All things Apple!
iPhone users who bought the This American Life app were surprised to receive a solicitation for donations Thursday via the app’s push notification system. Longtime fans know that the program—like all public radio shows—regularly asks listeners for financial support, but the pushed message for donations felt a bit off-putting. Getting a donation pitch during or …
We’re gearing up for Computex, and so is X2, apparently. The iTablet (which has been announced and then failed to materialize in the past) will be making an appearance at the show with not one but five variants. Seems like they’re throwing the kitchen sink at us to see what will stick, eh? According to …
Say what you will about traditional media and the continually shrinking size of print magazines, but we’ve got some proof right here that good ‘ol pulp still has a lot of life left. French publishing house les éditions volumiques has been doing research into new and… interesting ways to use the print medium and to …
If you’re one of the people around the world buying an iPad today, you might want to check out Apple’s iBooks e-reading app (you might also want to call in sick to work, as you won’t be getting much done today). But when you flip the virtual bookcase to enter the store, you’ll be disappointed: …
The iPad has officially hit Europe today (though some lucky duckies got theirs a bit early), and contrary to earlier descriptions of the iBookstore as being “US only” it seems UK virtual bookshelves are now receiving some decidedly in-copyright texts to fill in the gaps between the dusty, out-of-copyright volumes previously available. Prices are displayed …
The Times joined the Financial Times as the only national UK newspaper with a news app for iPad’s international launch Friday morning. Yes, it’s pay-for, but there’s an entirely different pricepoint from the new websites, which will soon charge £1 a day, £2 a week or free with print… It’s £9.99 every 28 days. But …
Having made its international debut earlier this week, only with nothing but out-of-copyright titles to choose from, Apple’s iBookstore has now started to fill up with more modern fare. Coinciding, unsurprisingly, with the international launch of the iPad, the UK iBookstore now has titles from Bernard Cornwell, Tony Parsons and Malcolm Gladwell, among many others. …
