Plenty of software and software-ish stories to deal with this week including some secrets to be found in OS X and Apple's beta launch of iCloud, including that all important “what’s it going to cost me” information.In the world of publishing, iPad / tablet versions of popular magazines are growing ever more popular, and there have been a number of news stories this week confirming the ever increasing popularity of such apps. For starters, Cosmo For Guys (CFG) has launched as an iPad only publication; Sports Illustrated is about to add an Android version into its digital stable; in the meantime Time Warner is going tablet mad, with major titles available on all major platforms before the end of the year.
Whilst publishers will be using social media in many and varied ways to promote their wares, this collection of authors are using Twitter and Facebook to promote their wares themselves, and are doing some clever things.However, it’s not all brightess and wonder in the world of publishing as we find Hearst closing She and Cosmo Bride magazines.
More publishing woes from Guardian Media Group (GMG) which reported further losses in the year ending April 3, 2011. A £33.8 million operating loss (before exceptional items) might be seen as a further drain on cash reserves, but it continues also to point in the wrong direction with regard to turnover as well.The Telegraph offers us some thoughts on e-books v. the printed variety. The journalist comes to the conclusion that the printed book is dead; there will be many linked to the print trade that want to offer an alternative view. Vent your anger here by emailing PIND.editor@gmail.com
Wired, however, has uncovered the reason why, in its opinion, we will never have truly innovative electronic books, as Facebook buys another leading start-up publishing business.Printers too are struggling on through: following the purchase of Pindar’s Scarborough plant, the York Mailing management appears to be close to letting some 90 staff go; whilst the De La Rue saga goes on, with a possible move north leading to 150 redundancies.
Our chums at Lifehacker have been providing some rather interesting software "Packs" this week: best of breed collections of apps or software products for Windows, Linux, and iPhone. As usual with this sort of offering, it is easy to disagree with the choices made, however, all seem to provide an interesting starting point for discussion if nothing else.In the world of browsers we find that Google Chrome has overtaken Firefox as the number two browser software. Meanwhile in the hoax of the week, Internet Explorer users were branded as thickness, especially those laggards still playing with IE6. Whilst even there Guardian fell for the spoof research to begin with, the story has since been deleted, though a "guilty as charged" message still remains.
For those attracted to the neat, tidy and fast aspects of SSD memory, good news! Space is now beginning to get cavenous too, with this soon to be released 1.6TB product. No clues on the axact price as yet, but guage it from these newly outed drives from Patriot and you will guess that it's not going to be a giveaway. You might worry too about one of these in Government agency hands: if they can loose a 256mb thumb drive and cause significant problems, imagine the amount of aggro that could be caused by mislaying one of these big beauties!Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 65. We aim to add details of our next edition this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
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