newspapers
software

iOS 5′s Newsstand Is More Awesome Than You Think

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.

7 October 2011

News

Steve Jobs Remembered On Front Pages Around The World

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.

10 August 2011

Computing

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

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??

5 August 2011

mobile

Paul McCartney: My Phone Was Hacked

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.

29 July 2011

Online

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

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.

28 July 2011

Online

Why Newspapers Suck At The Internet

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

Online

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

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.

27 July 2011

Geek Out

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

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.

20 July 2011

Online

LulzSec’s UK Sun Hack, Explained

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.

19 July 2011

Online

One Year Of The New York Times As Told By 12,000 Screenshots

Phillip Mendonça-Vieira made a mistake, a wonderful mistake. For over a year, he accidentally ran a cron task that captured a screenshot of the New York Times‘ front page twice an hour, 24 hours a day.

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