Posts tagged trends

How to Budget Megabytes Becomes More Urgent for Users

The increasing demand for data will be costing consumers more money, but will they know how much and when?

Magazine Group Offers Guidelines for Tablets

Actually picked this up from TabTimes. It’s the tip of the iceberg really. Publishers need not only a common vocabulary, but common specs, in order to develop multiplatform advertising.

Are Apps The Future of Book Publishing?

Sales trends point to an exodus from paper.

For magazine and newspaper publishers, Apple's Newsstand is a sure bet

There are some numbers missing here, like revenue, but overall it’s encouraging.

For Creators of Video Games, a Faint Line on Cloning

Another example of intellectual property theft, this time in the world of games. Where does one draw the line between inspiration and copying?

New iPad: How Apple's tablet strategy parallels its unbeatable iPod success.

It’s not a phone. It’s not a computer. It’s an iPod.

As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline of PCs

Contains useful stats on the rise of tablets over traditional PC’s.

Days Are Numbered for Unlimited Mobile Data Plans

The costs of mass internet access are going to be a pivotal factor in developing mobile publication circulation, and hence advertising sales. So the mobile world hinges on this calculation.

New Facebook Policy on Made-Up Names Lets Gaga Be Gaga

Celebrity has its privileges as social media companies compete.

The Future of Sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Google

Predictions, but based on some trends.

The Washington Post, Recast for a Digital Future

Not just the Washington Post. How newspapers are changing.

Facebook’s Mobility Challenge

Can Facebook hold its own in the burgeoning smartphone advertising market?

Facebook Is Using You

How data mining works against you.

Rawporter Wants To Make Us All (Paid) Broadcast Journalists

Twitter_Icon_Rawporter_reasonably_small.pngA startup is hoping to combine two hot web trends - crowd sourcing and microearning - into a single savior for cash-strapped, broadcast newsrooms.

Rawporter, an iPhone app that will soon be rolled out for Android, turns almost anyone into a local news cameraman or camerawoman. Instead of dispatching a camera crew to a fire during rush hour and risk they won’t get there until after the flame is out, a television news reporter can create an assignment from Rawporter’s Web interface and sned it to anyone with the app who may be in the area of the fire.