How Smartphones, E-Readers And Tablets Are Changing The Game
February 25, 2010
Here is video from the paidContent 2010 panel on “How Smartphones, E-Readers And Tablets Are Changing The Game.” The panel includes Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem, ESPN Digital Media GM John Kosner, Simon & Schuster Chief Digital Officer Elinor Hirschhorn, and ABCNews.com VP and CyberJournalist.net Publisher Jonathan Dube.
Will the iPad save the news business?
February 1, 2010
Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the iPad will transform the news business or do nothing of the sort. Here’s a roundup of some of the thinking.
Washington Post launches new mobile site
July 30, 2009
The Washington Post has launched a new mobile site with a more local focus.
Twitter coverage of American rescue from Somali pirates
April 14, 2009
Some impressive Tweeting from ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto this week from Mombasa after Somali pirates captured Capt. Robert Phillips and then he was rescued. A few highlights… Read more »
Charmin Shows BlackBerry, iPhone Users Where to Go When They Gotta Go
March 28, 2009
A wiki at SitOrSquat.com and available as a mobile application for BlackBerry and iPhone both helps locate public restrooms and provides star ratings based on their cleanliness and other amenities. Talk about a useful mobile app!
CyberJournalist.net on Kindle
March 26, 2009
You can now read CyberJournalist.net on Kindle — subscribe here.
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S.
March 26, 2009
From TechCrunch: “The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics
report released this morning. Over the past six months, the iPhone has taken share from Blackberry and Windows Mobile. In August 2008, the iPhone made up only 10 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones. During the same time, Blackberry’s share has gone from 32 percent to 21 percent (with the Curve and the Pearl coming in stronger than the Storm), while Windows Mobile has taken an even bigger hit, declining from 30 percent to 13 percent. Palm is also down to 7 percent from 19 percent six months ago.”
comScore: Mobile news readers double in past year
March 23, 2009
comScore says that the number of people using their mobile device to access news and information more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. Among the audience of 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices in January 2009, 22.4 million (35 percent) did so daily; more than double the size of the audience last year.
Sensors, Smart Content, and the Future of News – ReadWriteWeb
March 17, 2009
Nick Bilton from The New York Times R&D Labs discussed how NYT is preparing for the future of news delivery at ETech.
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News organizations target mobile
August 6, 2008
News organizations are embracing content aimed at cell phones and
other mobile devices as part of their survival strategy in the digital
age, AJR reports.
