@ pcE11: Angry Birds 'The Movie' Or 'The App'? It's Just 'The Experience'
Angry Birds is one of the the most popular game apps, but as various offshoots develop — merchandise, TV shows, more animated movies — the… Read more at paidContent »
TVGuide.com-paidContent Survey Shows Big Spike In Online, Time-Shifted TV
Consumers are watching more TV today than ever before, but that increased consumption is rapidly changing with the times. According to a new… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo Livestand: All dressed up and no place to go
On Wednesday, Yahoo released its Livestand app, which combines aspects of apps like Flipboard and Zite with the digital magazine rack concept of Apple’s Newsstand. I took the app through its paces to see how the hybrid approach holds up in the face of the competition. Read more »
FT Digital Subscriptions Have Grown Through Apple Fall-Out
The Financial Times’ digital subscriber base grew by eight percent in the period during which it pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store, as our… Read more at paidContent »
Apple reportedly planning “overhauls” for all products in 2012
Apple will be rolling out overhauls across its product lines in 2012, according to a new report. The report mentions the iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook Air specifically, which means that we could see very different versions of all of Apple’s core products in 2012. Read more »
The NFC Dance: One Step Closer With PayPal; One Step Further With Square
We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read more at paidContent »
Return to sender: Google pulls new iOS Gmail app
Google released a native Gmail client for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices, but quickly pulled the software from the iTunes App Store due to some app errors. As a long-time Android user, I like what I see in the client, but it needs work. Read more »
A Spanish Android Tablet Maker You’ve Never Heard Of Beats Apple In Court
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been going tooth and nail after big Android device makers, especially Samsung, accusing them in courts worldwide of l… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo’s IntoNow comes to the iPad with more social perks
Research indicates that 88 percent of people who own tablets use them while watching TV. Yahoo is primed to take advantage of that trend by launching an iPad version of its social TV mobile app IntoNow, with new social media features to complement TV content. Read more »
Why the decline of the iPad is highly exaggerated
Yet another analyst report has joined the chorus of those claiming Apple will see its majority market share for tablet devices slide to less than a majority by 2014-2015. It’s quickly becoming a theme, but one which I find hard to back up in reality. Read more »
iMessage 101: Group messaging
iMessage, the new free messaging service introduced in iOS 5, is easy to set up, but group messaging can be a bit harder to work out straight away. There are a couple of limitations to know about, but generally, group messages work really well with iMessage. Read more »
GarageBand comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
Apple has introduced an update for the iOS version of GarageBand that makes it compatible with iPhones and iPod touches. The universal app is available as a free update for owners of the iPad version, or it’s $4.99 if you’re buying it for the first time. Read more »
PlugBug is MacBook and iPad charging genius
PlugBug, the newest accessory from Twelve South, is a simple adapter that connects to your existing MacBook power adapter, adding a 10 W USB charger for charging your iOS devices. That means you can charge your devices faster, which will come in handy for travelers. Read more »
Thanks to iPhone 4S, iOS market share rockets in October
Net Applications has released its mobile market share numbers for October, and they show Apple gaining a lot of ground. IOS grew 7 percentage points during October, from 54.65 percent to 61.64 percent. Android grew, too, overtaking Java ME for the second spot globally. Read more »
What Mobile Consolidation? Canonical Wants Ubuntu On Smartphones, Tablets
At least one company thinks the world hungers for another mobile operating system. Canonical, the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu L… Read more at paidContent »
Interview: Zinio CEO Not Threatened By Apple’s Own Newsstand
Apple’s iOS 5, with new features like background downloading and the Newsstand folder, seems like it poses a threat to the 11-year-old digit… Read more at paidContent »
Use your iPhone or iPad to carve a cooler pumpkin
Every Halloween for the past few years, my family and I have used apps to design our jack-o-lanterns. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you do it, too, from our favorite apps to a way to include the whole family, using your Apple TV. Read more »
This is why Apple needs China
China Telecom, the No. 3 player in the Chinese mobile market, has managed to add 9 million subscribers in the third quarter and 26.4 million so far this year. No wonder mobile players such as Apple (AAPL) are so eager to get into the market. Read more »
Games for the weekend: Gears
When your kids quickly become addicted to a game, you know it has to be good. That’s what happened with Gears ($2.99) by Crescent Moon Games. Gears lures you in and then ramps up the challenge, but not so fast that you can’t keep up. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-28-11
» Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent)
» Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spin… Read more at paidContent »
Recruit your friends as curators with Smartr for iPad
Smartrhas a considerable challenge ahead of it: It’s late to the iPad and entering an already crowded market of personalized news aggregation apps like Flipboard, Pulse and the CNN-backed Zite. But some serious dedication to social interaction could help it stand out. Read more »
Samsung: Record Mobile Profits On Sales Growth Of 300 Percent
Earnings out today from Samsung show the Korean handset maker posted record sales and profits for its telecoms division, driven primarily by… Read more at paidContent »
Success of Comics on the iPad good for comics elsewhere, too
Digital comics are entering a bit of a boom era, according to recent data. Comics, the app by comiXology that acts as a one-stop digital storefront for many publishers, including DC and Marvel, has been the top grossing iPad app for six Wednesdays in a row. Read more »
Time Warner Cable Video Losses Continue, ‘Cord-Cutting Continues Apace’
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable’s earnings suggest that cable companies are not done seeing a steady erosion of video customers. The company s… Read more at paidContent »
Samsung to fast-track Australia appeal as Apple targets e-retailers
Apple is going on the offensive against online retailers who are ignoring the injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Australia, even as the South Korean electronics manufacturer has won the right to fast-track an appeal against the ban. Read more »
SoundCloud has 8 million users and a new iPad app
SoundCloud has launched a brand new iPad app, and it looks spectacular. The Berlin-based company started by Swedish entrepreneur Alexander Ljung now has 8 million creators. That is some rapid growth for the service, which had about a million users last year. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-26-11
» The Challenges That Lie Ahead For Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) (paidContent)
» Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web… Read more at paidContent »
Inkling takes iPad textbooks mainstream with cookbook launch
Inkling, the company that makes interactive, digital versions of textbooks for the iPad, is set to release its version of The Professional Chef, the official textbook of The Culinary Institute of America. It’s the first Inkling title that could have major appeal beyond the classroom. Read more »
Publishers See Apple Newsstand Sales Surge, But Ad Sales Slow To Follow
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher… Read more at paidContent »
5 things my 4-year-old taught me about technology
The good thing about being a parent is that it’s okay to be an old fart. Your kids will keep up with tech, and they’re already exploring it in fundamentally different ways. Observe them closely, and you’ll learn quite a bit about the future of technology. Read more »
Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web To Apps, Few Have Paid
Tablet owners read a lot of news, in part because the early-adopter crowd that has embraced tablets are the type of people who like to be in… Read more at paidContent »
Condé Nast subscriptions up 268% since Newsstand launch
We reported earlier that Newsstand appears to be treating digital publishers well, and new info from Condé Nast just released backs that up. The publisher of Wired and other magazines has seen digital subscriptions rise 268 percent since Newsstand arrived with the iOS 5 update. Read more »
Here’s How Social Reading Might Actually Work
Many community-based reading apps rely on the readers to get the conversation started. That’s great if your Facebook friends are sparkling l… Read more at paidContent »
Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads, High Engagement
UK free commuter newspaper Metro’s new iPad Newsstand edition has proved almost as popular within two weeks of launch as its predecessor had… Read more at paidContent »
Good news and bad news for tablets and media
A new report on tablet usage found that more than half of those surveyed use their devices to read the news, and they are reading more than they used to — but many of the sources they are using are non-traditional, and few are willing to pay. Read more »
Android leads in mobile ads; iPad ads jump 456 percent
Media released its Q3 2011 Mobile Mix report Tuesday which shows Apple continues to be the device manufacturer with the largest share of mobile ad impressions. From a mobile OS perspective, though, Android leads with 56 percent of all mobile ads served. Read more »
Thanks to iPad, tablets outsell netbooks nearly 2 to 1
Tablets are doing well compared to at least one device they seem perfectly poised to replace. According to a new study by ABI Research, led by the iPad, tablet devices are now outselling netbooks by a ratio of almost two to one. Read more »
JP Morgan: Kindle Fire expected to sell 5 million in Q4
Just weeks after dismissing the Kindle Fire as a potential challenger to the iPad, J.P. Morgan is now upping its assessment of the Amazon tablet, saying the device is expected to move 4.5 to 5 million units in the fourth quarter. Read more »
Does Apple CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android?
photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images
We now know when new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is going to have his first “What would Steve do?” moment. Early accounts of a greatly a… Read more at paidContent »
New Feature From Zite Wonders How Many People Share Tablets
There’s little doubt that tablets are changing the concept of personal computing, but we’re still learning quite a bit about exactly how tha… Read more at paidContent »
