Amazon Plans Android App Store to Compete With Google

Amazon.com is reportedly planning to start its own Android app store, putting it into direct competition with Google to sell applications for the mobile operating system. The move would also help Amazon flank the Apple Apps Sto…

Hearst CEO: Newspapers Will Survive

The rest of the industry may be envisioning an all-digital future, by Frank Bennack Jr., vice chairman and CEO of Hearst Corp. is sanguine about the prospects for dead-tree newspapers. “They’ll be around as ink and paper for as…

Why Sports Illustrated Ignored Apple’s iPad Guidelines

Magazine publishers are at great pains these days to please Apple, whose fast-selling tablet computer, the iPad, just may be the key to their future survival. But following all the persnickety dictates handed down by Steve Jobs…

Pew Report: Most Smartphone Users Aren’t Using Apps

About one-third of smartphone owners aren’t using the mobile applications on their devices, instead sticking to using the basic features, according to the Pew Research Center. Why aren’t more people using apps?
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