2010 March: MyMobi.com
UK Newspapers Believe BBC iPhone App is Too Good
Competition is supposed to be good for a market, however UK Newspapers don’t seem to agree. Mike Masnick, from TechDirt has reported the following: “It’s really amazing sometimes to see the entitlement mentality of newspapers — who for years built business models on the fact that there was a scarcity of news sources out there. Now that they’re finally facing real competition, rather than adapt, many seem to whine and ask the government to step in for them. Over in the UK, news publications have long been upset about the BBC, since its funded by the public, and they’ve been known to complain about competition from the BBC for years. So it’s no surprise that they’re demanding the BBC’s new iPhone app be blocked. They claim that the app “will undermine the commercial sector’s ability to establish an economic model in an emerging but potentially important market … This, over the long term, will reduce members’ ability to invest in quality journalism.”
iPad Set for Delivery April 3
Apple has announced that they will be taking pre-orders for the highly-touted iPad on March 12th and will be set for delivery on April 3rd. I know I will be placing my order on the 12th and I am definitely looking forward to reviewing it shortly after that.
iPhones Continues to Become a Video Broadcast Solution
Ustream and qik have been longtime leaders in the mobile broadcasting industry, however a new iPhone app is looking to take up quite a bit of marketshare. TwitCasting Live just launched a video broadcasting app that integrates mobile broadcasting with Twitter.
App Store Continues to Show True Colors
Apple will never cease to amaze me with their completely arbitrary app store approval policies. In case you live under a rock, last week we covered the story that the app store removed over 6,000 apps for having, what they deemed, inappropriate content.
However, if you go through the app store you will notice that [...]
