I had a brief talk with a Qualcomm rep today, and as usual the most common response was “no comment”. The talk was brief because the rep maintained the company line. You know that Pocketbook are working on a Mirsol e-reader, right? Well, no. Not according to Qualcomm. They never said that so they refuse [...]
Entries Tagged as 'news'
Check out how News Corp blew $3m on The Daily’s Super Bowl Ad
February 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment · software news, video
The Super Bowl ad for The Daily just showed up on Youtube, and I have to say that the ad is as awe inspiring as the digital newspaper itself.Snide comments aside, I think we have the winner for “Most Ambivalent Super Bowl Ad”. It’s by no means the worst ad but it is the least [...]
Google planning a digital news stand?
January 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · app store news, ebookstore news
The Wall Street Journal have a story this morning about Google once again wooing publishers. Google Inc. and Apple Inc. have stepped up their battle to win over publishers, as the two companies vie to become the dominant distributor of newspapers and magazines for tablet computers and other mobile devices. Google is trying to drum [...]
Good News for Readers: Amazon Might be Winning Its Battle with Traditional Publishers Over Prices
September 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
by Stephen Windwalker While it has been increasingly clear over the past year that Amazon is dominating the market share and price wars among dedicated ebook reader devices, it is now clear that Amazon is also winning its tug of war with traditional book publishers over ebook pricing.
Tags:Amazon·battle·good·news·prices·publishers·readers·traditional·winning
Paper.li – a new way to get your news
August 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · software news
I want to share a new information hunting technique I learned this week. I’m sure you know about Twitter, the 140 char microblogging service. I just found a new way to organize and find the tweets that you’re interested in: paper.li. It actually launched a couple months ago, but it was only in the past [...]
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 [...]
NewsCorp to launch tablet focused news organization – FAIL
July 30th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors
Financial Times are reporting: News Corp is nearing a decision on whether to start a news organisation to provide content for a subscription application on digital tablet devices such as Apple’s iPad, according to people close to the plans. … If News Corp gives the green light to the tablet-centric news organisation plans, it will [...]
Christian ebook dist. Symtio sold
June 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
Zondervan, a Christian publisher, announced last week that they had sold Symtio. They did not say who was buying the company, but Symtio is now showing on their About page that they’re owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Absent a formal announcement, I don’t really know that News Corp bought Symtio, but I think they [...]
The hot new trend for news websites: print editions
June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
No, seriously, the San Francisco Public Press will be printing their first physical edition tomorrow. It’s going to be 20 pages long with an 8 page pull out. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “It strikes me as audacious,” says Tom Goldstein, a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, adding that the move [...]
Less than a quarter of people will pay for news online
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion, surveys & polls
Paid Content UK ran a survey asking people about the paywall that the Times of London will soon have. They have posted the results of the survey, and I’m intrigued. They found that 23% of respondents were somewhat likely (13%) to very likely (4%) to pay for access. Paid Content is a lot more optimistic [...]
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