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James Murdoch Exits Newspaper Boards

Paul Sonne and Cassell Bryan-Low — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:16:08 +0000

James Murdoch has left the boards of operating companies overseeing News Corp.’s U.K. newspapers the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times, according to British regulatory filings, which registered the changes in September.

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How to Get Your Porn App Into iTunes: Wrap a Newspaper Around It

Peter Kafka — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:00:37 +0000

Steve Jobs wants to keep porn out of his iTunes App Store. But not all porn. At least if you define porn as “half-naked shots of unknown British models.”

Because that’s what you get with the new iPad app from The Sun.

The U.K. tabloid, owned by News Corp. (NWS)–as is this Web site–is famous for its “Page 3 girls,” who show up topless and smiling every day in the paper’s print edition and on its Web site.

And they’re in the $7.99 iPad app, too, according to this numbingly in-depth review/slideshow from paidContent. Here’s the relevant screenshot, which paidContent has made safe for work but that would otherwise feature a half-nekkid lady’s boobies:

How’s that work? According to paidContent, The Sun gets away with it because Apple (AAPL) requires the app’s users to confirm they’re at least 17 years old.

But if that’s the case, wouldn’t every vaguely porny app be embracing this workaround? And if so, wouldn’t that make iTunes as steamy as Google’s (GOOG) Android offering?

I’m hoping that Apple’s PR staff can sort this out for us. But I’m not hopeful.

Luck of the Irish?

John Paczkowski — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:52:57 +0000

U2 manager Paul McGuinness likes to blame those crazy longhairs in Silicon Valley for aiding and abetting music piracy, but perhaps he should be pointing the finger at his own boss. According to British tabloid The Sun, the four songs from the Irish rock band’s forthcoming album that are currently being shared on the Internet found their way there after band frontman Bono played them too loudly on his stereo at his villa in the south of France. Apparently, a vacationing U2 fan strolling past the singer’s estate heard the tracks, recorded them on his mobile phone and posted them to YouTube.