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Posts tagged "news"

The Chicago Tribune planning to create tablet device for reading news

The Chicago Tribune is planning to work with Samsung to develop a news tablet to deliver news content in a mobile format. According to different sources such as CNN and TechCrunch, The Tribune will hope to release the Android powered device for free or at a reduced price, such as with an agreement with subscription... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 17, 2011 at 2:47 pm
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TechWeek Chicago: Saturday rundown and impressions

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Saturday at TechWeek in Chicago had a fairly big emphasis on social media and social aspects in apps, games and other digital publishing uses. This unique event brought scores of technology professionals from Chicago as well as from major companies on the east and west coasts. A panel on Social Data was one of the... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
July 26, 2011 at 10:01 pm
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Introducing Media Tech Connection blog app for Android mobile devices

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Get connected to your tech news with Media Tech Connector! Introducing Media Tech Connector, a new application for Android smartphones that supplies news headlines from the Media Tech Connection blog, and what appears to be the first app available for a ChicagoNow blog. Media Tech Connector will now also provide the top ten technology news... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
July 17, 2011 at 11:33 pm
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Social Media Club Chicago gets its own daily online paper

The Chicago Social Media Club has recently announced it’s E-paper daily is up and running. Tim McDonald (@tamcdonald), the Director of Communications for Social Media Club annouced on Twitter that the E-paper has launched using Paper.li service, and is called “SMCChicago Daily”. It will feature stories about PR, marketing, some deals from Groupon as well as other social media related... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
September 8, 2010 at 2:31 am
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How emerging technologies can change news layout and reading trends

In the streets of Chicago and the rest of the world an invisible war rages in broad daylight, vying for the attention of the average newsreaders and technophiles: a war of news reading technologies. The average reader may not be aware, though, just how much thought is going into the technologies behind their news. Each method of traditional print format... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 31, 2010 at 12:11 pm
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ChicagoNow blog community idea turns a year old and growing

  ChicagoNow blog writers and contributers celebrate one year of the online Chicago community news idea. The experiment that began as ChicagoNow a year ago and a bit more began last August 12, 2009. Now, according to this official ChicagoNow staff blog post, the Web site is home to more than 300 blogs written by... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 29, 2010 at 9:27 pm
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Fwix news aggregation integrated into Yellowpages Web site

As reported by USA Today, the AT&T company has recently revamped it’s Yellowpages Website to include the Fwix news aggregation into the main page. The Yellowpages is finishing today a complete overhaul with a new branding image and logo to replace the image of the dated printed books that are delivered locally. The idea is still to help... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 19, 2010 at 12:50 pm
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Chicago Tribune for iPhone, iPod and iPad on iTunes App available

The Chicago Tribune announced recently that a new iPhone app was released for $1.99. It’s a new paid version that can be found on iTunes. It adds a variety of features, and though not tested personally by Media Tech Connection, some have expressed concern over why it should be paid when the Tribune Web site can still be... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 18, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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NewsCorp creating national digital newspaper for mobile and tablets

Rupert Murdoch and his NewsCorp are on the move again in an attempt to bring a national newspaper in application format only to tablet computers such as iPad and others. This is an innovative move in an attempt to keep newspapers and their revenue in the green, and NewsCorp has already been shifting to a... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 17, 2010 at 10:37 am
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Personalized 'news streams' becoming mainstream

The personalized news wave of the future is happening as we speak, according to a recent Mashable article. There has been a recent and ongoing switch from people relying on news in a published or printed form to that of real-time “news streams”, such as RSS feeds, online news aggrigators, and organizers. ChicagoNow.com is actually one... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 12, 2010 at 3:06 pm
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