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CNN’s new iPad app utilises big images and high quality video to make news reading more visually engaging than it’s ever been before. And let me tell you: it’s a hell of a lot nicer than pecking through headlines.
A study from The Reynolds Journalism Institute in the US has found that iPad users like using the device to stay up to date on the latest news. Big surprise! But they also found that of those who use newspaper apps to facilitate this news-getting, more than half are planning on cancelling their newspaper subscription. So is this good or bad for the papers?
It seems like Apple and News Corp are indeed in cahoots on The Daily, a new iPad-only newspaper that would be the first support the iTunes subscription billing, and John Gruber says he’s hearing December 9 as a potential date for it’s announcement event. The 9th, he notes, is a Thursday, so it’s possible it might get pushed to the week after, perhaps arriving along with the Mac App Store. [Daring Fireball via SAI]
The NBN was one of the key issues of the recent federal election and ended up swaying two out of three of the independents to give Labor power. Since then, it’s become a somewhat tedious battle of the ridiculous between Conroy and Turnbull. But given that it’s going to be the backbone of our information economy for decades to come, we should be paying attention to what’s happening with its development. So welcome to the new weekly wrap-up of “What happened with the NBN this week?”
If you want the best possible network inside your home, you’ll need to run Cat6 cable through the home. Doesn’t matter if you’re on fibre, cable or ADSL, Cat6 running through your walls is the only way to get the best possible speeds in the home. Having it installed professionally will cost you up to $400 per room. And doing so has absolutely nothing to do with the NBN.
If there’s one app on the iTunes App Store that exemplifies ease of use and brilliant, entertaining content, it’s the ABC app. Leveraging their experience across both television and radio, the ABC app gives iPhone users direct access to the content they want. For free. What more can you ask for?
One of the best iPhone apps out there is the ABC’s app – it offers all the latest news, videos and podcasts for free. So why would anyone want to pay $2.50 a month for Fairfax content on the iPhone?
Google has announced that despite Wave’s demise as a Google App, its open source code will continue to be developed into a fully-functional application available to anyone with the desire to host it.
