Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category


NY Times has got the right idea

Comments Off// Posted in mobile, Online Tools by on 02.26.08.

The New York Times Research and Development Lab have come out with a really cool idea for getting the newspaper right on your mobile phone. They developed a product using hacked Radio Frequency Identification chips (RFID) whereby you can transfer data to your cell phone seamlessly. The idea, once it’s fully developed, would work like [...]


It begins… who will be left out of the mobile revolution?

Comments Off// Posted in Journalism Industry, mobile by on 02.22.08.

The Guardian reported recently that the BBC will be making its iPlayer software available on the iPhone and iPod Touch in the coming weeks. Many blogs/rumor sites are reporting that this is undoubtedly linked to Apple announcing its Software Development Kit (SDK) release at the end of February. The iPlayer is simple enough. Stream all [...]


Journalism goes mobile

Comments Off// Posted in mobile by on 01.23.08.

I recently attended a conference on the transformation of National Public Radio to a more “webcentric” news operation. We were not allowed to blog the event since it discussed internal matters, so I can’t go into specific details. But let’s just say that the entire experience was educational. One aspect of this discussion which really [...]