UPDATE Sad times at the BBC. Today it is expected at 11am to announce massive cuts to its digital operation.

The Daily Telegraph quotes a senior manager saying that in real terms at least 200 jobs will be lost although overall 350 posts will be eliminated (150 are not currently filled). Read More »

Bloomberg is reporting that the New York Times paywall is to cost less than $20 (£12.50) a month and maybe as little as $10.

The news service quoted “a person familiar with the matter. The paper had talked about launching its paywall this month, but it looks like it will go up early in February. Read More »

Roy Greenslade has highlighted a case of blatant plagiarism as the Daily Mail is caught red handed ripping off a long piece about how the rise of consumer electronic devices could cause plane crashes.

The New York Times piece, by Christine Negroni, quotes half a dozen sources and every single one appears in the story by Mail hack Liz Thomas including people with distinctive names such as Dinkar Mokadam, of the Association of Flight Attendants. Like no one is going to spot that, right? Read More »

Are you an Apple employee pining for your glorious leader since he went on sick leave? Well here’s just the thing to put on your wall during his absence: a mosaic portrait of Steve Jobs made out of Apple products.

Created by Charis Tsevis of Athens creative agency Tsevis Visual Design, it’s one of two portraits commissioned for the cover of Panorama, Italy’s biggest-selling weekly magazine. Read More »

The images and video of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming PlayStation Phone just keeps coming. To be honest is it just us or does this video of the Xperia-branded phone look at little lame? And heavy. It could be the poor quality video. Read More »

TestKing has created this great infographic that literally tells you everything you need to know about social networking.

It’s like a infographic crib sheet with facts about Facebook and Twitter as well as social networking around the world. Read More »

AOL is pushing forward its content strategy with the launch of an iPad only magazine called Editions.

Ahead of the launch it has released this amusing off beat video giving a hint of what we might expect from “Editions.” Read More »

What next for Yahoo! in a year that the likes of MySpace have already been laid low.

Yahoo! squandered its early dotcom lead and is now just a shadow of its former self. Will it stay independent? Will it merge with AOL? Enjoy. Read More »

This is an odd one. The Washington Post has set up an agency specialising in Facebook.

Called SocialCode and according to its About Us blurb the agency was formed because the once internal unit “developed an expertise running effective internal Facebook”. Read More »

Exquisite Tweets has put together this brilliantly amusing Twitter narrative following a frenzy tweets, a veritable wall of Chinese whispers, about a shooting on Oxford Street that never was (well not exactly).

The flurry of tweets began with this one from @candicecbailey from Asos who announced: “Street style shooting in Oxford Circus for ASOS and Diet Coke. Let me know if you’re around!!” It displays really well how these little rumours start and then start to spread. Read More »