As we debate pay walls, micropayments, mobile apps and business models, it’s worth looking to other industries for inspiration – exactly what Freek Bijl, an internet strategist, has done in this excellent slideshow:
(Hat tip to @arjanelfassed)
Tags: apple, freek bijl, technologypaidContent:UK reports: “Just as newspapers were looking to attract new mobile readers, Apple has rejected the first version of Newspaper(s), an iPhone app that let users read the content of over 50 newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, France’s Le Monde, and the UK’s tabloid the Sun. Apple rejected the app on the grounds that The Sun, with its topless Page 3 Girls, was ‘obscene’.
Tags: apple, iPhone, page 3, The SunWired.com has been the latest victim of a fake story about Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ health.
A hoaxer created a page, which looked like part of Wired.com, featuring a report about Jobs having a heart attack.
“In this instance the hoaxer went to the considerable trouble of creating an image of a three-paragraph story, with such affirming attributes as my aforementioned byline, current time stamp, some excellent (genuine) related stories and the social bookmarking icons at the bottom — including an (unfortunately hoax) 201 Diggs,” writes the falsely bylined John Abell.
Interestingly enough, Abell learnt about the hoax through Twitter.
Tags: apple, heart attack, John Abell, Steve Jobs, wiredDan Lyons, the blogger behind the ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ blog, has allegedly been banned from appearing on CNBC after calling out one of the channel’s reporters for his coverage of Steve Jobs’ health problems.
Tags: apple, blogging, CNBC, Dan Lyons, Fake Steve Jobs, Steve JobsThe death of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs was prematurely announced yesterday afternoon by Bloomberg.
A pre-prepared stock obituary was accidentally posted to Bloomberg’s corporate client wire service, even through the story was marked ‘Hold for release – Do not use’.
It was quickly spotted by a user, and sent to Gawker.com, where the obituary can still be read in full.
Bloomberg was quick to retract the story, and yesterday published a message on its wire saying: “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m.New York time today.”
At Telegraph.co.uk Matthew Moore reports: “The stock obituary was published ‘momentarily’ after a routine update by a reporter, and was ‘immediately deleted’, Bloomberg said.”
According to Moore, ‘Jobs has been reluctant to publicly discuss his health, but recently denied claims that his cancer [from which he has previously suffered] had returned’.
Tags: apple, Apple Inc., Bloomberg, cancer, funny, Matthew Moore, New York, Steve Jobs, Telegraph.co.uk, USAPiper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has released a detailed report about how he sees Apple quadrupling its 2008 sales and hitting the 45m figure he had previously predicted.
These are the key elements:
- Introducing a 3G iPhone within the next 3 to 6 months
- Offering a family of 2 to 3 iPhones – including lower-priced models selling for $200 to $300 – by Jan 2009 at the latest
- Entering new countries, effectively doubling the addressable market every year for the next two years
- Adding new features, such as games and remote purchases starting in June.
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