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Apple is urging a federal court to reject the Justice Department’s proposed settlement with a group of e-book publishers, calling the terms “fundamentally unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented.” DOJ’s antitrust division sued Apple and five publishers in April, accusing them of colluding to raise the price of e-books. Apple and two publishers, Macmillan and Penguin Group, [...]
Our little print company has yet to develop an iPhone app for numerous reasons, but we still provide a nice “app” looking icon to people who wish to save our mobile website on their iPhone/iPod/iPad home screen. They can do this by selecting “Add to Homescreen.” Basically, when someone saves a website onto their home [...]
With advancements in functionality and design, LG hopes this plastic, and bendable, EPD will revolutionize the E-Book market. The world’s first plastic EPD from LG Display offers users a paper-like reading experience with a plastic substrate that is as slim as cell phone protection film, and a flexible design that allows bending at a range [...]
This last week, our online printing company upgraded its mobile website and I thought it might be interesting to evaluate what others were doing. I was shocked to learn how many print companies are practically ignoring mobile users. Here is what I found as of 3-12-12. Vistaprint – FAIL I was surprised that Vistaprint (vistaprint.com) [...]
We invite you to read these tips we’ve learned while enjoying Instagram. Instagram is the one social network that I’ve personally become addicted to. 1. Share your photos on other social networks. These include Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr , and Posterous. If you don’t have accounts for those social networks, start one up today. [...]
Over a year ago, I pushed our print company into the mobile arena by developing a separate website for mobile users, an emerging audience too large to ignore. My business partner couldn’t see the logic at that time for he only possessed a measly Blackberry, but I urged on and created the mobile website alone. [...]
QR codes can be pretty nifty marketing tools when added onto print. There’s just so many ways to creatively promote a brand to consumers, yet the QR code could be dying a slow dismal death for a variety of reasons. Why QR codes are dying 1. New technologies. It might be too late to save [...]
It was only a few months ago that techies such as myself were disappointed in Tim Cook’s announcement of the iPhone 4S late October 2010. We were all hungry for a thinner device, wider screen, NFC technology, HDMI outputs and hopefully even super powers. But instead of the sexy new iPhone 5 we eagerly anticipated, [...]
About a month ago, I started playing Instagram, a photo sharing network. Our company participates in many social networks, Instagram being one of the latest and greatest. Actually, I’ve enjoyed Instagram more than almost any other social network. It’s easy, I meet new people, enjoy dabbling with filters and enjoy amazing photography (iPhoneography) from various [...]
A while back we wrote about Shoutem, a pretty cool and easy-to-use app builder certainly worth checking out, but now a new service called Appifier offers a service that will convert your WordPress blog into a nicely designed app. We’re talking actual mobile applications complete with push notifications, offline access, Twitter and Facebook sharing, plus [...]
When I first started my business, I depended on an accountant to handle payroll and associated taxes, but this became too expensive. No disrespect to my accountant, but he was raping my checking account for the services rendered and I eventually moved to a payroll service offered through my bank. I had tried signing up [...]
Branding your business is not always easy. In fact, we originally branded ourselves as “cheap” and “fun” but we’re finding out that being “small business” has proven to be the most effective and powerful part of our brand. When battling the Vistaprints, Zazzles and Next Day Flyers, there may be no better way to share [...]
Yep, only a couple months after the iPhone 4S release debacle, the iPhone 5 rumors are surfacing everywhere throughout the techno world. It never fails. There’s plenty of rumors concerning the iPhone 5′s specifications, but frankly, I hope they’re wrong on some things. International Business Time reports that Steve Jobs was very involved in the [...]
Its been quite some time since I reviewed Zite, the popular iPad digital personal magazine, and now its available as an iPhone or iPod app. As usual, I was skeptical if the magazine could make a transition to smaller format but the now-CNN-owned company developed a beautiful app that Zite fans will love. Lately, Zite [...]
Listen, its already clear that HP doesn’t have the desire to keep WebOS, the mobile/tablet operating system they bought from Palm for over one billion dollars. At that time, purchasing the operating system made sense if HP wanted to enter the mobile arena, but the rise of Android, success of iOS and upcoming Microsoft Windows, [...]
I’m never 100% satisfied with the design of our website, PrintKEG.com, but we have gone to great lengths to ensure its browser compatible, which is why I downloaded Dolphin, a mobile-centric browser that is gesture-based and has many rich features for browsing the web with your mobile phone. All Things D reports that Dolphin has [...]
What a quarter for HP! After the horrible sales of its WebOS tablet and phones, HP announced they would refrain supporting WebOS, which we assumed meant no more tablets and admitted defeat to Apple’s Ipad. HP also surprisingly announced a possible spin-off of their computer division despite being the leader in PC sales. This combined [...]
Some of the big news on the tech blogs today is the news that Nokia has finally launched their Windows operated mobile phone lineup. There’s been a lot of hoopla over the N9, which is likely to never hit the U.S market, but the windows enabled phones look amazing. Nokia just announced the Lumia 800, [...]
