On my recent trip to Sydney, I picked up an iPad (around £100 cheaper in Australia given I could claim back the 10% GST as I was taking it out of the country, and it is not subject to the “cost of doing business in the UK” Apple tax). What has amazed me is that everyone [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 5, 2010
in iPad
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Tagged AFR, apple, Australian Financial Review, Fairfax, financial times, FT, FT iPad app, FT.com, iPad, iPad app, iPad ready, Ipad web app, iphone, itunes, New York Times, news, newspaper consumption, newspapers, newsprint, newsprint fingers, online news, Pressreader, sydney, sydney morning herald, Wall Street Journal, WSJ
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I received a note via LinkedIn from an old contact Theresa Mascarenhas about a new iPhone app she has developed for Children called “When I Grow Up (Vol.1)”. It sounds like a great use for the iPhone platform so I thought I would promote it here. When I Grow Up is the first personalized children’s [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 6, 2010
in mobile
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Tagged children iphone app, children's ebook, childrens, ebook, education, inspiring books, iphone, iphone kids, iphone story app, itunes, kids books, kids ebooks, story, Theresa Mascarenhas, when I grow up
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I had lunch today with Javier Foncillas who is Director of Branded Content for Vodafone. He was very excited as they have just launched their new Vodafone music service – reaching deals with the leading record labels to provide DRM free MP3 music. From what he told me, it was an interesting process in itself [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 12, 2009
in music
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Tagged apple, comes with music, digital rights, Douglas Merrill, DRM, DRM free music, EMI music, itunes, Javier Foncillas, mobile music, MP3, Nokia, Peter Knook, Real Networks, Rob Wells, side-load, sideload, sideloaded music, Sony Music, Thomas Hesse, Universal Music, unlimited music on your mobile, Vodadone, Vodafone music, Vodafone Music Catalogue
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I stumbled across spotify.com recently and thanks to an invitation from Vikki Chowney from Six Degrees PR I now have access to this free service. In a nutshell, it is an online music service with an easy to use and intuitive desktop client that just works. Enter a song title, genre, or artist and click search. [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 26, 2008
in music
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Tagged emi, free music, itunes, last fm, music, music advertising model, online music, sony bng, spotify, spotify.com, universal, warner
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