Content for mobile is proving to be a major growth area for traditional publishers, who are adapting the practice of optimizing their publications for e-readers, smartphones and other mobile devices at a breakneck pace. 85% of the magazines in the […]
Although the availability of broadband internet service has become more widespread and the cost of decent desktop setups is ever dropping, many Americans still find those seemingly basic technological comforts to be out of reach. Computers alone often cost hundreds […]
Research in Motion (RIM) is investigating reports of BlackBerry delays, but has not confirmed any particular scope of delay nor any region specifically impacted by a new BlackBerry outage. The company tweeted roughly an hour ago: We’re getting reports that […]
Sometimes it seems the very best technical innovations are a) the absolute simplest and b) something you cannot believe someone hasn’t already invented before and that you are not using on a daily basis already. Enter Drinkify. Winner of the […]
Facebook integration with streaming music services like MOG and Spotify has had a massive impact on the apps, Facebook says in a new post to their developer blog. The social network points to f8 as a catalyst for the explosion […]
GoogleTV has partnered up with a perhaps seemingly unlikely ally- adult video production company Vivid Entertainment- to bring 24 hours a day of streaming adult content to their app. Vivid.com subscribers with a Google TV set top box can now […]
Back in August, Reddit spun off its popular gift-exchange arm to a separate site, RedditGifts. At the time, the social aggregator took on the subreddit’s two mods as full-time employees, and now the newly-minted former subreddit is launching its first […]
After tumbling in the later part of October on news a glitch had impeded traffic significantly, stock in Demand Media was revealed to have slightly better than expected Q3 earnings on a call Monday. Losses were more than halved in […]
Last month, Netflix announced that after first expanding to Canada and then Latin America, their long awaited launch in the United Kingdom and Ireland was official and imminent. Two weeks later, the company has announced a partnership with film studio […]
Mainstream media sources still like to have a bit of a go at the blogosphere, painting the same blogs they cite for a growing amount of their digital content as imprecise, unpolished opinion pieces published from the comfort of somebody’s […]
Although the two parties appeared to call a legal truce this summer over the streaming of popular content from channels like MTV and Comedy Central via iPad, the “standstill agreement” seems to have moved away from the possibility of litigation-free […]
After a delay, Yahoo has finally launched its Flipboard competitor Livestand, bringing much of the company’s copious content to the iPad. Like Flipboard before it, the app is tailored to take the content from across Yahoo’s third-party content network to […]
In an effort to lure more Amazon customers to its paid Prime membership program, Amazon has launched a book lending library for Amazon Prime subscribers. The service costs $79 per year (with discounted rates for students and moms) and entitles […]
While the controversial paywall implemented by the New York Times has not yet managed to offset print losses, there is some good circulation news that the paper of record can chalk up to the move. Several papers across the country […]
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