The Daily‘s launch was held today (thing looks promising!), and only one minor glitch marred the proceedings. That occured when a reporter from the BBC (News Corp.’s mortal enemy) took the opportunity to ask Rupert Murdoch an uncomfortable question. Have a look:
Speaking at the DLD conference in Munich yesterday, James Murdoch, son of Rupert and head of News Corp.’s operations in Asia and Europe, said the currently-delayed tablet newspaper The Daily would appear in “a few weeks.”
He didn’t have much to report beyond that. The newspaper will still cost 99 cents a week and Read More
School budgets are being slashed left and right, but not when it comes to iPads at least in some districts.
Roslyn High School in Long Island, which is in the second-richest county in New York, hopes to eventually buy iPads for its 1,100 students at $750 apiece, The New York Times reports.
“I think Read More
The relationship between Apple and major magazine publishers ended the year on a sour note. Sales of magazine apps on the iPad, initially promising, had fallen off at a dismal rate.
This morning the Wall Street Journal highlighted Google’s efforts to build a digital newstand which would carry high end magazine apps on Read More
Digital sales dropped for every magazine that provides subscription data to the American Bureau of Circulation, reports WWD’s MemoPad.
Wired never again came close to its 100,000-sale first edition, and now appears to be leveling out around 22,000. Glamour app sales dropped 20 percent from September to October and another 20 from October to Read More
The small, keyboardless and fragile $485 computer known as the Apple iPad is so popular that it’s apparently becoming necessary to have at least one for every fifty square feet of space.
A new survey from YouGov, reported by the Apple news blog 9to5mac, shows we’re entering the era of the double-iPad household. Seventeen Read More
Right now, Apple dominates the market for tablet computers. But a host of competitors are expected to premier at the Consumer electronics show in January.
Among them is a tablet device from Motorola running Google’s Android operating system. Motorola teased the new device and dissed its rivals in this amusing video.
Taking a trip through Read More
New details about the Justice Department’s ongoing probe into insider trading reveal a strong focus on technology and hot consumer products like the iPad.
Walter Shimoon, a senior director at Flextronics, an Apple supplier, was arrested today, charged with leaking details about the iPad way back in 2009, according to Reuters.
Transcripts from the Read More
The New York Daily News iPad app is now available in the Apple iTunes store, said the Daily News in a statement.
The app allows subscribers ($1.99 a month for now) to download a replica of the print edition for wifi-less commutes and keep up with breaking news and multimedia throughout the day, according to Daily Read More
Magazine publishers were some of the first big believers in the potential of Apple’s iPad, with Conde Nast saying they expected as much as 40% of their revenues would come from tablet devices in the future.
But the romance has quickly soured, as publishers push back against Apple’s increasingly domineering stance to subscriptions and Read More
