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Free mobile-application subscriptions offered by NYT to its long-time readers

Published on: 28th March, 2011

A new paywall starting on March 28th has been announced by the New York Times for its digital content criticized for expensive and at the same time confusing mobile-device pricing structures. The NYT has begun e-mailing its regular users of the web portal with an offer of a free subscription, for a year, to the [...]

News Corp has more than 200,000 paid subscribers coming from tablets

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Les Hinton, publisher at Wall Street Journal has mentioned the strong performance related to paid subscriptions for tablet editions of New Corp. with a number of paid subscriptions quadrupled when compared to last year, the company has reached 200,000 paid subscribers, as Hinton said at a speech in Boston. He also said that other periodicals [...]

Apple rejects a Danish Android magazine from its App Store

Published on: 15th December, 2010

A magazine application belonging to the Danish publisher Mediaprovider has been rejected by Apple because its content was exclusively dealing with Android, which is the rival operating system of Apple’s iOS. However, charges that Apple is censoring the content of the App Store are not founded as far as Androidworld Reader, a magazine application coming [...]

News Corp executive confirmed tablet-focused news source

Published on: 24th November, 2010

James Murdoch, head of Asia-Europe division of News Corp, confirmed the existence of the long-rumored tablet news source of the company. The son of the founder Rupert Murdoch, at a conference with a Spanish investor, said that Daily Planet (codename of the outlet) would be soon detailed. Details were not given except that it would [...]

Panasonic will begin selling Android smartphones next year

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Recent report cited an announcement of Panasonic which says that it will start selling smartphones based on Android in 2011 in Japan. The phone is expected to reach other global markets in 2012. It will be a high-end device, meant to compete with the iPhone and the range of Galaxy S handsets of Samsung. The [...]

Google CEO says Chrome OS is keyboard-oriented, not touch

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, at the Web 2.0 summit, clarified the strategy of his company for Chrome OS devices. He stated again that Google designed the operating system for devices which provided a hardware keyboard to be used as input device, rather than a touch-only alternative common to the majority of the tablets present on [...]

NVIDIA says Google is behind Apple on tablets

Published on: 19th November, 2010

Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA’s chief, in a conference call dedicated to the discussion of fiscal results, noted that Google had a little slipped back with respect to tablet development when comparing it to Apple. He appreciated the work done by Google on optimizing Android for tablet devices and future smartphones, but also mentioned that the search [...]

Mega phone based on Super AMOLED 2 planned by Samsung for 2011

Published on: 19th November, 2010

Samsung may start next year an ambitious project consisting of an Android phone using a more high-end screen than recently leaked. A two-slide presentation showed a Super AMOLED 2 screen with the size of 4.5 inches and capable of improving the quality of the image beyond everything already existing today. The most important improvement touches [...]

Microsoft has already sold one million Kinect sensors

Published on: 19th November, 2010

Microsoft has already sold one million Kinect sensors across the globe. It reached the milestone in just ten days since the device became available and two weeks before Black Friday, the biggest selling day of the whole year, when customers really invade the stores. Initial expectations were to sell more than three million of the [...]

Google’s CEO says there is no fragmentation of Android

Published on: 19th November, 2010

Eric Schmidt, chief of Google, as part of the talk that presented the Nexus S, denied once more that there was a problem of fragmentation for Android. He tried to convince the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit that his company was using an appropriate approach to keep phone producers in line and that the [...]

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