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Why Is There A Hyperlink In A Newspaper?

6:00PM January 28, 2012 | Roberto Baldwin

A lot has been said about how newspapers need to embrace the internet and tablets in order to survive. Apparently, this newspaper has already figured out how to embed interactive features in paper. Bravo! More »

Software

iOS 5′s Newsstand Is More Awesome Than You Think

2:30PM October 13, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The first wave of magazines supporting Apple’s Newsstand feature on iOS 5 went live today, which is good news. In theory, Newsstand isn’t that big of a deal. But using it, you realise it’s something more. More »

News

Steve Jobs Remembered On Front Pages Around The World

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11:10AM October 7, 2011 | Elly Hart and Mario Aguilar

Thanks to Steve Jobs, it’s way more likely that you learned about his death from a smartphone than a newspaper, but editors all over the world paid tribute to Jobs’s impact with impressive, often sentimental, front pages. More »

Computing

Why A Publisher’s Tablet Is A Terrible, Terrible Idea

1:51AM August 10, 2011 | brent rose

CNN is onto a leak that The Tribune (the owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun to name just a few) is on the verge of releasing its very own tablet. WHY?? More »

Mobile

Paul McCartney: My Phone Was Hacked

11:20AM August 5, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Paul McCartney revealed today that his phone was possibly hacked. Sir Paul is on tour in the US and will discuss this hacking with police when he returns to Britain. More »

Online

The NYT’s Top 50 Words You Don’t Understand

8:20AM July 29, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

If you aren’t sure what panegyric, immiscible or Manichaean mean (or if they’re even really English), fear not! Turns out nobody else does either. These literary head-scratchers are among the 50 most obscure words used by the New York Times this year. More »

Online

Why Newspapers Suck At The Internet

9:00AM July 28, 2011 | Casey Chan

Seriously guys. We like you, we’ll even pay you. This internet thing isn’t that hard! More »

Online

Biggest Lie The Internet Ever Told: Free Everything, All The Time

4:10AM July 28, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Since you clicked your first link, you were promised one thing about the internet: You may have to pay a cover charge, but once you’re in, everything’s free. Except that suddenly doesn’t seem as true anymore. You know what? Good. More »

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Future For Print: Store Made With 1800 Copies Of New York Times

10:40AM July 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

Newspapers! They’ve finally found their purpose in our digital age! And it’s to be… building bricks for retail kiosks. 1800 issues of the New York Times will clad this kiosk located in Grand Central Terminal in New York City. More »

Online

LulzSec’s UK Sun Hack, Explained

5:34AM July 20, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The Guardian has the lowdown on how LulzSec’s primetime hack of the UK Sun went down. It happened in two phases: one was discovering an exploit in the “contact us” section. The other was the discovery of a retired server. More »