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Saturday, November 7, 2009
AP/Verve Wireless to Help Publishers Build Apps The Associated Press in conjunction with Verve Wireless is offering publishers a way to customize and launch mobile applications for Android, Blackberry iPhone, Nokia, Palm Pre and Windows Mobile phones. - November 06, 2009
Caspio Deploys Cloud-based SEO Caspio Inc., provider of a cloud-computing platform for creating Web applications without programming, has released its new search engine optimization deployment method, enabling Web publishers to make their data available to the largest possible audience. The company also released its latest version of Caspio Bridge. - November 05, 2009
Outsell Partners With Web Analytics Co. Outsell Research is the latest company to jump in the paid-content fray by partnering with Issaquah, Wash.-based Scout Analytics. The Outsell Scout Analytics service is aimed at helping media companies increase revenue with paid content and subscriptions. - November 04, 2009
'San Diego U-T' Relaunches Web Site The Web site of The San Diego Union-Tribune got a new look and has expanded classified listings from Monster and Auto Trader. - November 04, 2009
WoodWing Offers Hosted Service for iPhone App At the IFRA Exp in Vienna earlier this month, WoodWing Software announced a hosted service for publishers to offer readers a branded iPhone newsreader via the Apple App Store, allowing them to deliver content from their content management system directly to the iPhone. - October 30, 2009
Philly.com Appoints New President Ryan Davis has been named president of philly.com. He was previously the director of strategic operations for Philadelphia Media Holdings (PMH). - October 26, 2009
Local-Content Provider Examiner.com Expands to Canada Examiner.com, which serves 109 markets in the U.S. as an insider source for local content ranging from breaking news to arts & entertainment to sports, has announced it is expanding to Canada, via the launch of Examiner.com Canada. - October 26, 2009
Will E-readers Help Save the Newspaper Industry? E-readers will save the publishing industry. E-readers will become the mobile equivalent to the eight track tape. The answer, of course, likely lies somewhere in between these two extremes. - October 26, 2009
E Ink, Freescale at Work on eBook System-on-a-Chip E Ink Corp, the developer of "electronic paper" display technology used in many eBooks, and Freescale Semiconductor, provider of eBook processors and other industrial- and consumer-electronics embedded processors, are collaborating on development of solutions to lower costs and foster innovation for eBooks. - October 23, 2009
Brown Publishing Company Names Online Editor for Southwest Region Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal and Brown Publishing Company (BPC) Group Publisher Pamela Stricker announced on Tuesday that Lora Abernathy had been named to the newly created role of online editor for Brown Publishing's southwest region in Ohio. - October 21, 2009
Adobe, Barnes & Noble Collaborate on eBook Formats, Content Protection Software developer Adobe Systems and bookseller Barnes & Noble have announced they are joining to standardize the open ePub and PDF eBook formats and will collaborate on a content-protection standard. - October 21, 2009
E-Reader, Other Conversions from soliDAM Among exhibitors at last week's IFRA Expo in Vienna, where mobile solutions were widely offered, and e-readers in particular having been the subject of an IFRA conference only days earlier, Dutch company soliDAM b.v. positioned itself as the go-to guys for e-reader solutions. - October 21, 2009
TownNews.com to Use AP Microformat hNews TownNews.com said it is incorporating the Associated Press' new format templates hNews in its new BLOX Web content management system. The AP and Media Standards Trust, a British nonprofit, developed the format earlier this year to help the new industry adopt consistent news formats for online content. - October 20, 2009
IREX to Offer Access to 1,100 Newspapers and Periodicals The IREX digital reader plans to offer consumers access to more than 1,100 magazines and newspapers such as The Austin American-Statesman, The Washington Post, and The New York Times through partnerships with NewspaperDirect and LibreDigital. - October 19, 2009
Online Video App Newsy, Staffed by Mizzou J-Students, Popular on iTunes Store Newsy.com's video news analysis application, which trains student journalists in a partnership with the University of Missouri, was ranked No. 6 Thursday on the list of free apps in the News category in the iTunes App Store. - October 15, 2009
Study: Men More Willing than Women to Adapt to Digital, Online Platforms Independent media agency TargetCast:tcm has released a consumer trend report that reveals differences in how men and women engage with traditional media. The study also points to generational differences in the ways digital media is perceived and consumed. - October 09, 2009
Real-time, Relevant Ads Matched With Real-time News? What a Concept! Want to monetize those breaking-news traffic surges? Real-time ads contextually paired with real-time news just might turn news Web sites' remnant ad space into high-value ad space, which will be particularly lucrative when big news happens in your town. - by Steve Outing - October 21, 2009
Your News Content Is Worth Zero to Digital Consumers News publishers expecting to make money from their digital readers will need to figure out how to offer something tangible -- and mobile represents big-time opportunity, especially for phone applications. - by Steve Outing - September 16, 2009
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