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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]