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Taking On Apple's App Store: Stepping Toward Portability?

It seems that the mobile phone market has matured a bit and decided that the Apple app store just wasn't working for them by creating the Wholesale App Community (WAC). It's supposed to be an app store for everyone, as Ian Paul writes: Read more »

iPad About Future of Media and Content?

Money PropConsider PHD Perspectives: The iPad isn't About Apps: It's About the Future of Media and Content:

...3rd party support for the iPad will not come from unenthusiastic developers. Rather, it will come from content publishers. Context experiences from media companies like newspaper and magazine publishers, blogs, book publishers, TV studios, and sports leagues will make the iPad valuable. Without this outside support, the iPad will fester as an expensive way to browse the Web, something competitors will quickly match at lower price-points...

When I read that I thought, What a publisher-centric way of looking at things. Let me explain. Read more »

Content Limiting Versus The World

As far back as the publishing industry goes it has limited content availability by limiting the media. Read more »

Apple's iPad To Increase eBook Prices? Bad Apple.

A Culture Soon DeadThe Reuters article, Amazon Surrenders In Weekend E-Book Battle, starts off with an interesting tidbit:

The under ten-buck e-book may soon be a thing of the past. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon (AMZN) stopped selling books from publisher Macmillan on Sunday due to a dispute over e-book pricing. While the company says it plans to eventually resume sales, it has admitted that it will probably have to give in to Macmillan’s push for higher per-title pricetags more in line with those that Apple (AAPL) has proposed for the iPad...

Let me start off with a few things. Read more »

iPhones Now Required For First Aid?

Quick post: Dan Wolley's iPhone and first aid applications are getting credit for saving his life.

Press pause.

Basic first aid involves the ABCs. Airway, Breathing, Circulation. Bleeding falls under 'C' - circulation. Lets face it, 'ABB' just isn't as memorable. So basic first aid does include control of bleeding.

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