Apple has supposedly been pitching networks on lower prices for TV shows, cutting the current standard from $1.99 to 99¢. If a report in the New York Times is accurate, it...
Cult Favorite: Digital Content Provider Zinio is an iPad Dream Partner
What it is: Zinio, in partnership with major publishers of traditional books and magazines, offers subscription-based digital content over the Internet and via its iPhone/iPod Touch native app available free in the iTunes AppStore.
Why it’s cool: Zinio has spent the past 10 years helping people get...The Real Reasons iPhone/iPad Won’t Ever Support Flash – They Can’t
UPDATE: The gentleman in the video above is Daniel Eran Dilger, author of the Roughly Drafted blog referenced in the post below. I regret any confusion my failure to identify him may have caused. – Lonnie Lazar
Don’t just take Steve Jobs’ word for it. Full-time...iPhone accessories from Toy Fair 2010
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Apple blocks screenshots, axes sexual content from App Store (Updated)
Apple is stirring up yet another censorship brouhaha with its latest changes to App Store policy. The company recently began blocking screenshots for apps that are outside the acceptable age range in...
Steve Jobs Blasts Flash In Meeting With WSJ Editors — Report
Steve Jobs unloaded on Flash during a meeting with Wall Street Journal executives last week, according to Gawker.
Jobs met with editors of the Journal to show them the new iPad. The Journal make widespread use of Flash on its website for video, infographics, etc., and editors...iBookstore won’t mean the disappearance of $9.99 e-books
Publishers happily signed on to distribute e-books for the iPad via Apple's iBookstore, in part because it allowed more flexibility in pricing books above Amazon's $9.99 ceiling on new and bestselling titles. Though prices are expected to be in the range...
HBO Go streaming video coming to Verizon this week
HBO's online streaming service, HBO Go, will soon exit beta status and be accessible to Verizon FiOS customers beginning this Thursday, February 18. Those subscribers will have access to more than 600 hours of HBO programming online, though they won't be able to cut the cord just yet—access to Go...
Warner succeeds in bullying Redbox into 28-day release delay
Only a month after Netflix announced it was giving into Warner Bros. and delaying new releases, DVD rental kiosk company Redbox has decided to do the same. Warner announced Tuesday that...
Newspapers, magazines less keen on iPad than book publishers
Though book publishers were more than happy to jump on the iBookstore bandwagon in order to give them leverage against Amazon's $9.99 e-book prices, magazine and newspaper publishers have remained cautious. Apple's 30 percent take of sale prices and historical practice...
Video: See Wired Magazine For iPad In Action
Here’s some video of Wired’s digital version of the magazine in action.
Check out the amazing 360 of the car ad at the 1.33 point. A glossy magazine ad comes to life and you’re able rotate it with your finger. It’s totally sci-fi — and very, very cool.
Wired’s...Steve Jobs Is Collaborating On Authorized Biography — Report
Steve Jobs is finally cooperating with an official biography, the New York Times reports.
Jobs will collaborate with Walter Isaacson, author of two well-regarded biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger.
The book, which is in the early planning stages, would cover the entire life of Mr....
