The Times they are a Changing: The Times newspaper has begun charging readers to access its online content. From this day forward access to the Times and Sunday Times website will cost £1 per day, or £2 a week if readers sign up to a subscription. Is this going to change the world of newspapers? You do actually still get a good front page at The Times web site, but if you click to get more detail on anything you are asked for ££££. Will readers just go elsewhere for their online news? Why not mail PIND.editor@gmail.com your thoughts on the subject.The hot print supplies news from yesterday was Ultrachem purchasing the RW Coatings business, which has been expanding at a rapid rate of some 25% per year in turnover and sales for the last two years; a growth that has to be seen as impressive when you consider what the economy was doing during that time.
Ever wanted to create a newspaper out of your Twitter account? Possibly not the first thought that comes to mind, but now it is possible, and produces some interesting results! Check out TechCrunch, who will tell you all about the product, or go direct to paper.li to create.On the subject of newspapers, Wired has published an interesting take on the history and future of the British tabloid.
Two different tests on internet browsers came to the conclusion that both Chrome and Opera provided a better overall performance than the rest this week. Both are worth a look, as they examine the issue from different angles, but both Legit Reviews and Lifehacker reach similar conclusions. Both browsers have impressed here at PIND too, though the normal legacy issues still have to be overcome, and we still use mostly Firefox!One story already featured here on the front page of GenesisNews covers the installation of Wave2 at Mladá fronta, the Czech Republic based publisher. The company launched a new regionalised newspaper last year – a brave decision in its own right – and has been able to further capitalise on the success that it has had with the publication by moving to “self-service” ads with the help of Wave2’s UK created software package.
Also recently covered on GenesisNews, multi-award winning Oxuniprint featured in printweek.com’s e-mail and web site news this week as it unveiled its latest Mitsubishi press investment. The previously owned machine was procured through DPM, the used equipment specialist, and the install makes Oxuniprint’s presses and all B2 Mitsubishi attack. The reliability of the product was a major factor in the decision. New Mitsubishi presses are now distributed in the UK by M Partners.
Perhaps the biggest news on the general communication front this week has been the demise of Microsoft’s Kin phone product. Full details can be found here. Of the smartphones that are still alive and selling, Bill Shrink offers a good comparison of the features that you get on iPhone 4, Droid Incredible, Evo4, and Nexus 1.In a brief return to our key topic of last week, Apple is claiming some sort of record for shifting 1.7 million iPhone 4’s in three days, and you have to say that is a pretty impressive sales total. As a late breaking additional piece of news, Apple now informs us that the signal loss that was making the headlines during the course of last week is in fact down to a software issue! Mmm, you don't sound too convinced?
One thing that really attracted me from the initial summary of the iPhone 4 features was the ability (at last!) to be able to connect a Bluetooth keyboard for easy text entry. Now it does seem, unless you jailbreak the phone, that you are limited to the Apple Wireless keyboard, which is not the most portable of products (ie, not fold-down pocket-sized), but then maybe I ask for too much! It does, however, work very well, allowing the simple typing of text into many applications, including e-mails, notes, calendar entries, to do lists, Google searches, etc. Many of the top row of function keys also work with the phone, including brightness, volume, and iPod play/pause, track forward and back buttons. OK, it's not cheap (£56), but like most Apple products it does the job extremely well!PIND012
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