Technology
Many big-name retailers are
partnering with banks, payment processors and Google to let shoppers
tap their mobile phones instead of swiping their credit cards to pay for
goods. But the new mode of payment is not expected to take off in
earnest for at least another couple of years.
Priced at just $199.99, the Archos 70b may be the best tablet
alternative to the Amazon Kindle Fire and other cheap tablets, which run
older non-tablet optimized versions of Android.
News360 is a news aggregator that can be customized around the user’s tastes and past media consumption patterns.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt told an Italian
newspaper that the company will release its own tablet within six months
to challenge the Apple iPad.
Appssavvy has announced that it has picked up $7.1 million in funding with AOL’s AOL Ventures as one of its new investors.
The Herald-Tribune and its entertainment site, TicketSarasota.com, have launched a new iPhone application. Ticket Sarasota is available free through the App Store at apple.com/apps.
One of the sessions at news:rewired – media in motion will look at how newsgames and gaming mechanics are being used in journalism.
Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, said customers have bought about 1 million of its Kindle e-book readers and tablets in each of the past three weeks, the most detailed sales numbers the company has released.
The Associated Press announced the launch of software technology that automates the proofing process for AP style.
Paperboy, the flagship app of Swiss start-up, kooaba, just added a new dimension to the way we experience print media. It’s now possible to directly participate in a real time discussion with other readers of a publication.
ProPublica rolled out a new look for small screens that’s pliable and flexible enough to fit across device types and that runs off of the same code as the big-screen site.
Covering countries in political turmoil has opened the door to innovation: activists and citizen journalists are using maps, HTML5 and video to report the events of the Arab Spring instead of relying only on text.
Facebook Inc. plans its first push into mobile advertising by the end of March, giving the company a fresh source of revenue ahead of a possible initial public offering.
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