Hey Esquire, Kate Upton Needs Scissors
As a fan of Esquire on my Apple iPad, I’ve been disappointed with their video covers. Actually, I am usually quite disappointed by all of their attempts to embed rich media throughout the tablet version of their popular magazine. That said, this video featuring Kate Upton may have just changed all that. Blatant sex appeal? ...
Students Design a Better Page Flip Experience for the iPad
Wow, students from the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence have done a beautiful job redesigning the page flip for the Apple iPad, and in the process they have created a real page turner – pardon the pun. The students created an interface that mimics how a person would flip through pages of a physical book along ...
iOS Ends 2011 with 52% of Mobile Web Browsing Market Share
Surprisingly, iOS ended the year with over 52% of the mobile web browsing market according to Net Applications. Apple iOS started 2011 with 54.07% of the mobile web browser market. Considering the recent news about Android activations I had expected to see a much larger share for the OS. Nevertheless, Android climbed from 12.75% to 16.29%, ...
How to Improve Digital Subscriptions on the Apple iPad
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple and Time Inc. have finally reached an agreement to allow print magazine subscribers of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time to access iPad editions for free directly within the magazines’ apps. Both companies initially came to an agreement to allow subscribers of People to download the iPad version ...
Apple iPhone Stalking Provides Cool Visualization
Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan announced the discovery that your Apple iPhone, or 3G iPad regularly records the position of you and your device. How long has your Apple iPhone and iPad been collecting this data? It appears that ever since iOS 4 arrived in June of 2010 Apple has stored ...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Misses the Point with iPad and Job Loss
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr.was wrong when he stood before members of the House last week and, in his attempt to tackle job loss, said that the Apple iPad was “probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs.” While I will agree with him that Apple could produce the iPad in the United States, Representative Jesse ...
Deconstructing Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily: First Look
Today Rupert Murdoch and News Corp launched The Daily. Murdoch’s vision is to create a “transformative” publication on the iPad. Every issue will feature more than 100 pages of original content, original video content, 360 degree photos and more. The Daily is “created every day of the year with original content for the iPad”, with ...
One in Four Americans Will Have a Tablet Device by 2015
Yesterday Forrester published a revised forecast for U.S. tablet sales, predicting that the device will grow as quickly as MP3 players had. The initial numbers are staggering, as Forrester expects a total of 195 million tablet sales between now and 2015. They also predict that a majority of these devices will be produced by Apple. Media companies ...
Deconstructing Richard Branson’s Project Magazine: The Content
I’ve been very intrigued with the launch of Richard Branson’s digital magazine Project. As part of that intrigue I have taken a closer look at the iPad version of Project and have begun to deconstruct the framework, content and potential of this digital-only monthly magazine. In part one I took a closer look at the ...
Deconstructing Richard Branson’s Project Magazine: The Cover
On Tuesday of this week Virgin tycoon Richard Branson stood in front of an audience of journalists and technophiles and launched what he called “the first truly digital magazine by creative people for creative people”. I purchased the first issue of Project and spent some time with it over the last day. I have quite ...
