Amazon have opened up their Kindle books to any platform that supports a web browser from eBooks to iPads, to the latest Google Chrome devices, so now anyone with a website can become a Kindle book publisher. Amazon announced that their “Kindle for the Web” service will expand to enable anyone with access to a…
Tag: iPad
News
Apple to ship iPad 2 for Feb 2011?
The Digitimes has a story (Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by the end of February 2011) saying that Foxconn the manufacturer of Apple’s iPad have been given 100 days to produce and ship the first iPad 2 devices, so anyone thinking of getting a cheap subsidised iPad and who want to be cutting edge should…
News
Where to get the cheapest iPad in the UK
Subsidised iPads are here, and we have to admit we got it wrong, we predicted that they wouldn’t be on sale until after Christmas, yet here we are a week or so later eating humble pie, yes, they’re on sale before Christmas, how mad is that? However to help you choose the best deal we’ve…
News
Cheap iPads on Orange and T-Mobile
As we announced earlier subsidised iPads are now on sale at Three, and they’re now joined by Orange and T-Mobile. iPad on Orange Orange’s pay monthly subsidised iPad plans start at £199 for a 16Gb wifi + 3G, with a data plan offering 1Gb a month any time and an additional 1Gb “quiet time” eg…
News
Subsidised iPads appear on Three
Three, has now officially launched their subsidised iPads, and the pricing is very keen. The Three offer is in addition to the SIM-Only offer that it’s had since the iPad launch, and it’s only available in store, and not in all stores, the website lists around 123 stores around the UK – including Northern Ireland.…
News
The iPad may not be the great saviour of newspapers
Digital devices like the Kindle and the iPad have media companies quivering with excitement – but will people really use them to read newspapers and magazines?
Analysis, News
Subsidised iPads for Christmas? Probably not
It now seems like everyone is in the race to get a subsidised iPad out before Christmas, or are they? The releases on the subsidised iPads all point to subsidised iPads in the New Year, not pre-Christmas. In the running and in “negotiations” with Apple about delivering a subsidised iPad with a contract data plan…
Analysis, News
The iPad haves and the iPad have nots?
According to Pew Research figures, the iPad could potentially produce a wealth divide, where iPad-owning wealthy individuals gained access to data and information, that was out of the range of poor. However we think they’re missing something out in their figures. The Pew Research figures “Use of the internet in higher-income households” found that 95%…
News
Murdoch and Branson to launch iPad newspapers
Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch are to launch rival publications exclusively for Apple’s iPad. Branson’s Virgin is expected to unveil its iPad-only Project on 30 November, to be followed in early December by Murdoch’s The Daily, according to a post on the Financial Times website (Branson set to unveil iPad-only magazine). Branson’s Project is expected…
News
FT gives £300 tablet bonus to staff
The Financial Times will be giving staff a £300 rebate towards the cost of a iPad or other tablet. In the first initiative of it’s kind that we know about, the FT is going to single-handedly boost the tablet market by 1,800 units, and award Steve Jobs, Samsung, and retailers everywhere an early Christmas present…
Analysis, News
Tablets may not hit Q4 targets
Apple’s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated according to an interview with Bloomberg by US analyst Ashok Kumar of Rodman & Renshaw. Kumar expects that the current belt-tightening to have a real effect on tablet sales, as consumers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones…
News
Sofa and bed surfing on the rise
Mobile advertising marketplace Adfonic have been digging into their consumer and click-through stats, and have found a few interesting insights – particularly if you’re one of those businesses who take no account of the rise of smartphones like the iPhone and iPad. The midnight hour Adfonics hourly click patterns show that smartphone traffic starts to…
Features
iPad and iPhone best practice from Condé Nast
US publisher Condé Nast, which was the first magazine publisher to offer digital magazines (GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired and Glamour) on the iPhone and iPad, and released some key insights back in October, and we’re a bit late we know, but the advice is timeless so we’re happy to repeat it here. The insights are…
News
Android now powers 25 percent of all smartphones
The latest figures from analysts Gartner show Android is now at the heart of 25% of all smartphones worldwide, up from 3.5% at this time last year. Additionally Gartner forecasts that media tablets (such as the Apple iPad) will reach 54.8 million units in 2011. Worldwide Sales Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled…
Analysis, News
iPad app market now 14% of total Apple app store market
Distimo’s regular US monthly app report is out for the month of October and it shows that Apple app developers appear to be prone to cheating on their old-faithful iPhone with the new high-class rich thing in town the iPad. Distimo found that the proportion of iPad-only applications outgrew the proportion of universal applications during…
News
Gartner to CEOs: Seize the iPad opportunity now
Embrace the iPad or suffer the consequences Gartner tells businesses. Analysts Gartner have told businesses in the report ‘CEO Advisory: Seize the iPad Opportunity Now’ that they should ignore tablet computing at their peril, and that technologists in the business and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) should open up their networks to tablets and smartphone users.…
News
Wired UK now on iPad
Tech bible Wired, has launched an iPad version of it’s UK version. Wired UK has finally unveiled its iPad, the £2.39 download version is out alongside its December print edition priced at £3.99. The mag will be a one-off to test the market and if it works they may make it monthly. The US iPad…
News
Apple has 95% of tablet market in 3rd Quarter 2010
Global tablet shipments reached over 4 million units in the third quarter of 2010, with Apple unsurprisingly being the market leader. The latest research from Strategy Analytics, shows Apple took 95% of the global share of the tablet market beating Android into second place with just 2% of the market. However that’s due to rise…
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One million people in UK have made payment by mobile
According to new figures from PayPal released today over one million Britons have now used PayPal to make a payment or send money on their mobile phones. In Britain, PayPal saw month on month mobile transactions grow by 20% in July and August this year. PayPal UK customers already make an average of almost five…
News
Times iPad app has “changed the way we do journalism”
News International revealed on Radio 4 this morning that it had just over 50,000 monthly subscribers paying to access its digital versions of The Times and Sunday Times since it introduced its’ paywall earlier in year. Speaking on Radio 4 this morning, James Harding, Times Editor confirmed it had achieved more than 105,000 paid-for sales…