Sony has released a couple of videos previewing its forthcoming S1 and S2 Android tablet computers.
They look very nice, and one of the promos is reminiscent of Honda’s classic cog ad, though they don’t give all that much away, but then with a flood of tablet computers now on the market maybe less is more? Take a look and see what you think. Read More
The Waste Land: screen shot from the app, showing Fiona Shaw
Publisher Faber & Faber is trying out something new in digital publishing with an iPad version of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Poetry lovers often argue that poems are meant to be heard rather than read, and The Waste Land app addresses this, presenting the text alongside a number of different readings.
April Fool: for now
How very busy tech bloggers, journalists and in house PR teams have been concocting April fools delights for their readers.
First up, the in-house jokes: Google proves that it has a sense of humour about some of its less successful product launches with the announcement of Gmail Motion. Laugh today, but part of me thinks someone in a Google lab somewhere is making this a reality. Maybe hooking up with Google Wave to make Google Wave Motion?
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
News Corp’s exclusive iPad newspaper was unveiled at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City today by Rupert Murdoch, joined by Apple’s Eddy Cue, who was standing in for Steve Jobs.
Featuring a 100+ page newspaper covering current affairs, gossip, opinion, arts and life, apps and games, and sports with lots of complementary multimedia content such as videos and 360 degree images, The Daily is available just in the US at present, at a cost of 99c a week through the iPad App Store.
The application will update throughout the day and you’ll be able to comment on articles, share them on social sites and even have some of them read to you. Read More
Is it that time already? Yesterday, Gartner said that mobile application revenue will nearly triple in 2011, to $15.1bn ($5.2bn last year) and much of that growth will come from 18 billion app downloads 60,000 of which are designed for the Apple iPad, which has seen sales beat expectations.
The iPad, almost a year old now, had racked up sales of almost 15 million (14.8 million by the end of 2010) and about 7.33 million of those sales came in December. That growth is set to rocket this year as this infographic shows. 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
Rupert Murdoch’s planned iPad newspaper, The Daily, is to use Tumblr as part of its social media strategy to drive subscriptions.
Good news to hear that it has a social media strategy as last week the indications were that the now delayed Daily would have a website that would only be accessible to subscribers like the the anti-social media approach of The Times. Read More
As reported earlier this week Rupert Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs had been planning to jointly launch News Corporation’s iPad newspaper, The Daily, next week on January 19. Not so, apparently.
AllThingsD is reporting that the launch of The Daily has now been delayed by a number of weeks although no official reason has been given. Read More
It’s being reported that Rupert Murdoch will be joined on stage by Apple CEO Steve Jobs for the launch of News Corporation’s iPad newspaper, The Daily, which will be unveiled next week (January 19).
It is also being speculated that The Daily will take a page out of the Times anti-social media playbook and lock its associated website away from search and bloggers.
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