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News Sites on the Mobile Web: Vast Room for Improvement

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Many news publishers focus their mobile strategies on platform-specific apps—but the mobile web may actually be more important, since a mobile website is easier to discover, link to, and share from a mobile device. Damon Kiesow, senior prod ...

Barnes & Noble To Take On Amazon (Again) With A New 8GB Nook Tablet

Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:39am
Barnes & Noble seemed pleasantly surprised when they announced their Nook Tablet “exceeded expectations” over the holidays, but their 70% year-over-year jump in device sales paled in comparison to rival Amazon’s 177% ...

Apps Look To Flip Monetization Switch In '12

Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:19am
If 2011’s headline for local news apps was that outlets needed to have one, the message for 2012 is that apps can make money, too. Apps are moving beyond the plant the flag, swallow the development costs stage, and they’re seeing ...

La República Relies on MILENIUM to Prepare the First Newspaper with an Empty Newsroom

Mon, 02/20/2012 - 5:17am
The Colombian newspaper La República has carried out an unprecedented technological experiment which may prove to be a watershed for the newsrooms of newspapers. The experience consisted of preparing the whole edition for a given day with ...

In Homes with Tablet Computers, Most Kids Use Them

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 3:43am
Forget dolls and footballs. About 70 percent of children in households with tablet computers used these devices, according to fourth-quarter results from research firm Nielsen. This was a 7 percent increase from the third quarter, according to Nielse ...

Atex Extends its Latin American Presence with New Office in Colombia

Thu, 02/16/2012 - 7:56am
Atex, a leading global software company providing solutions for media-rich industries, has opened a new office in Colombia. Located in Bogotá, Colombia’s largest economic centre, the office is Atex’s second in Latin Am ...

Tablet Magazine Experience Falls Short

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:13am
As magazine newsstand sales continue to plummet, publishers and markets are coming around to digital magazine formats. Consumers, too, are gravitating to these digital versions, with a large percentage of tablet users preferring digital magazines to ...

Norway-Based Newspaper Signs New Web CMS Deal With Atex

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:12am
Agderposten, a daily newspaper published in Arendal, Norway, has signed an agreement for Atex’s Web Content Management Solution. The new, advanced system will be hosted as part of the Edda Media environment and offer improved functions and ...

All 30 McClatchy Properties Choose Digital Technology for Circulation

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 3:08am
Springville, Utah (PRWEB) February 14, 2012 The McClatchy Company, the third-largest newspaper publisher in the United States, has signed an enterprise-wide agreement with Digital Technology International (DTI™) to implement DTI Circula ...

"It's Time to Experiment": Newspaper Launches First iPad-exclusive Edition in Brazil

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 5:35am
As tablets and e-readers become a growing trend for news consumers, the newspaper O Globo launched the first digital edition in Brazil designed for iPad, “O Globo a mais,” on Jan. 30. The initiative is a sign of the news industry& ...

Singapore Press Holdings Select Atex CMS for Next Generation Newsroom Capabilities

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 5:33am
Southeast Asia’s leading media organisation Singapore Press Holdings Ltd has selected Atex’s editorial content management system, which is an upgrade of SPH’s existing software. The upgraded solution will enable the com ...

App or Browser? Depends What Consumers Are Doing

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 6:12am
Mobile is more and more a go-to channel to reach consumers. With more than 75% of the US population now subscribing to a mobile phone service, according to eMarketer, and nearly 114 million consumers expected to access the internet via mobile this ye ...

Apple iPad Beats Samsung Galaxy Tab In Its Own Country

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 3:47am
Samsung is a Korean company. Apple is an American company. Who does South Korea prefer? When it comes to tablet computers, it appears that Apple is the clear winner. The Korea Herald is reporting that the Apple iPad has sold more than 1 million uni ...

USA Today’s Internal App Stats Show Amazon’s Kindle Fire Trouncing Other Android Tablets

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:24pm
Hey, looky what landed in our inbox. Here’s an interesting slide from a USA Today presentation that shows the number of downloads for each of the newspaper’s mobile apps — providing some insights into the latest trends i ...

Kooaba's New Shortcut App Wants to Kill QR Codes in Print Advertising

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 3:51am
Swiss image recognition startup Kooaba has expanded and relaunched its flagship app. Whereas previously, Paperboy was a handy way to access online content from thousands of physical newspaper titles, it’s now expanded to support wider print ...

Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March

Thu, 02/09/2012 - 3:51am
Apple’s not holding an event in February — strange, unusual or otherwise. But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad. Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor ...

Smartphone Shipments Rose 61% Worldwide in 2011, Report Says

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 7:10am
Global smartphone shipments grew massively last year as mobile handsets increased in capability and were made available at lower prices, according to International Data Corp.'s latest Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker quarterly report. In 2011, smar ...

The Washington Post Social Reader Comes to iPhone, iPod touch, Android and Kindle Fire

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 6:46am
WASHINGTON—February 7, 2012—The Washington Post announced today its popular Social Reader app for Facebook® is now available as an app for iPhone, iPod touch, Android and Kindle Fire. The Social Reader app offers the same ...

Digital Detback for Murdoch as 'Secret' iPad Project Folds

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 6:26am
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 ...

Guangming Daily to Install Goss Universal Press System

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 4:14am
Beijing based newspaper publisher Guangming Daily has ordered a new Goss Universal press to increase color capacity and to pursue more sub-contract printing in the Chinese market. The new single-width, double-circumference (2x2) press will ...