Gizmodo: It’s Time to Declare War Against Apple’s Censorship
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:58
"Stern—a very large weekly news magazine—published a gallery of erotic photos as part of its editorial content. It wasn't gratuitous: It was just part of the material published in the magazine itself, integrated in their usual sections. The entire app was taken down, according to the Spiegel, and publisher Gruner + Jahr had to eliminate that content in order for the application to go up to the store again. They learnt their lesson, since they haven't published any other material that may offend Apple's "moral police"—as the German press calls it."
Spiegel Online: Undressing with the iPhone: App ‘Censorship’ Has German Tabloid Fighting Mad
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:57
"German tabloid Bild wanted to allow readers to undress their daily page one girl on their iPhones. But the app has run afoul of Apple's decency standards, leading the paper to accuse the US computer giant of censorship."
Techcrunch: Vogue’s New iPhone App Will Style Your Wardrobe And Please Advertisers
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 10:29
"Vogue Magazine is launching an innovative iPhone app that takes a page from social fashion startups like Polyvore and the Like.com’s Couturious. The free app, called the Vogue Stylist, is meant to be used by women to do exactly what its name indicates: help style women’s wardrobes."
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'"
Wired.co.uk: Mobile news apps vs tweet-led link economy
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 08:43
Peter Kirwan: "Promiscuity is limited by the opportunity for discovery. Searching for alternatives to stories that pop up inside your app will cost you time. And for most mobile users, that's a commodity in short supply. On this basis, it's a racing certainty that some news publishers perceive apps as a way of putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again, on the mobile web at least. … Suddenly, our work-flavoured, ADD-like, promiscuity-fuelled browsing for atomised content on laptops seems like just one scenario among others."
Washington Post: Howard Kurtz on the Media
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 08:10
Howard Kurtz: "I'm told [a Washington Post iPhone app] is in the works and may be ready in the coming weeks."
Press Gazette: iPhone apps for Trinity Mirror nationals and websites
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 18:01
"[Trinity Mirror] will provide apps for its Daily Record and Daily Mirror newspapers free of charge; however it intends to charge a fee – which is yet to be set – for the [3am.co.uk and Mirrorfootball.co.uk] website apps when they launch in the New Year."
paidContent:UK: DMGT Planning 15 iPhone Apps In 2010, But Why Do Newspapers Love iTunes?
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 08:37
Patrick Smith: "why are news publishers—everyone from Reuters … to the Daily Star—so keen on smartphone users downloading bits of software when there’s a perfectly good internet out there that displays everyone’s content available to everyone?"
Independent: British press split in two by Wapping’s great gamble
Monday, 23 November 2009, 06:58
Great summary of the state of the paywall debate among UK national newspapers by Ian Burrell. Emily Bell of the Guardian: "This is not about newspaper publishing, this is about news, content and analysis on the internet and as long as you keep making the category error that says newspaper publishers are different you won’t make any progress."
Journalism.co.uk: Manchester Evening News launches iPhone news app
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 18:20
"The Manchester Evening News (MEN) has become one of the first UK regional titles to launch a news application for the iPhone."
paidContent:UK: Guardian.co.uk Planning Paid-For iPhone App
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 11:07
"[W]hile the main Guardian.co.uk website will remain free … it appears that its iPhone app itself will be paid-for, unlike several Guardian rivals."
The Boston Globe: Boston to debut ‘killer app’ for municipal complaints
Monday, 6 July 2009, 20:11
"City officials will soon debut Boston’s first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances – nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights – and e-mail them to City Hall to be fixed."
The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Apps that feed your nose for news
Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 14:51
A nice collection of links to news apps for the iPhone…
