed an additional licence condition on the broadcasting licence of 2DAY, Today FM Sydney Pty Ltd, the licensee of 2DAY FM.
Following an investigation of the Kyle and Jackie O Show broadcast in November 2011, the ACMA found that Kyle Sandilands’ comments about a female journalist were deeply derogatory and offensive, and amounted to a breach of the Commercial Radio Codes of Practice 2011 (the codes).
The ACMA announced on 27 March 2012, that it had given the licensee a ‘Notice of intention to impose an additional licence condition.’ The licensee has had an opportunity to make representations to the ACMA and the ACMA’s action follows consideration of those representations.
The additional condition elevates the codes’ decency requirement to a condition on the broadcaster’s licence. The relevant code requirement is that ‘program content must not offend generally accepted standards of decency...having regard to the demographic characteristics of the audience of the relevant program’.
The licence condition is not confined to broadcasts by Mr Sandilands of the Kyle & Jackie O Show – it applies to all content broadcast by 2DAY for five years.
Further information about licence conditions is available on the ACMA website.
in their haste to scoop everyone ninemsn mixed the dates up and posted the winner of tonights apprentice on their website at 9.30 & left it to 11.30 last night when it was removed
Can’t find your remote control? No need to worry as Kinect on Xbox 360 customers can now select and watch their favourite FOXTEL on Xbox 360 TV shows and movies with a simple hand gesture or voice command.
With Kinect and FOXTEL on Xbox 360 people can navigate through the new-look user interface and locate sports, movies and TV shows with simple voice commands or the wave of a hand.
FOXTEL is the first broadcaster to provide Australians with voice and gesture control to find and watch their favourite live television programs.
Voice and gesture control via Kinect brings a new dimension to home entertainment and how people control commands like pause, play, fast forward and stop, as well as browsing through menu items.
Jim Rudder, FOXTEL Executive Director of Product said, “FOXTEL on Xbox 360 has a fantastic new look which works seamlessly with Kinect for Xbox 360. We’re excited to offer this new FOXTEL experience combining voice and gesture technology with our latest user-interface to find and watch TV shows and movies exclusive to FOXTEL.”
Kimberley Francis, Head of Xbox, Microsoft, Australia said: “By making technology invisible we make it even easier for people to interact with their entertainment and we are thrilled to now bring this to a live television experience with FOXTEL.
“People have been communicating with voice and gestures for thousands of years and now we are connecting people to their digital entertainment in much the same instinctive way. It won’t matter if you lose the remote control or run out of batteries because you won’t need them.”
Updates will be automatically sent to the Xbox 360 console from May 16, 2012. Users will be asked to accept the updates using the console. Once the updates have been accepted, users will need to... [Read More]
The US Patent and Trademark Office has handed Apple's legal team what may turn out to be a powerful weapon in their ongoing battles against anyone with the temerity to launch products competitive with the iPhone and iPad: a patent on soft keyboards that modify their keys with the tap of an on-screen button.
Telstra is expected to shut down its aggressive IPTV ambitions and hand over its 300,000 plus T-Box customers to Foxtel, once the merger of Foxtel and Austar is completed, sources close to the deal have told The Register.
Game Australia goes into administration: 500 jobs in 92 stores at risk
Following the collapse of its UK parent company less than 2 months ago, Game Australia has filed for administration. While administrators say it is "business as usual", doubts surround the fate of the company's 500 staff.
Source http://www.current.com.au
The assault on The Pirate Bay continues with five Dutch Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ordered by The Court of The Hague to block all access to the file-sharing site.
The ruling comes only a week after a number of British ISPs were given a similar order by the UK High Court.
UK Internet providers Everything Everywhere, O2, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media were told last week to block subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay.
The new ruling was motivated by the site's prolonged activity in providing users with access to content that, in some cases, violates copyright law.
Supporters Circumvent Court-Ordered Block
The court order sparked outrage in the UK. The country's Pirate Party vowed to help The Pirate Bay fans circumvent the mandated ISP efforts to isolate that popular website.
According to recent reports, the proxy server established by the UK Pirate Party to allow access to the Swedish file-sharing site still remains in operation.
On its homepage, the Dutch Pirate Party called the new court order "a slap in the face for the free Internet," then added: "The judge decided to give the Netherlands another nudge on the gliding scale of censorship." (Source: bbc.com)
Although it's likely large numbers of people will make continued efforts to skirt the ban, reports indicate that anyone caught doing so could face a fine of up to 250,000 Euros. (Source: pcmag.com)
Defenders of The Pirate Bay continue to question such court orders to block access to the site, suggesting that they constitute one more step towards full-blown government censorship of the Internet.
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