May 16th, 2012
We know Mindshapes best for its well-crafted educational apps and books on iOS, but the company has been pivoting to something new: a virtual world called Magic Town based on picture books. It launched...
May 16th, 2012
Social magazine app Flipboard has a new partnership that should make the music industry’s ears prick up: SoundCloud. The companies are working together to put more audio into Flipboard’s apps,...
May 16th, 2012
It took a while, but The Economist is joining Apple’s Newsstand on iOS, after weighing up the pros and cons of the magazine storefront. “We wanted to see what impact it would have and just...
May 16th, 2012
Magazine publishers using Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite tools to make iPad apps now have a few more features to play with. That includes the ability to make iPhone versions, as well as repurposing...
May 14th, 2012
Nokia continues to focus on apps as a key way of differentiating its Lumia Windows Phone devices from… Well, from whatever other Windows Phone handsets are gathering dust in their wake. Its latest Lumia-exclusive...
May 14th, 2012
Bonnier’s Popular Science magazine was one of the first publications to launch a bells’n'whistles iPad app back in the day. Now it has a new app for iPhone and iPad, tying into its June Invention...
May 11th, 2012
Here’s an intriguing app pricing strategy, from London financial newspaper City A.M. In the capital, you can pick up the print edition for free. Yet the app costs a whopping £22.99 on the App Store...
May 11th, 2012
Bible app YouVersion has notched up its 50 millionth install on a mobile device, up from 20m this time last year. The app offers nearly 300 versions of the Bible in 144 languages, with users able to highlight...
May 11th, 2012
The flow of picture-book apps for children onto iOS continues, with two high-profile examples live today. Mog the Forgetful Cat comes from HarperCollins: a digitisation of its physical book of the same...
