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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Canada's Gesca is First to Use Nstein Semantic Site Search Nstein Technologies Inc. has released Semantic Site Search (3S), "a front-end, multi-index search engine" that leverages Nstein text-mining technology to power a faceted site search for accurate, categorically organized results. The first 3S customer, Canadian publisher Gesca, expects to use of 3S capability to deploy topical microsites. - November 20, 2009
'Dallas Morning News' Launches Shopping, Social Media Portal The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday launched DFWblastoff.com, a portal featuring an online shopping mall with more than 400 retailers and social media network that rewards users for inviting friends to shop on the site. - November 18, 2009
About.com Appoints Two VPs The New York Times Co. announced that Jeff Moriarty has been named senior vice president/product manager of About.com and Evan Minskoff has been appointed vice president, marketing of the About Group. - November 17, 2009
'National Post' Available with Kindle's Canadian Debut Weeks after its availability elsewhere, the Kindle e-reader from Amazon.com Inc. has been introduced in Canada, relying on the Whispernet 3G network on the AT&T Global Network. Canwest announced that The National Post, and soon all its big-city dailies, also will be available on Kindle devices. - November 17, 2009
AP Rolls Out Windows Mobile App The Associated Press has launched a mobile application for Smartphones operating on the Windows Mobile platform. According to the AP, the app is now the top news app and the fourth most popular in the Windows Marketplace. - November 16, 2009
Caspio Supplying PaaS Solution to bizjournals Inc. Online business news publisher bizjournals Inc. has chosen Caspio Inc. for an enterprise solution to build and deploy database-driven cloud applications. The arrangement "will help us leverage ... proprietary data products we produce ... as well as open new doors for our reporters to share more data and analysis with our readers," bizjournals said. - November 11, 2009
NewsPaperDirect Launches PressReader for iPhone, BlackBerry NewspaperDirect has launched iPhone and BlackBerry versions of its PressReader application. Owners of the popular smartphones can download from a selection of more than 1,300 newspapers and magazines at PressDisplay.com. The free PressReader applications are available for immediate download from the Apple and RIM sites. - November 11, 2009
Truviso Offers Instant Online Tracking and Analysis Real-time analytics company Truviso today unveiled technology that enables advertising networks, Web publishers and other digital services providers to track hundreds of millions of unique users across various dimensions and instantly obtain analyses of user interactions. - November 11, 2009
Boston.com Launches New Sports Section Boston.com launched a newly designed sports section as ESPN focuses on several local sports sites in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. - November 09, 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
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
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