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Financial Times thrives on HTML 5, paywall, and snubbing Apple iTunes

By tim, on March 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director of FT.Com, shortly after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the FT web app won an award for “Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing”.

I was interested in speaking to Grimshaw for two reasons.

First, the FT is a publication which has successfully managed the transition from

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Financial Times ports app to web to avoid iTunes

By tim, on June 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The Financial Times, which is among the few web publications that seems able to make sense of paywalled content, is launching a web application [paywalled article] for mobile devices, specifically to bypass Apple’s iTunes App Store. Here they are side by side.

Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com, said the FT had no plans

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First impressions of Google TV – get an Apple iPad instead?

By tim, on December 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I received a Google TV as an attendee at the Adobe MAX conference earlier this year; to be exact, a Logitech Revue. It is not yet available or customised for the UK, but with its universal power supply and standard HDMI connections it works OK, with some caveats.

The main snag with my evaluation is

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Apple deprecates Java

By tim, on October 21st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple has deprecated the version of Java that it ports and maintains for OS X:

As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated.

This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be

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iTunes hacks: whose fault are they?

By tim, on July 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

A big story today concerns irregular activity on Apple’s iTunes store, the one and only means of purchasing applications for iPhone and iPad and central to the company’s strategy. The reports allege that developers are hacking iTunes accounts to purchase and give favourable review to their apps – which can only be a short term

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iTunes user has account hacked, loses access to his own purchases

By tim, on May 27th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Spare a thought for iTunes user Peter Bilderback. His account was hacked and someone downloaded almost a $1000 worth of items from the iTunes store using his account. Bad stuff, but it happens. Bilderback wonders why Apple did not query the purchase of iPhone apps, when it knew that he had no iPhone – you

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Joining the Smartphone dots

By tim, on January 5th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has made a big splash with its launch of Nexus One, even though technically it is not all that exciting. A neat phone; 1 Ghz Qualcomm processor; runs Android 2.1; good for web video with its inclusion of Adobe Flash 10.1, along with the ability to capture

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Apple, Spotify, Google and iPhone: how to get into App Store

By tim, on August 28th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I was mildly surprised to see that Apple has approved Spotify for iPhone. Reason: if someone buys into the Spotify subscription model, why would they ever want to purchase music from iTunes, whether for iPhone or elsewhere? The iPhone version lets you listen to selected tracks offline, so that is not a problem.

Here’s

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Squeezebox and Napster – the perfect combination?

By tim, on February 23rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just posted a review of the Squeezebox Boom, a lovely device that once set up is perfect for hiding all the computer gunk and letting you enjoy the music wherever you are in the house. During the review I noticed that Logitech’s Squeezenetwork, which aggregates a number of Internet radio stations and music services

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Why we don’t talk about Zune

By tim, on May 19th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Brandon LeBlanc comments on last week’s Guardian article on DRM and says:

What is interesting to me is the article neglects to look at what Microsoft is doing with Zune in regards to DRM. Just like Apple and Amazon – the Zune Marketplace also offers DRM-free music.

According to this page on the Zune Marketplace:

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