Mr Murdoch's News Corp had previously said it would start charging online customers across all its websites.
Recently, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News International's parent company News Corporation, said it would begin charging for online news content.
Kevin Ward said his personal view was that within five years most newspapers would be charging for content online.
"You can't give it away on the streets and then start charging for it online, " said Lorna Tilbian, media analyst at Numis Securities.
It will also raise questions about the charging structure of online courses, which in this pioneering stage have mostly been free or low cost.
Those controlling the new money medium stand to make big bucks charging people to shop online.
And in America online merchants avoid charging sales tax in some states by neither having a physical presence nor hiring staff there.
He led The Times' move into digital publishing, charging readers to access its online site, and also had to implement cuts at the paper.
These types of solutions require real-time QOS decisions, perhaps based on distributed charging models, requiring an online dialogue when the system detects a problem or opportunity to offer better QOS. Service data flow detection could also help determine the value of a particular service at a particular instant.
Although some are charging subscription fees to players of online games or selling advertising, many of them make most of their money by managing an online economy, complete with virtual goods and a digital currency.
Moreover online brokers make money by charging interest on brokerage account balances.
Facebook, Gmail and other ad-supported online services would need to start charging users if proposed changes to EU data protection laws go ahead, a legal expert has warned.
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The Financial Times (part-owner of The Economist) keeps readers on a meter, by charging those who look at more than ten articles a month online.
It's also looking to add all Scottish PiP-funded public charging points to a National Charge Point Registry, which is available online.
The boldest conglomerate is News Corporation, which sells online subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and will begin charging for the newspaper's smart-phone applications.
As I wrote last June, its value chain let Dell set its costs 14% below those of competitors like Compaq (that HP bought in 2002) while charging companies a 13% higher price because of the convenience its online purchasing process gave companies who could order PCs configured for their specific requirements.
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Except that the banks knew they had to leave some teeth in the bill, and knowing that would be one change coming, they have already begun charging fees for previously free services, like free-checking and free online bill-paying, to make up the difference.
Then, in 1996, America Online opened the floodgates by introducing a monthly flat rate instead of charging by the hour.
"This will be epic, " said anonsacco on Jan. 14, 2012, in a private online chat room, according to a transcript in one of the charging documents.
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Writing in Slate, Microsoft's online magazine, Mr Myhrvold explains that the main problem with usage-based charging for electronic information is that it is an artificial distortion of the underlying economics.
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