The death of the newspaper April 28, 2010 No Comments
Newspapers have been the only way to consume the latest news, gossip and other worldly goings-on for the last century, but it seems that has now come to an end. But just why has this sturdy medium gone out of fashion?
Newspapers, by their very nature, can only report static events with very little or indeed no interaction from the the reader. Once an event has passed it won’t be reported on again. In comparison, online content is a very different story. Here a handy search engine will find you all the news and information you could possibly want on a subject going back as far as when reporters/writers started writing for the web.
BBC sparks anger from newspapers over iPhone plans February 28, 2010 No Comments
The BBC have thrown another spanner into the online content battle after announcing plans to launch a dedicated free app to deliver BBC content straight to the iPhone.
The newspaper industry are up in arms over the decision to deliver quality content, such as news services and the popular iPlayer TV service, straight to mobile devices. The Newspapers Publishers Association are so incensed they’re set to complain to ministers and the BBC Trust. Their complaint? They believe the latest smartphone app will “distort the market”. Nothing to do with their greedy plans to start charging for online content then?!
The app was announced at last week’s Mobile World Congress and is set to be available for iPhone users and other mobile devices, such as Blackberry and Google’s Android, by the end of the year. Read the rest of this entry »
