Newspaper Association of America: Moving to Mobile
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:50
"'Moving to Mobile' is a growth and development guide from the Newspaper Association of America that covers the many aspects of mobile for newspapers. This includes information on advertising and local search, setting up and running mobile programs, reaching youth and the state of e-readers. It also includes case studies from newspapers finding success in this area."
Jack Schofield: Is the Kindle ebook reader becoming Amazon’s iPod? | Technology | The Guardian
Friday, 15 August 2008, 17:43
"Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney has just doubled his projections for Kindle sales to 378,000 units for this year, 934,000 next year and 4.4m in 2010. "Turns out the Kindle is becoming the iPod of the book world," he told Citigroup clients."
TweetSMS
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 14:57
"As of Thursday 14th August 2008, Twitter is no longer sending out-going SMS customers to the thousands of international twitter users! … tweetSMS is here to bridge that gap."
American Journalism Review: Handheld Headlines
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 23:28
"James Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, says that news companies are positioning themselves with mobile offerings because they anticipate audience growth in the next few years."
American Journalism Review: Handheld Headlines
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 23:28
"James Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, says that news companies are positioning themselves with mobile offerings because they anticipate audience growth in the next few years."
BBC News: Italians dial up best food price
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 22:44
"[A] text system set up jointly by the Italian agriculture ministry and consumer associations, shoppers can check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern Italy."
BBC News: Italians dial up best food price
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 22:44
"[A] text system set up jointly by the Italian agriculture ministry and consumer associations, shoppers can check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern Italy."
New York Times: Bits: How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 06:39
"Verve Wireless’s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper on their cell phones."
BBC News: Boom times ahead for mobile web
Friday, 25 July 2008, 18:40
"Research carried out for [chipmaker Intel] suggests portable net-enabled devices will grow to 1.2 billion by 2012 as the need to be connected increases."
Friday, 27 June 2008, 11:48
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The full report is now avilable from the Medill Journalism School team studying the impact of location-based technologies on journalism.
Monday, 23 June 2008, 10:07
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In a presentaion given as part of a job interview, Joanna Geary notes that according to Ofcom, two-thirds of people in Birmingham use mobiles to access the Internet and that this representes a huge, untapped market for regional papers.
Monday, 9 June 2008, 19:40
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"Apple has introduced … the iPhone 3G … The phone will also include a GPS chip to enable more accurate location-based services."
Monday, 9 June 2008, 13:06
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"In addition to rifling through telephone records for a year from 2005 to 2006 to determine the extent of contacts between management and journalists, it now looks as though Telekom was also using mobile phone signals to keep track of their locations."
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:47
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"For years, Deutsche Telekom hired outside companies to spy on journalists and members of its own supervisory board, hoping to uncover internal leaks."
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