I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t know about Rupert Murdoch’s previous web based newspaper; this is the first I’d ever heard of it. Back in 1995 New Corp launched iGuide, a pioneering effort to bring daily news coverage to the web. It failed, and Evan Rudowski watched it happen. He wrote an article today [...]
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Will The Daily follow in the footsteps of Murdoch’s last digital newspaper?
January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
Rupert Murdoch’s tablet newspaper isn’t dead after all
November 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Women’s Wear Daily had an extensive story this week on The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s tablet newspaper. (Do you recall the one that was supposed to have been cancelled? I guess it wasn’t.) WWD don’t have much in the way of technical details, but they did say that: News Corp. has spent the last three months [...]
I think Murdoch’s tablet newspaper will fail
August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Peter Kafka has the scoop over at AllThingsDigital. He’s reporting that Greg Clayman, formerly of Viacom, is going to head NewsCorp’s new tablet news unit (or whatever they end up calling it). I’ve pretty much assumed that this would happen, and I’m pretty sure it will also fail. But I never really explained why. It [...]
Is Rupert Murdoch really going to launch a tablet news unit?
August 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
There’s a story in today’s LATimes that says just that. But I have a problem. A close reading of the LATimes article does not indicate that the have a new source. For all we know they might be working off the Wall Street Journal rumors we read last week. Here’s an excerpt: News Corp. Chief [...]
Rupert Murdoch: Tablets are the Future
August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The Australian have an article on a talk given by Rupert Murdoch at a “new media” breakfast event. He spoke at length about tablets, and he said they were: “a perfect platform for our content. We can deliver our content to our readers when, where and how they want it. It’s cheap, convenient and constantly [...]
Murdoch rails against British Library
May 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · opinion
James Murdoch attacked the British Library’s plans to digitize their several hundred year old, 40m page archive in a speech yesterday. The archive will be available online, but only as a for pay service. Here is an excerpt the Guardian: “This is not simply being done for posterity, nor to make free access for library [...]
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