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Tuesday night’s TV saw BBC One come up trumps with its Holby City/New Tricks double-header from 8pm.Hospital drama Holby City, on for an hour from 8pm had a peak of 5.7 million viewers (a 25.9% share of the audience) with an average of 5.6 million tuning in for its entire running time.Following straight on was… Continue reading Tuesday night success for cops and docs

Google is integrating barcode scanning into its Android mobile phone operating system.The new application scans barcodes on products and allows users to find out how much the product retails for online, as well as providing links to other online information.Google wrote on its blog: “Today, barcode scanning works best for products like electronics, books, movies,… Continue reading Google launches Android barcode scanner

Redwood’s May/June edition of Your M&S, celebrating the 125 years of Marks & Spencer, has a cover price of just 1p.On sale in-stores now, the magazine’s design and content are also intended to celebrate the nation’s nostalgia for the M&S brand on its birthday.Special content includes an exclusive interview with M&S CEO Stuart Rose, a… Continue reading Your M&S cuts cover price to 1p for anniversary issue

Americans conducted 14.8 billion core searches last month, up 3% on March, according to April 2009 data from comScore. Google Sites led the US core search market for the month with 9.5 billion (64.2%) searches conducted. It was followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3 billion searches (20.4%), and Microsoft Sites with 1.2 billion searches (8.2%).… Continue reading Americans conducted 14.8bn online searches in April

Future, the specialist magazine publisher, has reported an 11% fall in revenue for the six months to the end of March.The company’s revenue was £76.6 million for the period, a 2% year-on-year fall or 11% when the effects of currency exchange are removed.Overall circulation revenues, accounting for 59% of total revenues, were down 10% year… Continue reading Future reports fall in revenue

The north Kent free weekly title the Gravesend, Dartford & Swanley Extra, published by Kent Messenger Group, is relaunching as the Messenger Extra.Messenger Extra will be a single-edition title, replacing the two editions distributed in Gravesend and in Dartford and Swanley.The old door-to-door delivery distribution model will be replaced by a mix of free-to-home delivery,… Continue reading Kent Messenger Group to relaunch free weekly paper

The Daily Telegraph‘s website has seen a big boost in traffic following the MPs’ expenses scandal, according to new data from Hitwise.Hitwise said that 1 in every 756 page views in the UK last week went to a Telegraph property, with the newspaper’s market share of UK pages views (0.13%) the highest it has ever… Continue reading MPs’ expenses scandal boosts traffic to Telegraph website

Twitter chief executive Biz Stone has announced that the microblogging site will not be running ads.Instead, the company wants to generate revenue by developing applications and add-on tools for business users.Speaking at a summit in New York, Stone said that there are plans to launch an analytics system by the end of the year, allowing… Continue reading Twitter says no to ads

New research has found that online advertisers believe there is room for improvement in terms of audience measurement. Over 800 executives from advertising agencies, media publishers, ad networks and advertisers across the globe completed the MIA Project Audience and Traffic Measurement survey, a joint initiative between the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) and the Interactive… Continue reading Online audience measurement has “room for improvement”

Google has written a letter to the Office of Fair Trading asking it to relax rules governing UK newspaper mergers.Google said that it would be supportive of publishers wanting to merge with local and regional newspapers to create competition for the search engine and online content aggregators.The OFT is currently reviewing the existing merger rules… Continue reading Google asks OFT to relax newspaper merger rules