The updated Linked in iPhone app
For obvious reasons Google has long-trumpeted the notion that brands should create a mobile optimised site first before developing a costly iPhone app.
While Google now offers a free way of doing so with its recently launched Mobilize tool, brands are looking to create more sophisticated mobile sites as they start to realise that the only way isn’t necessarily Apple. Read More
AllthingsD reports that rumours Apple will launch the new version of its iPhone, the iPhone 5 in October, and not September as is being widely reported.
The September rumour sparked a wave of blog posts and seemed to be largely based on what an AT&T employee had said regarding holidays being cancelled for the last two weeks of September due to an “event blackout”. Read More
We have reached an interesting point in the development of iPad magazines. Companies that had initially been hugely enthusiastic about the format, like Conde Nast, are having second thoughts and slowing down their adoption of the platform. Other publishers remain very cynical.
At the same time companies like Future Publishing are citing the iPad as one of the key reasons for significant growth of its digital division. Read More
Apple is reported to be teaming up with a major electronics firm to launch Apple branded televisions.
With its focus on consumer products via the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod, an Apple braned iTV looks like a shoo-in. Read More
This is a letter that Sean Connery never wrote in response to Steve Jobs after being asked to appear in an Apple ad. Clearly it is a fake, but it very funny.
It isn’t that the letter comes via Scoopertino (“All the news that’s fit to fabricate”), its the “I am ****ing James Bond” oh and the 007 logo. Read More
There is suddenly a lot happening at Twitter. This morning we had updates to its mobile browser and now we’re getting a major update to Twitter for Mac. If you are like me and a big user of Twitter on the Mac then this will be very welcome news indeed.
It will in future be easier to use and will for the first time allow you to open multiple Twitter windows among other improvements. The best thing though is it looks and works like an app.
How many people do you know that use an Apple iPhone, an iPad or iTouch? Probably quite a few. Figures estimate that there are now 130 million users of the Apple iOS platform (15 million iPads alone) that powers all these formats.
As a result advertisers have to create campaigns that work across all these new devices, but there’s a significant problem. Read More
Only weeks into the life of New Corporation’s iPad only title The Daily its editor, Jesse Angelo, has sent a memo to his editorial team telling them that they need to go beyond “scraping the web and the wires”.
What he wants to see is them out on the ground doing some reporting and finding more “compelling” stories. You would think that this is the kind of thing that would have been set out in the vision for The Daily from the start. Apparently not. Read More
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It’s one of the biggest questions of our times: Shall I get an iPad now or wait for the next generation device come out?’
Whispers that the iPad 2 might be released next week could remove that stress-inducing dilemma.
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
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