The ghost of Princess Diana’s favourite read, The Daily Express has launched an iPad edition. Designed by PageSuite, the app costs £7.99 to download and will give users an initial 30-day subscription to iPad editions of the Daily Express and Sunday Express. Individual editions, pages and videos can be downloaded to view offline. Additional features…
Day: 17 June 2010
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O2 iPhone 4 pricing announced
Anyone who pre-registered for the iPhone 4 on O2 should be getting an email with the iPhone tariffs – which we knew already – but they’re now updated with the iPhone costs. The cheapest tariff for the iPhone is £25 per month on a 24 month contract which gives 100 minutes, 500Mb of data, unlimited…
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Glastonbury 2010 stage times on mobile – sort of
Glastonbury Festival 2010 celebrates its 40th birthday this year from Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June at Worthy Farm The full line-ups including all the stage times across the 45 different stages have now been released online at the official Glastonbury site http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/lineuptimes/ and they’re all in simple text format, so that the mud-happy…
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Disney first off the block with trending twitters
Disney/Pixar is the first brand to advertise on Twitter’s new sponsored trending topics. In April Twitter finally announced how it was going to repay all their VC funding, and the first part of a multi-stage commercial model, was promoted tweets, which enables brands to feature more prominently in relevant search results and in people’s news…
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iPhone 4 winning in analyst sweepstakes
Mobile analysts have upped their guesstimates for iPhone 4 sales, following the demand for the wunder-phone on its first day of pre-orders. In a research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster changed his iPhone sales targets for both the quarters ending in June and September to 9.5 million from 8.5 million. He wrote that Apple…
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Android catching up on iPhone lead
Mobile data analysts Quantcast have released their monthly figures for vendor and operating systems and once again Apple is on top of the vendors, but when it comes to operating systems Google’s Android is starting to fight back. Quantcast’s May figures for operating systems show Apple’s IOS at 72.6% with RIM at 10% and Android…
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Argos app hits 500,000 downloads in three weeks
Argos has revealed today that “strong consumer demand” and above-the-line marketing support – a TV ad and a iPhone press ad – for the Argos iPhone app has resulted in more than 500,000 downloads in just three weeks, and on one day Saturday 28 May 2010 the retailer had over 40,000 downloads. The Argos app…