Times Online shuts as News Corp paywall nears
Times Online readers are being redirected to thetimes.co.uk, the front page for The Times, The Sunday Times and Times+ online, which requires registration for a free preview throughout this month. Although it’s not known when charging for content will commence, News Corp has today made several moves to advance its paid-content trajectory.
New Media Age

YouTube adds video editor
Google-owned YouTube has added a basic video-editing system to its service, letting users combine multiple videos. The new YouTube editor is a basic video editing tool that lets you cut and crop and combine your video footage before uploading it to the site.
TechRadar

Twitter warns of more downtime ahead
Twitter has warned of more outages over the next two weeks as the company struggles to fix and optimise its systems to cope with large surges in web traffic. Sean Garrett, vice president of communications at Twitter, acknowledged in a blog post that June has already been the site's worst in terms of stability and service since October.
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NHS ignores data protection
Data privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned that NHS health trusts do not seem to give a monkey's about losing data. The ICO said it is concerned that data breaches involving people's personal information are continuing to occur in NHS organisations.
The Inquierer

Did the iPad just save Wired, and Conde-Nast?
Saving the whole of the newspaper industry is a big ask, even for a "magical and revolutionary" device, but there might just be hope for the magazine business. The rapaciously-priced ($4.99 for this month's issue) iPad edition of Wired has comfortably outsold the somewhat cheaper print edition, and it's not even ad-free. On the contrary...
The Register

Bill Gates's limp defence of Chinese web censorship
It will exasperate Microsoft's PRs that Bill Gates's philanthropic efforts attract far less attention than his comments on, say, China and the internet. BBC Today's Evan Davis managed to shoehorn in a brief question on Gates's opinions about Chinese censorship, despite what was no doubt a strictly managed interview set up.
The Guardian

Google launches UK property search service
Google has unveiled its latest addition to its Google Maps service – property searching. This is a service that was hinted at back in late 2009 and one which has divided Estate Agents, particularly Right Move who already runs a similar paid-for service.
TechRadar

People will buy stuff from their smartphones
Analyst outfit Juniper has suddenly worked out that people might use their clever mobile phones to buy stuff online. The firm has sent out people with clipboards to ask punters if they will use their smartphones to buy stuff over the internet. It also asked people how much they might spend to buy things.
The Inquirer

Social sites account for a quarter of all web time
Internet users have doubled the time they spend on social networking pages in the past year, according to new research from the Nielsen Group. The analyst firm found that internet users spent 110 billion minutes on social networking sites, including blogs, in April, equating to almost a quarter of all web time.
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