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10+ ways to cover an election

By Julie Starr | Published: November 3, 2010
This is a round-up of some of the apps I’ve seen news & other orgs using online to help people understand and engage with the mid-term elections in the US. It’s not an exhaustive list, just things that passed in front of my eyeballs on election day. The images are all linked. First up, Mashable [...]
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News apps and iPads

By Julie Starr | Published: July 21, 2010
In honour of the iPad finally going on sale in New Zealand soon, and in anticipation of the NZ news apps we expect to see soon after, here’s a link to Josh Benton’s review of a few news iPad apps, which is worth a look. Here’s an excerpt: Just about every news website created in [...]
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More than 2bn iPhone/iTouch apps downloaded

By Julie Starr | Published: September 29, 2009
More than 2 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s app store for iPhones and iTouch devices, Apple announced yesterday. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers [...]
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Surge of News apps for iPhone

By Julie Starr | Published: July 18, 2009
Ben Lorica has a roundup of recent iPhone app sales on the O’Reilly Radar blog and notes a surge in apps for News. On any given week, about 22% of all apps in the U.S. iTunes store are free. The percentage of free News apps is slightly higher (31%). The most popular News apps are [...]
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