Investment, innovation and energy have been shifting elsewhere in computing — mainly, to shopping, gaming and news applications for smartphones and tablet computers.
In related news, applications for loans to buy U.S. homes and to refinance existing mortgages fell for the second straight week, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
Today, Fwix announces their "City Apps" which are local news applications for the iPhone and WebOS platforms.
He develops news applications for latimes.com and conducts analysis for reporting projects.
Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday pushed the send button on The Daily, a news application designed for the iPad that he hopes will position his News Corporation front and center in the digital newsstand of the future.
Gaming apps represented 34% of the application impressions, a 26% increase quarter-over-quarter. News application impressions grew 36% quarter-over-quarter and global news applications accounted for over a quarter of the impressions in Q3.
For example, 17-year old Nick D'Aloisio made headlines this year when he sold his news application, Summly, to Yahoo for $30 million.
Mr. Singh said they were programming them and adding standard applications featured on every UbiSlate tablet, like The Indian Express news application and Krishi Ville, an app for Indian farmers that is supposed to provide data on the agricultural market.
In other words, I wouldn't count on Dull to be a replacement for your preferred news application, like WSJ, NYT, CNN, Circa, etc. It's definitely catering to the youth market today with its selection of less-than-serious content.
