FT.com: Google woos publishers with One Pass
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"Google has launched a new online payments system for publishers, with more generous revenue sharing than rival Apple’s recently launched alternative."
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mocoNews: App Publishers Rebel Against Apple. Google Offers A Solution?
"According to one publisher that contacted mocoNews, Google plans to release the details of its own in-app billing service, possibly as soon as today. Like any company looking to gain more marketshare and revenue, Google looks like it wil undercut its competitor Apple"
Media Week: Standard creates BA sponsored mobile app
"The London Evening Standard has launched a mobile phone news service sponsored by British Airways London City service. It is available free across a series of mobile platforms, including iPhone, BlackBerry and Google Android smartphones."
Techcrunch: Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge In The Not-Too-Distant Future
"Why build a new Chrome Web Store when there is already an Android Marketplace? ... 'These models are likely to converge in the future. And not the too distant future,' [Google co-founder Sergey Brin] says."
TechCrunch: Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead
"[The] German Android device has a bigger multitouch screen and a faster CPU than the iPad. Also it runs Flash, has USB ports, an inbuilt card reader and expandable memory. Additionally it allows complete multitasking and has a webcam."
BBC News: Mobile firms unite to offer applications
The Wholesale Applications Community aims to overcome [app store] fragmentation by offering a single 'open platform that delivers applications to all mobile phone users'"
Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip
"To build Google Fast Flip, we partnered with three dozen top publishers, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Salon, Fast Company, ProPublica and Newsweek. These partners will share the revenue earned from contextually relevant ads. This gives publishers an opportunity to introduce new readers to their content. It also tests our theory that being able to read articles faster means people will read more of them, driving more ad revenue to publishers. ...
We've also made a mobile version of Fast Flip with tactile page flipping for Android-powered devices and the iPhone, so you can browse on the go. "
Editor & Publisher: ‘Smart’ Idea: AP App Pushes Hot News
"[Jane Seagrave, AP’s senior vice president/global product development] says the AP mobile apps have proven popular, with more than 1.2 million downloads. About 75% of those apps are for the iPhone, but Seagrave points out that’s because the iPhone app was the first one AP launched. Down-loads for the Blackberry version are “creeping up” since it was made available three months ago, she adds."
New York Times: NPR Is Enhancing Its Web Site
"In the coming weeks, NPR will release free mobile applications for the iPhone, Google’s Android and Symbian-powered phones. ... One element that users will not see much of on the NPR Web site is video. An experiment a year ago of adding more video to the site particularly irked local member stations, who did not want competition from video. Video is expensive, Ms. Schiller said, and she and Mr. Wilson are not convinced of its value."
Wired: I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
"I became a geo-guinea pig. My plan: Load every cool and interesting location-aware program I could find onto my iPhone and use them as often as possible. For a few weeks, whenever I arrived at a new place, I would announce it through multiple social geoapps. ... The trouble started right away."
Wired.com: Epicenter: Online Retail’s Killer Mobile App Hasn’t Offed Anybody Yet
But while the Web 2.0 promise [of mobile price comparison tools like ShopSavvy] is tantalizing, these programs have a long way to go before they put anyone out of business.