by: Ian Burrell, Martin Hickman | The Independent

A year after Rupert Murdoch described the iPad as the tool that would make newspapers "viable again", News International has abandoned a project to produce content for the company's brand on the Apple tablet and similar devices.

Project Two22, a secret initiative named after the building in London's Gray's Inn Road where it was based, has been wrapped up after being branded a failure, The Independent has learned.