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10.30pm YouTube
A cannon called 'Wolf', detecting pizza and the cost of statewide email
We call the cannon 'Wolf' | Can it detect pizza crusts? | Statewide email costs less, sure
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9.08pm David Cameron
David Cameron: turning the air blue
David Cameron quickly apologises for comments about Twitter on morning radio show -
9.01pm Easyjet
Good work, Stelios. Now please return to your seat
The founder of easyJet has won some battles, but he's not entitled to call the tune any more -
8.47pm Barack Obama
Tomasky talk video: Michael Tomasky watches the 'birthers' video
Video (3min 11sec)
Michael Tomasky watches the 'birthers' video from Huffington Post
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8.00pm Television
Do you need a licence to watch TV on your computer?
Jacob Aron: Watching TV on your laptop is becoming increasingly popular but just what does that mean to TV licensing authorities – and your need to pay
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7.35pm ITV
ITV's got a talent problem
As Michael Grade moves upstairs, Britain's leading commercial broadcaster needs to find that rare beast: someone who can crunch numbers - and handle the stars -
6.21pm Business
London shares close higher despite Wall Street dip
Wall Street's lacklustre start and concerns in Asia about a potential stockmarket bubble appearing in China failed to dampen spirits in London.
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6.19pm Microsoft
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6.00pm Media
Birthers are citizens of Idiot America
Dan Kennedy: The media must stop pandering to the conspiracy theorists who are challenging Barack Obama's US citizenship
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5.48pm Marketing & PR
Frank Rovekamp to leave Vodafone
Group chief marketing officer to part company with mobile phone firm at end of the year. By Mark Sweney -
5.45pm Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror's Coventry Newspapers staff call off strike
Coventry journalists join Birmingham colleagues in cancelling action over over compulsory redundancies. By Leigh Holmwood -
5.30pm Weather
Blame the headlines, not the Met Office
Michael Fish: This may not be the weather you were expecting this summer, but the media often misinterpret Met Office forecasts
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5.26pm Steve Ballmer
Google will try to stop our deal with Yahoo, says Microsoft chief executive
Search engine giant will be 'aggressive' in lobbying regulators, says Microsoft chief executive. By Mark Sweney -
4.08pm BBC
Zimbabwe lifts reporting ban on BBC and CNN after eight years
Government minister accepts Zimbabwe and BBC had 'mutually ruinous relationship'. By John Plunkett
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4.00pm Microsoft
Microsoft has a bad year at the office
The world's biggest software company is feeling the effect of the global recession, with revenues down for the first time. What might this mean for its future?
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3.54pm Politics
Oh Dave, weren't you brought up proper?
Michael White: The controversy over David Cameron's radio swearing will not dominate August
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3.51pm Culture
The Royal Opera House teams up with the Sun – again
Charlotte Higgins: ... and this time, the readers are offered ballet, too
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3.49pm Mad Men
Become a Mad Man (or woman)
Media Monkey: Make your own chain-smoking, boozing Madison Avenue worker with the help of website
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3.39pm Yahoo
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal under the bloggers' microscope
Reaction and analysis poured in from around the web to the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal with the consensus that the new partners still face an uphill battle against Google
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3.10pm ITV
ITV chief executive race: profiles of the runners and riders
What you need to know about the frontrunners, from Apple's Pascal Cagni to Malcolm Wall. By Chris Tryhorn
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3.00pm Middle East
Who's responsible for the Arab world?
Khaled Diab: A UN report has reignited the controversy over who is to blame for the sorry state of the Arab world: Arabs or the west? -
2.51pm Television
The Desperate Romantics' muses pose problems in episode two
Sarah Dempster: This week, the simmering sexual tension between various characters exploded into the spontaneous bouts of passion that Victorians seemed to be so well versed in. How was it for you?
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2.23pm Digital media
Microsoft and Yahoo confirm 10-year search advertising deal
Microsoft's Bing to be Yahoo's 'exclusive algorithmic search', with Yahoo receiving 88% of search revenue for five years. By Kevin Anderson -
2.12pm Ofcom
Was David Cameron's Twitter tirade too blue for radio?
Media Monkey: Did the Tory leader's four-letter outburst on Christian O'Connell's radio show breach Ofcom's code?
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2.08pm BBC
Odd bedfellows for the BBC as it seals deal to provide video for newspaper websites
The BBC's landmark deal with four national newspaper groups to share video news on their websites has produced some odd bedfellows
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1.30pm Reality TV
Reality TV makes us poverty voyeurs
Belinda Webb: The new reality series How the Other Half Live, which matches up rich and poor families, gives us hopelessness as soap opera -
1.23pm The Independent
Simon Kelner: Independent titles are not for sale
Independent and Independent on Sunday chief says there are 'no ongoing discussions' with Alexander Lebedev. By Mark Sweney -
1.22pm Advertising
Yahoo and Microsoft confirm 10-year search ads deal
Internet pioneer hopes deal will save hundreds of millions dollars as well as generating new revenue. By Kevin Anderson -
1.17pm David Cameron
David Cameron says sorry for 'twat' comment during radio interview
Tory leader apologises for any offence caused by remark about Twitter
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12.49pm Regional & local newspapers
Council mags merge to save money
More on the council-run publications front... The Bucks Free Press reports that five magazines published by councils in its area, at a total cost of £300,000, are to be merged in order to save money
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12.43pm TV ratings
TV ratings: Desperate Romantics jilted by 500,000 viewers on second episode
Drama about pre-Raphaelite brotherhood watched by 2 million on BBC2. By Leigh Holmwood
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12.35pm David Cameron
Video: David Cameron: 'Too many twits make a twat'
Video (1min 05sec)
The Conservative party leader, David Cameron, tells Absolute Radio's Christian O'Connell why he's not on Twitter
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12.19pm London Evening Standard
Eady may be a threat to press freedom
I have been reflecting in the days since I appeared as a witness in the Richard Desmond versus Tom Bower libel trial on the errors made by the judge, Mr Justice Eady. I now believe they cast a shadow over his abilities and his decisions may well be a threat to press freedom, as I argue in my London Evening Standard column today
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12.06pm Independent News & Media
O'Reilly and Lebedev: it's totally untrue
My blog posting yesterday, Lebedev in talks to buy Independent is completely untrue. It cited a Media Week story that claimed Alexander Lebedev had met Gavin O'Reilly to talk about a deal
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12.00pm Newspapers & magazines
Krissi Murison to edit NME
Nylon magazine music director to be first female editor of IPC music weekly. By Mark Sweney -
11.53am Piers Morgan
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11.42am Digital media
Highbrows have their pie and eat it with Mary Louise Parker
Media Monkey: When the demands of search engine optimisation collide with the tasteful stylings of US Esquire
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11.37am David Cameron
Sweary Cameron illustrates dangers of informal interview
'Too many twits might make a twat,' Tory leader says of Twitter website
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11.34am US press and publishing
US paper signs up citizen journalists
Is this not the route we are all travelling nowadays? A publisher based in the US state of Michigan, Independent Newspapers, is asking for people to come forward a join a citizen journalism programme
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11.29am Environment
Elevator Pitch: Green Thing wants to change the world with creativity and inspiration
London-based online community Green Thing wants to give its subscribers creative ways to beat climate change
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10.49am Digital media
EC threatens action against US over copyright laws
paidContent: The European Commission has threatened to stop working with the U.S. against piracy if the U.S doesn't make its copyright laws fairer to European artists
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10.48am Magazines
Economist settles Russian billionaire's libel action
News and business magazine reaches undisclosed settlement with oil tycoon Gennady Timchenko. By John Plunkett -
10.37am ESPN
ESPN Premier League football to be free for first month on cable
Disney-owned brand makes introductory offer on new UK subscription football channel. By Mark Sweney -
10.30am Gender
Plagued by female troubles in adland
Bidisha: How can women possibly fight for equality when they have bikini line stubble, bad digestion and gingivitis to deal with? -
10.28am Gadgets
Tech Weekly podcast: Interviews with Flip Video and Atomic Floyd
Audio (16min 52sec)
The European chief of Flip Video on why Cisco bought the company, and the competition from video enabled mobile phones. Plus how precision made headphones are much better with your tech gear.
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10.10am Regional & local newspapers
Paper brushes aside art lovers' protests as it celebrates campaign victory
Here's an interesting little tale about a regional daily paper's lengthy "campaign". It illustrates how newspaper revelations can lead to action. But it also shows how, once a paper takes sides, it cannot hope to please all of its audience
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10.09am Advertising
Watch iPhone apps ad
Video (30 sec)
Advert for Apple's iPhone advert trumpeting the usefulness of the mobile phone's applications
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10.07am Advertising Standards Authority
Watch an STV jobs ad attacked for spoofing the haka
Video (19 sec)
TV advert for Scottish broadcaster's jobs website that attracted complaints after it imitated the traditional Maori dance
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9.57am Springwatch
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9.33am Major League Soccer
ESPN adds Major League Soccer to football rights package
ESPN has continued building up its live football content, buying the rights to the MLS and some top European leagues -
9.18am Digital media
Microsoft and Yahoo 'reach ad deal'
Microsoft's Bing to become default search engine on Yahoo under revenue-sharing deal, US media reports suggest. By Mark Sweney -
9.08am Climate change
Thinning cloud cover over oceans speeds global warming, study finds
New research dents hopes that clouds could act as brake on climate change
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8.33am Rupert Murdoch
Malone: Rupert owes me a favour
Rupert Murdoch owes me a favour, says fellow media mogul John Malone. The chairman of Liberty Media - which has a broad range of media assets from DirecTV and the Discovery Channel, to QVC and Liberty Global - makes the claim in a video interview with the Financial Times
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8.00am Twitter
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Apple cleared over iPhone ad claims
ASA rules Apple free to claim iPhone applications store is superior to rival Google service. By Mark Sweney
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7.39am Advertising
E.ON wind farm adverts banned
Ad watchdog rules that material promoting a proposed wind farm – with pictures of smaller turbines elsewhere – was misleading. By Tom Roberts -
7.32am BSkyB
Trafalgar Square plinth becomes surprise web hit for Sky Arts
Web visits pour in for Antony Gormley art project in which members of the public stand on a plinth for an hour each. By Leigh Holmwood -
7.23am Social networking
Bebo appoints global chief executive after 14-month delay
Stephane Panier named as chief exec of AOL-owned social networking site - over a year after Joanna Shields left. By Mark Sweney -
7.18am Advertising
'Haka' war dance ad for jobs site cleared of being offensive to Maoris
Watchdog received complaints about TV and cinema ad based on New Zealand rugby team's war dance. By Mark Sweney -
1.22am Telecommunications industry
Orange, Universal and C4 woo youth music market on mobiles
New service will give pre-pay customers unlimited access to tracks from extensive catalogue -
12.29am ITV
HMV and Apple bosses tipped to become new chief executive of ITV
Simon Fox, the chief executive of HMV, and Pascal Cagni, the head of Apple's European operation, are said to be on the shortlist to become the next chief executive of ITV. By Mark Sweney
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12.05am Television
Last night's TV: Car Crime UK and Send in the Dogs
Nee-nar, nee-nar! In Car Crime UK, the police do lots of chasing – but very little actual catching, says Sam Wollaston
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12.05am UK news
What's it like being a gay Muslim?
EastEnders' current romantic storyline featuring a gay Muslim character has caused a stir. But what is it really like to be gay within Britain's Muslim communities? Interviews by Homa Khaleeli -
12.05am Television
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12.05am Models
Unmasked: the blogging model who rocked the world of fashion
An interview with Jenna Sauers, the fashion model who worked anonymously for the feminist website Jezebel
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12.05am Radio
With Great Pleasure
Elisabeth Mahoney enjoys Honor Blackman's saucy suggestions -
12.05am Media
More on Pugwash
Letter: I was lucky enough to have two life-enhancing encounters with John Ryan -
12.05am Radio