The Future Smartphone Will Be Without Apps

I wholeheartedly agree with this five-minute video story by Android Authority that the smartphone of the future won’t have or use Apps (i.e., individual single-purpose software applications) but instead simply use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to communicate/find/view.obtain/what its users wants.

The fight to control the playlist is a struggle between the group’s happiness and the individual’s

<em>The Atlantic</em> monthly magazine <a href=”https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/touchtunes-digital-jukebox/559784/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>reports how</a> a music individuation app called TouchTunes means the music a person oat a ‘dive bar’ is no longer the same music any other patron at that bar simultaneously hears. “An app, however, unlike…

The World’s Longest-Published Newspaper Successfully Transitions off Print

The world’s longest-published newspaper will become a non-printed, totally online service nine weeks from now. On 20 December, Lloyd’s List, which has been continuously published since 1734, will no longer be available in print. It’s online edition for the Web have has…

Journalism Schools’ Myopia When ‘Testing’ Google Glasses

How will journalists could use Google Glasses ? It’s the wrong question. The right question for journalists to ask is how and why will people who consume media use Google Glasses (or similarly wearable optic interfaces)? Whenever I encounter media professors or…

Savvy Articles About Change or Its Lack in News Media

Here are some savvy articles about how media is changing, will change radically, and why its companies might not be adapting to change.

Today's Congratulations and Boos

Congratulations to Adrian Holovaty, Matt Thompson, and Inform Technologies. Boos to U.S. newspaper corporations for claiming that newsprint price increases are forcing them to cut staff (an excuse that Slate’s Jack Shafer roundly debunks) and boos to FIFA for banning immediate online publication or broadcast of digital images of the next World Cup.

Digital Newspaper Strategies at the Financial Times

A month ago, I’d mentioned Nigel Pocklington‘s appointment to the newly created role of director of online publishing for the Financial Times. From London, Kieren McCarthy points me to an article he wrote today in The Independent about Pocklington’s role at FT.com…

Mobile and Digital Edition Ideas from 'Beyond the Printed Word'

The annual IFRA/WAN/FIPP Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference was held in Prague yesterday and today. A summary of the presentations is available from WAN and there is an interesting conference moblog. Here from the conference (my thanks to the IFRA…

More Prototypes of Rollable E-Paper

I keep telling publishers that electronic paper isn’t science fiction but science fact, technologiy that will go into commercial production this decade. I’m particular a fan of the rollable versions. For example, the picture above is of Polymer Vision B&W prototype demonstrated…

Shovelware Online Newspaper Design

Steve Outing has a good story today about most online newspapers’ woefully rigid and cluttered graphical user interfaces, the design equivalent of shovelware. He quotes Howard Finberg of the Poynter Institute (as is Outing) and the Digital Futurist consultancy and Nik Wilets…

The Mobile Messaging Generation Gap

FastCompany.com features a transcript of the mobile marketing panel yesterday at the Ad:Tech conference in NYC. Did you know that approximately 30 million Americans are using text messaging? That 150 million US mobile phones can receive text messages? Or that 80% of…

The Growth in Wireless Content Use

CyberAtlas today provides us with the following update on mobile content access: Instat/MDR expects the number of worldwide wireless Internet subscribers will have risen from 74 million at the end of 2001 to more than 320 million by the end of 2006.…

MTV On Hutchinson 3G in UK

MTV has begun to stream music videos and other programming, such as Jackass and Dirty Sanchez, to users of Hutchison’s third-generation mobile phones in the UK, Netimperative reports. Premiership football game clips are already available on those 3G phones. However, Hutchinson has…

NHL SMS Offered by Nextel

Textually.org tells us that the North American wireless phone network Nextel will be offering live SMS alerts from National Hockey League games. A subscribers have a choice of receiving alerts when his favorite NHL team’s scores, or end-of period results, or end-of-game…

SMS in Kansas

Because American publishers & consumers are far behind those in rest of the world when the topic is news by SMS, we heartened and not surprised to see progress in the American heartland. The reason we’re not surprised is that the news…