Media Week: Standard creates BA sponsored mobile app
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 07:48
"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."
Editor & Publsiher: ‘WSJ’ Reveals More Details of Mobile Subscription Offering
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 19:51
"Effective Oct. 24, Wall Street Journal … mobile-only subscription will cost $2 per week. WSJ.com-only subscribers will be charged $1 a week. Those who receive both the print and online editions will receive free access to the mobile content."
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."
CJR: WSJ’s Free iPhone App: Rupert “Displeased”
Monday, 4 May 2009, 08:43
"I’m told by a Dow Joneser familiar with the matter that … Rupert Murdoch himself said he was “displeased” that his company’s valuable content is being given away free on the iPhone and BlackBerry and that his displeasure has been made clear more than once to those responsible for mobile."
Wired.com: Wall Street Journal iPhone App Sets Content Free
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 08:22
"The Wall Street Journal, one of the few newspapers that charges for content online, released an app for the iPhone Wednesday which sets their content free, poking another hole in one of the internet's oldest pay walls."
New York Times: As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 14:47
"The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country, upending deliberations and infuriating judges. … Judges have long amended their habitual warning about seeking outside information during trials to include Internet searches. But with the Internet now as close as a juror’s pocket, the risk has grown more immediate — and instinctual."
New York Times: A Trove of Clues From Smartphones for Marketers
Saturday, 14 March 2009, 09:39
"Advertisers already tailor ads for small groups of consumers on the Web based on personal information. But cellphones have a much higher potential for personalized advertising, especially when they use applications like Yelp or Urbanspoon with GPS to identify a person’s location, right down to the street corner where they are standing."
Guardian: Guardian News & Media to relaunch mobile website
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 11:47
About time, too: "The new mobile website, m.guardian.co.uk, will work across all major handheld web browsers, including Apple's iPhone and the BlackBerry."
Brand Republic: Wall Street Journal expands global websites
Monday, 9 February 2009, 18:43
"The Wall Street Journal has expanded its European and Asian web sites, and launched a dedicated India site, with more regionally relevant content, streamlined navigation and multimedia features."
Press Gazette: The Wire: FT.com relaunches mobile site for the iPhone
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 14:38
Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com: "[A]lthough the site works on any phone, optimisation for the iPhone and BlackBerry which together account for over 60 per cent of FT.com mobile traffic"
