The New York Times on Adobe AIR

• Author: admin
• Filed under: General
• Date: May 11,2009

Newspapers might have fallen on hard times, but they’re not going down without a fight. The Wall Street Journal is trying micropayments, while The New York Times isn’t only getting innovative with ads, but also debuting an impressive application:

Times Reader 2.0, an Adobe AIR application that comes as close to the newspaper reading experience as you’re going to find on the desktop.

Once you’ve downloaded the upgraded Times Reader, the application automatically updates with the latest NYT content every 5 minutes, meaning you can take it offline (Times Reader 2.0 has Google Gears-like offline support) with up-to-date news. Read the rest of this entry »

New, larger Kindle could be coming from Amazon; can it save newspapers?

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• Filed under: Personal Gadgets
• Date: May 4,2009

The newspaper of the future may soon be in your hands. Amazon’s popular Kindle e-book reader could be set for an update as early as this week, according to a report in the New York Times.

The Times even speculates the larger model could do for newspapers what the iPod did for the music industry.

The new Kindle, the Times reports, would be better tailored to suit newspapers and magazines – and presumably help defray the high cost of printing and distribution with digital downloads over the device’s wireless Internet connection. Read the rest of this entry »