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Mountain Lion creeps forward: new features in the developer preview
In February, we took a look at smaller changes in the pre-release version of OS X Mountain Lion that Mac developers are using. These changes are good indications of what we’ll see when the final version goes live sometime this summer. Apple has released two new previews since then with quit...
Get over it, haters - apps really are the future, says Wired publisher
There has been a growing revolt in the publishing community against the idea that iPhone and iPad apps are the best route to digital dollars. The Financial Times shuttered its apps this month, while a popular essay by another publisher lamented that apps were a “collective delusion” a...
Content, not hardware, has made tablets the current king
Tablets may be a hot item now, but they're just getting started. By 2016, 34 percent of the U.S. population - 112.5 million - will own tablets, making them the fastest adopted consumer electronics device in history. But tablets alone won't be the big story in the coming years according to James M...
Financial Times exec: iOS apps don't work for publishers
It's been close to a year since the Financial Times left the iTunes app store to launch a a web app for its paid content, and FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw told the audience at GigaOM's paidContent 2012 conference that this move has more than paid off. "It's been a tremendous experie...
Apple scourge Lodsys continues patent rampage against developers, corporations
Patent troll Lodsys became infamous after it extracted a license from Apple only to turn around and sue small iOS app developers for including features like in-app purchasing in their products. But one startup is now taking a stand and has asked a federal court to examine the case.Lodsys, a shell...
This Sesame Street app will potty-train your kid
Hope you’ve got a screen protector…Sesame Street has a new iOS app, “Potty Time with Elmo,” that is aimed at kids and parents going through the potty-training process.The app, from Sesame Workshop and Publications International, is based on the bestselling book of the same...
Inkling will sell iPad textbooks in over 900 college bookstores
iPad textbook publisher Inkling is partnering with college bookstore provider Follett. Starting this fall, Follett will sell “hundreds of Inkling titles” in its over 900 college bookstores — including Stanford and UC Berkeley — and on its website.Titles include popular und...
Judge comes down hard on publishers, Apple in e-book case
In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote rejected requests by Apple and five book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing.Citing ongoing state, federal and international antitrust investigations, Cote turned down arguments that Apple and th...
ESPN: No talks yet about Apple TV authentication
As the most powerful programming brand on cable television, you’d expect that ESPN would spend the day of its upfront presentation bolstering its still-very-lucrative linear television business.But the Disney-owned sports channel spent most of Tuesday hyping — and shooting down rumors...
Apple TV rumor mill makes millions as iTV 'confirmed'
Apple may not be buying a high-design German home entertainment device maker, but that doesn’t mean investors in the rumoured target company won’t make a killing – and it doesn’t mean they won’t still have a part to play in Apple’s iTV.This is a classic weekend...
