Adobe has produced this video to whet our appetites for what’s coming later this year via its Digital Magazine Solution.  It makes production of slick, interactive digital magazines like Wired for the iPad look like something mere design mortals will be able to do. When Apple banned Adobe’s Flash from its iPhone and iPad, it [...]

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ZDNet’s Jason Perlow has done a thorough job lining up the various e-reading apps available for the iPad and iPhone. His review covers: Apple’s iBooks Amazon Kindle for iPad Barnes and Noble eReader Kobo Reader (which is also the Borders eReader and will soon be the Whitcoulls eReader for the iPad) Ibis Reader (this is [...]

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Apple’s grip on the media business tightened this week with the release of its latest operating system update for the iPhone OS4. And as its mobile product line expands, its operating system has dropped the “Phone” from its name to become iOS4. iOS4 is a free upgrade for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads. It’s rumoured [...]

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Just days after the launch of Apple’s iPad, it might be time for starry-eyed publishers to take a reality check from their iPad infatuations. Apple has just made the content business much harder. The reason is an escalation in Apple’s long-running battle with Adobe over its Flash platform. Apple’s latest move bans any content generated [...]

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I’ve just spotted a couple of children’s picture books in the iPhone App Store, including a title from the popular Milly Molly series. They’re the first fruits of a new technology called QBook from New Zealand company Kiwa Media that’s been under development for the past year. Billed as “the world’s first touch-enabled read-along colour [...]

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