The number of mobile apps downloaded globally is expected to grow 38% to more than 32 billion this year. http://t.co/O9Ur3EHf
Berners-Lee blames music indus…
Berners-Lee blames music industry for trying to stop Interent openness http://t.co/K8NBuXda
Bild Strips Front Page of Daily Nude
“When the daily tabloid Bild, Germany’s top-selling newspaper, hits the newsstands on Saturday, readers will be surprised to find that a 28-year mainstay — the topless woman who has graced the paper’s front page nearly every day since 1984 — will no longer be there.” Read on: http://bit.ly/zJaBj5
Money and Paywalls
As 2011 winds down, paywalls seem to be going up. The Chicago Sun-Times in the US and Scotish papers the Herald and the Sunday Herald have decided to go the NYT way. The new year will certainly see more such attempts. I reckon Indian newspapers might be keenly observing how paywalls pan out of lesser…
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Typepad blocked: A bizarre move
My ISP BSNL hasn’t blocked Typepad, yet. But Nikhil Pahwa and Shivam Vij (Crazy internet censorship time in India, again « Kafila) are reporting that the government has explicitly asked ISPs to block the blogging service. As Shivam observes, unlike earlier when one would just hit a 404 error (page not found), this time there…
Key points from Touch Press’ Gray
These ingredients should probably be part of any web content team:Wolfram Research co-founder Gray and his Touch Press may be future of e-books, publishing | ZDNet Here are his three key ingredients next-gen interactive e-books: * “You need an author that’s not a technical writer, but can tell a real story with depth and authority,”…
Tharoor’s Net stock
The setting up of supporttharoor.org is the democratic right of either Sebastian Fuhrmann or his employers, especially if they are sitting in far-off Germany. It also seems to be fulfilling a need of those who actually think that “an educated, world-renowned, sophisticated and pro-active minister was shown the door for not much fault.” This fact…
Reaching for the stars
If minister of state for communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, is to be believed, India will be a fully wired country pretty soon. The minister says that the Rs.17,000 crore ($3.5 billion) in the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) will be utilised to connect 626,000 villages. He says that it would entail setting up 11,000…