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Overview of Apple's New iPod Touch-Based EasyPay Retail Store Checkout System http://www.macrumors.com/2009... - sunkenplanet

good show hi from ga - daveccorey

"The Chicago Tribune and other Tribune Co. newspapers plan to utilize as little content from the Associated Press as practical during the week of Nov. 8. The goal, as the papers review costs and needs, is to see whether severing ties with the news cooperative next fall is a viable option, the Chicago-based media company confirmed Monday. The trial is scheduled to be conducted almost 13 months after Tribune Co. gave the AP a required two-year warning that it might drop the news service, effective Oct. 15, 2010." - James

"Yes, it's very scrolling down the page in FF3.6 is very slow on my old P4 with Win XP, but on this Core 2 Duo it's OK." - James

"The other difference being that if you have an iPhone you will definitely have an iTunes store account, whereas on Android I'm sure only a small proportion of users have bothered to set up Google Checkout, which is required to buy paid-for apps." - James

"It was this really dumb office furniture that no one wanted to use because there was easier-to-use and more popular office furniture in Youtube’s office." - James

"It was this really dumb office furniture that no one wanted to use because there was easier-to-use and more popular office furniture in Youtube’s office." - James

"Bloomberg LP, the global financial data and news empire created by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is the winning bidder for BusinessWeek. Terms of the offer will not be disclosed by Bloomberg and BusinessWeek parent McGraw-Hill Cos. But knowledgeable sources say that Bloomberg’s cash offer is in the $2 million to $5 million range and that it has agreed to assume liabilities, including potential severance payments." - James

"Genius tip. Wonder if it can be adapted to also set up the plugins as well..." - James

"Like some kind of system for operating? AMAZING." - James

awesome. did u just look that up Susan? - Zee.

@Row, I seriously don't want to, but Old Media's wounds are entirely self-inflicted. There will always be investigative journalism, it's just that it needs to be paid for by newer/smarter monetization models. And the pay-wall ain't it.. Murdoch is entirely out of his gourd on this one, and that's not a political statement in this case. - Alex Schleber

"Here's why: go to Google News, or type a newsy topic like "Obama wins Nobel" into Google's search box. What do you get? Headlines and very brief teasers linking to news stories from news sites. If you click on them, you are taken to that news site, where you can read the story, which is surrounded by that site's ads. What, exactly, did Google steal in this scenario? If you don't click on the link, you don't see the story. If you do click on the link, you see the story on the originator's Web site." - James

It does, if you go to Settings > About Phone > System Updates ... - James

"And now the site is inaccessible... it's been giving me a 503 error all morning." - James

"Sir Harold Evans has been voted by his colleagues as the all-time greatest British newspaper editor and has enjoyed a flourishing high-profile career in publishing in the United States. His new memoir, "My Paper Chase", looks at his early days as a reporter, his award-winning journalism at the Sunday Times through the 70s, and his new found life in America." - James

And now the site is inaccessible... it's been giving me a 503 error all morning. - James from FriendFeed MT Plugin

And now the site is inaccessible... it's been giving me a 503 error all morning. - James from FriendFeed MT Plugin

"The Android app is far better than the iPhone version." - James

"To be a journalist in the UK right now is a scary vocation. Cost-cutting, down-sizing and job losses are happening to many news corporations across this fair isle, so to even have a hallowed position within the industry is seen as a blessing, not a right. But as the resources dwindle, the expectations on reporters is certainly increasing." - James

"In America, serious newspapers are held up to be public paragons of objectivity existing above the fray of human affairs, unbiasedly funneling paragraphs of absolute truth to their readers. This accounts, of course, for the pinching seriousness of papers like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. And it also explains why these newspapers are constantly targeted by the braying mob for their supposed liberal and conservative bias." - James

"A week ago Friday, lawyers for the company, which publishes The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and owns other newspapers and television stations, were in Federal Bankruptcy Court in Delaware suggesting that the proposed 2009 bonuses were critical for the health and survival of the company." - James

"The most important subset of numbers are 155 and 5. They refer to £155, the worth of an average reader to a paid-for newspaper a year in 2008. It breaks down to £90 a year from purchase price and £65 from advertising. Annual revenue from newspaper online totals just £5." - James

"If you use T-Mobile’s paid-for wifi hotspot service in London, Google identifies you as being in Germany and serves up all its pages in Deutsche. It also means you can’t use the iPlayer without some kind of VPN, not that I’ve bothered to do so yet." - James

Speaking today in Athens at Stream 2009, the annual invitation-only technology and media conference organised by WPP Digital, Sir Martin said: “[Rupert] Murdoch is absolutely correct to try and get people paying for content – it is critical for traditional media businesses as there is not enough advertising to support these models anymore. Getting consumers to pay for content they value is key. We have to find those areas.” - James

"The poll, conducted by Wired, the influential technology magazine, found that 84 per cent of respondents said they would be willing to pay for online content and 61 per cent said we are living in a golden age of media. The survey of over 500 respondents said newspaper (65 per cent) and magazines (60 per cent) are still important sources for new content, ahead of blogs at 55 per cent." - James

"We're not going to e-mail our co-writers with every new lead and minute detail we dig up. But if we're sharing a virtual notebook, we can scan through ... or search the newest findings as they're logged, make comments and highlight our favorite bits. Then, when it comes time to write, we can rearrange and discuss the story's flow in the same software. Thanks to the openness of Wave, collaborative pieces between bloggers could become more common." - James

"But most importantly: people on Twitter don’t actually seem to care about the story (or the Sun has very few readers on Twitter) - this is evident in the only 60 odd tweets (equally split between pro- and anti-Sun) in the 24 hours since the Sun’s I’m Feeling Blue Campaign was launched - the campaign invited people to tweet in support of their endorsement using a #feelingblue hashtag." - James

"There are lots of good headline writers these days, but there's more to the story -- "consider the war on editing from the bosses. Or time-pressed, short-staffed. Or, my best bet: The rise of search engine optimization for online headlines, where the drill is to be specific as possible." - James

"The WSJ doesn’t need to do this, but Murdoch does: it’s in his blood. A Murdoch paper without punchy headlines which grab you by the throat is pretty much a contradiction in terms. Readers of the WSJ will have to get used to trusting the stories more than the headlines, or the implicit news judgment which governs where they’re placed. The WSJ’s journalism seems to be much less scathed than the headlines have been." - James

"Gannett Co., the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., said third-quarter earnings should far outpace expectations despite a narrow shortfall in revenue, as layoffs and falling newsprint costs help offset weak advertising sales. Tuesday's announcement gave a sharp boost to Gannett's and other newspaper stocks." - James

"Nobody in their right mind believes the future of the news business involves paper and ink rather than pixels on a screen. We all know where the news business is headed, and what's more, we've known it for at least a decade. So why on earth are people talking about a bailout for newspapers?" - James