I wish I were a student again so I could impress people with my rolling skills. I had none, but that could all change for a new generation now that Apple has given the go ahead to the “roll your own” app.
Apple is usually so picky about which apps get the go ahead, nothing smutty or 18-rated, but clearly rolling up is hunky dory down in Cupertino, California. Read More
Things are reported to becoming together for News Corporation’s app based newspaper, which is to simply be called The Daily, as a string of staff are hired to write content and a budget of around $30 million has been assigned.
The project is expected to launch before the end of the year and Rupert Murdoch is said to be personally heavily involved in the development of The Daily, which at one time was rumoured was going to be named The Daily Planet. Read More
The Guardian , which launched its paid for iPhone and iPod Touch app last year, is launching a new version with an increased price.
Launched originally in December with a £2.39 price tag, Guardian News & Media is replacing the one-off charge with a six monthly or annual subscription. Read More
News International is continuing to push its paid content strategy with the announcement of a paid for Apple iPhone app for its celeb gossip column Bizarre.
The app is priced at £1.19 a month for the iPhone and Android phones and, thereafter, a small fee within the app”. Read More
The average app user in the US has 18 apps with teens and twenty nothings adding the most. No surprise that games are top for downloads, followed by news and map based apps. Those categories outstrip social networking.
Interesting to see the split between men and women is not that great and it is apparently closing as more women get smartphones. What’s also noteworthy here is that Twitter not Facebook has the highest daily use about 18-24 yearolds – 75% compared to 57% fpr Facebook, but that then reverses in the nex group 25- 34 where Facebook leaders Twitter. Read More
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation appears to be developing not one, but two teams to develop standalone app based or tablet newspaper products.
It had been reported last month Murdoch was planning to launch an app based newspaper project, which would be populist in tone and aligned with the New York Post. However, a leaked memo, posted online by Romenesko, from The Wall Street Journal’s managing editor Robert Thomson says that two senior editorial executives have been appointed from the WSJ and Down Jones to a “crucial” “WSJ/DJ Special Project”. Read More
Wired editor Chris Anderson, famous for saying that the nature of digital abundance (as opposed to physical scarcity) would create a race to the zero-price-point has now come out proclaiming the web dead. Read More
CNBC is reporting that News Corporation is seriously considering establishing a unit to create subscription-based content for applications on digital tablet devices such as the Apple iPad. Read More
One application created such a storm when it hit Apple’s iPad last week that you could easily have missed the news that the BBC have finally released apps for the iPhone and iPad. So what app managed to create such a storm that even those without iPads were talking about it? Read More
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