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Nstein Technologies Inc. has released Semantic Site Search (3S), "a front-end, multi-index search engine" that leverages Nstein text-mining technology to power a faceted site search for accurate, categorically organized results. The first 3S customer, Canadian publisher Gesca, expects to use of 3S capability to deploy topical microsites.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Advantage Newspaper Consultants (ANC) announced this week it has upgraded and extended its iFolds Pro application to daily newspapers.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:00am EST
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The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday launched DFWblastoff.com, a portal featuring an online shopping mall with more than 400 retailers and social media network that rewards users for inviting friends to shop on the site.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Weeks after its availability elsewhere, the Kindle e-reader from Amazon.com Inc. has been introduced in Canada, relying on the Whispernet 3G network on the AT&T Global Network. Canwest announced that The National Post, and soon all its big-city dailies, also will be available on Kindle devices.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:00am EST
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The New York Times Co. announced that Jeff Moriarty has been named senior vice president/product manager of About.com and Evan Minskoff has been appointed vice president, marketing of the About Group.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Journal Register Co. announced Monday that Daniel M. Sarko has been named to the newly created position of chief digital officer.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00am EST
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The Associated Press has launched a mobile application for Smartphones operating on the Windows Mobile platform. According to the AP, the app is now the top news app and the fourth most popular in the Windows Marketplace.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Real-time analytics company Truviso today unveiled technology that enables advertising networks, Web publishers and other digital services providers to track hundreds of millions of unique users across various dimensions and instantly obtain analyses of user interactions.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Online business news publisher bizjournals Inc. has chosen Caspio Inc. for an enterprise solution to build and deploy database-driven cloud applications. The arrangement "will help us leverage ... proprietary data products we produce ... as well as open new doors for our reporters to share more data and analysis with [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:00am EST
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NewspaperDirect has launched iPhone and BlackBerry versions of its PressReader application. Owners of the popular smartphones can download from a selection of more than 1,300 newspapers and magazines at PressDisplay.com. The free PressReader applications are available for immediate download from the Apple and RIM sites.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Boston.com launched a newly designed sports section as ESPN focuses on several local sports sites in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Tweet seasoning.
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Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:00am EST
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The Associated Press in conjunction with Verve Wireless is offering publishers a way to customize and launch mobile applications for Android, Blackberry iPhone, Nokia, Palm Pre and Windows Mobile phones.
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Caspio Inc., provider of a cloud-computing platform for creating Web applications without programming, has released its new search engine optimization deployment method, enabling Web publishers to make their data available to the largest possible audience. The company also released its latest version of Caspio Bridge.
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Outsell Research is the latest company to jump in the paid-content fray by partnering with Issaquah, Wash.-based Scout Analytics. The Outsell Scout Analytics service is aimed at helping media companies increase revenue with paid content and subscriptions.
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:00am EST
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The Web site of The San Diego Union-Tribune got a new look and has expanded classified listings from Monster and Auto Trader.
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:00am EST
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At the IFRA Exp in Vienna earlier this month, WoodWing Software announced a hosted service for publishers to offer readers a branded iPhone newsreader via the Apple App Store, allowing them to deliver content from their content management system directly to the iPhone.
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Plastic Logic's digital reader QUE is going to be sold at Barnes & Noble stores and its online site.
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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E-readers will save the publishing industry. E-readers will become the mobile equivalent to the eight track tape. The answer, of course, likely lies somewhere in between these two extremes.
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Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Examiner.com, which serves 109 markets in the U.S. as an insider source for local content ranging from breaking news to arts & entertainment to sports, has announced it is expanding to Canada, via the launch of Examiner.com Canada.
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Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Ryan Davis has been named president of philly.com. He was previously the director of strategic operations for Philadelphia Media Holdings (PMH).
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Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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E Ink Corp, the developer of "electronic paper" display technology used in many eBooks, and Freescale Semiconductor, provider of eBook processors and other industrial- and consumer-electronics embedded processors, are collaborating on development of solutions to lower costs and foster innovation for eBooks.
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Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Among exhibitors at last week's IFRA Expo in Vienna, where mobile solutions were widely offered, and e-readers in particular having been the subject of an IFRA conference only days earlier, Dutch company soliDAM b.v. positioned itself as the go-to guys for e-reader solutions.
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Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Software developer Adobe Systems and bookseller Barnes & Noble have announced they are joining to standardize the open ePub and PDF eBook formats and will collaborate on a content-protection standard.
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Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal and Brown Publishing Company (BPC) Group Publisher Pamela Stricker announced on Tuesday that Lora Abernathy had been named to the newly created role of online editor for Brown Publishing's southwest region in Ohio.
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Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Growing trend.
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Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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TownNews.com said it is incorporating the Associated Press' new format templates hNews in its new BLOX Web content management system. The AP and Media Standards Trust, a British nonprofit, developed the format earlier this year to help the new industry adopt consistent news formats for online content.
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Posted: October 20, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The IREX digital reader plans to offer consumers access to more than 1,100 magazines and newspapers such as The Austin American-Statesman, The Washington Post, and The New York Times through partnerships with NewspaperDirect and LibreDigital.
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Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Pressmart announced today a new portal that targets publishers who would prefer a pay-as-you-go solution.
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Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Newsy.com's video news analysis application, which trains student journalists in a partnership with the University of Missouri, was ranked No. 6 Thursday on the list of free apps in the News category in the iTunes App Store.
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Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Independent media agency TargetCast:tcm has released a consumer trend report that reveals differences in how men and women engage with traditional media. The study also points to generational differences in the ways digital media is perceived and consumed.
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Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Social publishing company Scribd on Wednesday launched a free version of its online document reader for select media organizations, among them The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune as well as The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Mediabistro.
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Posted: October 07, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Bitcents, a San Francisco and London-based technology startup, announced Wednesday the launch of what it's hailing as the first fully functional micropayment system for news organizations and consumers.
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Posted: October 07, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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3M's Optical Systems Division, St. Paul, Minn., has developed a field sequential 3-D optical film that enables auto-stereoscopic 3-D viewing on mobile phones and other handheld devices without the need for glasses. The 3-D optical film can be integrated into the backlight module, according to 3M.
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Posted: October 05, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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As part of its Dakode mobile publishing and 2D barcode tracking platform, Serioustec has adopted the barcode reader and backend tools of 3GVision. Dakode allows publishers to integrate 2D barcodes to mobile content, enabling them to publish interactive content for mobile phones, and to track campaigns linking print to online.
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Posted: October 05, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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ExactTarget announced that The McClatchy Co. has again chosen the Indianapolis-based on-demand e-mail and one-to-one marketing provider to power e-mail newsletters and news alerts across the group's 30-newspaper network.
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Posted: October 05, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Financial Times is launching a companion Web site for its magazine How to Spend It. The site goes live Oct. 3 and coincides with the publication's 15th anniversary.
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Posted: October 01, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Mobile Internet usage is growing exponentially -- undoubtedly boosted in large part by smartphones like the iPhone. However, despite the hype surrounding the segment, just a quarter of wireless subscribers logged onto the Web via their mobile devices in July.
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Posted: October 01, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The iPhone App from Newsy.com is available for download from the iTunes Store, offering users one-touch mobile access to its multi-source news videos on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Newsy.com produces daily videos that analyze differences in how a story is reported by news organizations around the world.
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Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Tribune Interactive launched HealthKey.com Wednesday, which it described as an interactive community for managing personal and family health.
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Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag.
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Posted: September 29, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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WorldNow, an online technology, content and revenue-solutions company for local media, announced on Wednesday a new partnership with The Associated Press that allows WorldNow customers who are AP members, direct access to enhanced AP Online content.
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Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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NewspaperDirect announced that its PressDisplay online newspaper and magazine kiosk is running on the Irex DR800SG, unveiled today in New York. The 8.1-inch, touch-screen DR800SG offers multi-mode 3G wireless capabilities and instant access to PressDisplay.com's 1,100-plus full-content digital replicas of newspapers' print editions.
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Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The New York Times has big plans for Twitter.
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Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's entertainment hub accessAtlanta.com got a boost in the form of new partnerships with Entertainment Tonight, Paste Magazine, Drive a Faster Car and Atlanta on the Cheap.
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Posted: September 21, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Caspio Inc. announced an enterprise roll-out agreement with Gannett Co. Caspio enables newsrooms to quickly create, without programming, searchable databases and community applications for many users.
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Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Agence France-Presse announced Wednesday the launch of a new online publishing application that automates the publication of AFP multimedia content for the 2010 Winter Olympics and World Cup.
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Posted: September 16, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Wall Street Journal Digital Network is launching an online daily news broadcast The News Hub.
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Posted: September 16, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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McClatchy announced today that all 30 of its daily newspapers have joined The Associated Press mobile news network, AP revealed in a release.
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Posted: September 14, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Blog on.
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Posted: September 11, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Journalism Online plans to take a 20% cut in revenue obtained from paid content from its members, a Newspaper Association of America memo revealed.
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Posted: September 10, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Financial Times has launched a glossary of more than 10,000 financial terms, free on its Web site FT.com. Users of the Financial Times Lexicon can also join discussions or suggest new terms. IBM is the sponsor of the launch.
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Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Taiwan-based Netbook developer Asustek Computer is prepared to launch what it expects to be the lowest-cost e-reader -- with a two-page, full-color display. London's Sunday Times reported that Asus President Jerry Shen said his company aims to release the device. The report said a low-end model could be priced under [...]
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Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Globe and Mail, based in Toronto, has gone live with digital and mobile offerings using Escenic Content Engine, Escenic Content Studio and Escenic Mobile Solution, which integrates software from Mobiletech.
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Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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MSN UK has chosen PressDisplay.com from NewspaperDirect as its aggregated newspaper and magazine portal. PressDisplay.com affords online access to newspapers and magazines from around the world. MSN UK News now offers a version of PressDisplay.com that includes its digital features and all its 1,000-plus digital replica editions.
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Posted: August 31, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The New York Times named a new vice president, digital media at its Regional Media Group. Dan E. Shorter will take over the role on Sept. 8 and will report into Michael Golden, president and COO of the Regional Media Group, and vice chairman of the company.
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Posted: August 26, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Pressmart announced Tuesday that it is making eEditions compatible for the Kindle and Sony digital reading devices.
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Posted: August 25, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Two East Texas newspapers, the Longview News-Journal and the Marshall News Messenger, have announced the launch of electronic editions, effective immediately.
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Posted: August 24, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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USA Today has launched three new online communities devoted to fantasy football, college football, and pets.
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Posted: August 18, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Boston.com has added the communities of Natick and Somerville to its rooster of coverage at "Your Town."
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Posted: August 18, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Huffington Post has launched a new platform, HuffPost Social News, allowing readers to share stories and post comments with their Facebook friends.
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Posted: August 17, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Do it today.
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Posted: August 14, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Los Angeles Times is the latest Tribune property to unveil a redesigned Web site, the paper's editors announced on Wednesday.
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Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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News destination site DailyMe.com is now offering a way to follow the tastes of readers with new embedded technology. DailyMe.com aggregates more than 5,000 news articles from 500 sources such as Newsday, The Dallas Morning News, and the San Jose Mercury News.
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Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Media General's Richmond Media Group announced Wednesday that it has appointed Rick Thornton as "chief connector" at its Web site Richmond.com. His appointment is effective immediately.
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Posted: August 12, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Clarity Media Group has expanded its Examiner.com franchise into 20 additional markets. Examiner.com is now in 109 cities across the U.S.
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Posted: August 11, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Tampa Tribune on Tuesday celebrated the 15th birthday of its Web site, TBO.com.
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Posted: August 11, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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At the second European E-reading Conference, FirstPaper President Gil Fuchsberg will discuss the Hearst venture that will soon bring its e-readers to the market. The conference also will present e-reader trials by The New York Times, Les Echos and NRC Handelsblad, and examine advertising, distribution and technical standards developments.
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Posted: August 10, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Kindle craze is upon us. But, e-readers will need to evolve to reach a broader audience, per The NPD Group's "E-readers Snapshot Report" released today.
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Posted: August 07, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Sony plans to introduce two new digital readers at the end of August while cutting the price of books offered through its e-store.
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Posted: August 05, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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AccuWeather.com has launched new languages for its global mobile Web site, for a total of 33 translations, including three dialects of Chinese, three dialects of Spanish, two dialects of Portuguese and two dialects of English. The site provides forecasts and indices for locations worldwide, but until now only in English.
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Posted: August 05, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Google announced Monday that it has updated its index of searchable digital newspapers, adding several publications to its roster and quadrupling the number of articles in its "News Archive Search."
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Posted: August 04, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Austin American-Statesman is the latest paper that can be accessed on readers' iPhones, as The Statesman Co., the paper's parent company, announced Tuesday that the statesman.com iPhone application is now available to download.
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Posted: August 04, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Former college professor Marcus Sheffield has launched an online newspaper, the Wolftever Times, serving three communities in southeastern Tennessee.
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Posted: August 03, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Online advertising company PaperG Inc. signed an agreement with Hearst Newspapers to implement the Flyerboard ad unit across 15 of Hearst's Web properties.
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Posted: July 30, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Washington Post has re-launched its mobile site to make it easier to navigate stories.
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Posted: July 29, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Samsung is the latest manufacturer hoping to tap into the potential of digital books, with the launch of a pocket-sized reader.
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Posted: July 28, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Lancaster Newspapers has reached an agreement with CommunitySportsDesk to collect and publish community sports and recreation content for print and online. Lancaster's sports Web site will now operate as Lancaster Community Sports.
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Posted: July 28, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Inergize Digital and DoApp Inc. announced that two months since the launch of Mobile Local News, there are 50 Mobile Local News applications in the Apple App Store. Mobile Local News distributes print and broadcast outlets' locally branded news, weather, sports, politics and entertainment to iPhone and iPod touch devices.
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Posted: July 24, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The News-Press of Fort Myers, Fla., has launched an online e-edition that exactly matches the pages of the print edition.
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Posted: July 23, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Plastic Logic is using AT&T's 3G network to deliver data to its forthcoming e-readers, slated to hit market in 2010.
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Posted: July 22, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Plastic Logic, the manufacturer of an e-reader slated to come to market next year, is partnering with Barnes & Noble.
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Posted: July 21, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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ESPN has its eyes on the local market. The sporting behemoth, which found success with its hometown sports coverage on ESPN Chicago, plans to roll the concept out to three more cities, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.
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Posted: July 20, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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New business models, innovations and new responses to changing consumer behavior will be examined at Beyond the Printed Word 2009, the 17th World Digital Publishing Conference, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 5-6.
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Posted: July 20, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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In an unusual move in newspaper sports coverage, the Dayton Daily News has launched a blog devoted to the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
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Posted: July 17, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Deutsche Presse Agentur, Germany's largest independent news service, is partnering with Attributor to provide the latter's technology to monitor the Web for instances of unlawful content reuse. DPA can now promote and sell Attributor's content-monitoring services throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Posted: July 16, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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USAToday.com has rolled out Newsdeck (in beta) which organizes stories by sections in eight simple widgets, reports Tech Crunch.
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Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Financial Times has launched a free iPhone application compatible with OS 3.0 and iPod touch models. The app provides news, global market data and a currency converter. Articles are automatically cached, allowing users to read even if they are offline.
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Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Seattle Times online network recently launched NWhomes.com on the Adicio Real Estate platform from Adicio Inc., Carlsbad, Calif. Already on the Adicio Careers platform since 2003, The Times migrated its real estate and automotive platforms from another vendor this year.
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Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Taking democratization of the news to a new level is NYC.is, a Web site devoted to New York-related stories that lets readers determine what reports get featured on its homepage.
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Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Jon Schleuss has been named online editor of nwanews.com, a Web site featuring content from three dailies and nine weekly newspapers in Northwest Arkansas.
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Posted: July 13, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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In an agreement with PBS, ImpreMedia on Monday began carrying the PBS NewsHour feed of the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor translated into Spanish.
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Posted: July 13, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Dallas Morning News is reaching out to small businesses with a suite of new enhancements to Dallasnews.com.
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Posted: July 07, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Paxton Media Group daily newspapers in Kentucky will use CommunitySportsDesk (CSD) to collect, organize and present community sports and recreation content for their online and print products.
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Posted: July 07, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Carmen Boles has been named director of interactive content and audience development for The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Posted: July 06, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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Boston.com has launched an application enabling users to watch and interact with Globe 10.0, its daily sports video program, on their own Facebook page.
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Boston Globe Wednesday announced the launch of "GlobeReader," a new digital edition of the Boston Globe.
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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More people are going online to socialize rather than conduct business or shop, according to a new survey from Ruder Finn. Eight out of 10 Internet users are hitting social networking places like Facebook and Twitter -- double the amount of people who turn to the Web to shop (31%) [...]
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Posted: June 30, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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The Online Publishers Association has received commitments from more than a dozen new well-known online publishers, as well as a group of premium brands, as its moves forward with its new suite of high-impact ad units this week.
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Posted: June 30, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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