BBC News: Mobile firms unite to offer applications
Monday, 15 February 2010, 15:28
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
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 09:19
"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
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 10:51
"[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
Monday, 27 July 2009, 07:12
"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
Sunday, 25 January 2009, 16:18
"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
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 18:29
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.
