Funny story out of Jessica Guynn on LATimes Blogs about the newly released Smurf game that was recently released for the iPad and how kids are racking up charges with in-app purchases. Smurfberries. One California mom realized her 4-year-old had spent $66.88 on virtual Smurf stuff in the game on the iPad before she figured […]
Last week I reported that Rupert Murdoch was working with Apple to create a new iPad newspaper called The Daily. A few more details have been reported about the venture – less about the app itself – but more about who’s involved. The New Yorker is reporting that Murdoch’s News Corp is investing $30 million […]
The Guardian reports that Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs have been working together to create a new digital “newspaper” for tablet devices such as the iPad. The publication, which will be entitled the Daily, is supposed to be announced later this month. The 79-year-old Murdoch is said to have had the idea for the project […]
The iPad was first deemed a dud because it was a device for consuming media, not creating it. Some didn’t get that message and started creating digital paintings that are selling.These works of art could easily be mistaken for oil paintings or watercolours – but they’ve actually been created on an iPad. The pictures were […]
Daryl Cagle writes on his blog that his second attempt to get his Tiger Woods Cartoon App through the iTunes App store has proven unsuccessful. Again the denial is based on the “ridiculing public figures” clause. Since Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself said that the policy was changed for editorial cartoons (you can read the […]
I’m not sure I have all the pieces put together. From what I’m gathering, starting today the “Mister Boffo” has a “tag” printed inside the strip that when scanned by a mobile device (requires an app download) reveals an animated comic. I’m reading about this in the Star Tribune’s (MN) paper, so it may be […]
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interviewed Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs during the All Things Digital D8 Conference. A live blog transcript published on Engadget caused a stir when within the transcript it was unclear whether Jobs had called Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore a liar and trying to get his 15 minutes of fame […]
I was sent the following transcript from an appearance by Steve Jobs to D8 where he was interviewed about Apple and its products. During the interview, he mentioned Mark Fiore’s animated editorial cartoon app. He later mentioned when apps are rejected, “people lie” about the rejection to get press attention. Here is the transcript section […]
Rob Cabrera, creator of the formerly syndicated comic Silo Roberts, has posted his review of the major drawing apps available for the iPad. Since the iPad’s debut in April 2010, I’ve been searching all over the Internet for reviews on drawing apps for the device, only to be disappointed by a majority of the reviews. […]
From CNN.com: Hewlett-Packard says it’s developing a next-generation wristwatch for the U.S. military. The printing and computer company says the watch will have a flexible display that shows maps and other strategic information to soldiers in remote combat fields. The watch’s screen will be made of plastic and it will run on solar energy, making […]
A little afternoon levity. Not a comic in the traditional sense, but this sadanduseless.com Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates comic will soon go viral in some crowds if it hasn’t already. Read all of them for a chuckle.
The Hartford Courant caught up with Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Rick Stromoski, creator of Soup to Nutz and recorded their feelings about the digital future as presented by Apple’s iPad. Griffith says the Web has been a good platform for his work, and he’s encouraged by what he’s seen of the […]
Good catch from Tom Spurgeon. Ohio State University’s Bill Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has launched a new database to search through a portion of their massive collection. OSU’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has opened a new database to make it easier to access a portion of one of the world’s largest collections, […]
Interesting piece in next month’s The Atlantic on efforts by Google to save high-quality journalism. Publishers would be overjoyed to stop buying newsprint-if the new readers they are gaining for their online editions were worth as much to advertisers as the previous ones they are losing in print. Here is a crucial part of the […]
There’s a bit of buzz floating around about a rumor that AT&T made a deal with Apple to keep the iPhone exclusive with them until early 2011.In any event, during the course of negotiations, AT&T agreed to offer Apple a deal on bandwidth rates for the iPad 3G in exchange for a 6 month extension […]