News International helped encapsulate the success of Apple’s iPad and other computing devices at a recent London conference,detailing howit had no Apple products before the iPad was launched to become the Apple’s fifth biggest UK customer. The iPad has helped the media company’s use of technology within its properties, providing its employees with products and services that make use of mobile and Cloud technologies. Paul Cheesbrough, News International’s CIO told attendees at the 451 Group’s recent Hosting and Cloud Transformation conference:...

Could it be that the mighty tablet is here to save the day for news publications? Well, yes, if this latest report is anything to go by. As newspapers and magazines rush to app-ify themselves for the world’s tech-heads, it transpires that there’s very good reason for doing so, asreportedtoday by PaidContent:UK. It seems that tablet users spend rather a lot of time consuming news on their devices – up to five times more than the time spent on publications’ websites....

If you won’t pay for news, would you pay for useful articles? That’s what German news websiteFocusis attempting to discover.The Guardiantoday reports on the site’s experiments with Google’s new One Pass payment system for publishers. Launched last week, just one day afterApple’spublication subscription plan, One Pass allows publisher to charge for individual articles, with Google taking a 10% cut of the proceeds. While Focus is still just testing the system, it’s interesting to note the types of articles that the site has chosen to charge for....

News360is one of a number of apps that aim to redefine the way we consume online news. Today marks the launch of an improved version of the app which sees it analyze data from your accounts on a number of other services to offer you an even more tailored experience. As wenotedwhen we covered the launch of its iPad app earlier this year, News360 uses intelligent linking to automatically give you the background to news stories across a wide range of categories, from world news to tech, crime and sports....

FromFacebook journalismtoTwitter-powered newspapers, there’s no doubt that technology is influencing innovative ways to compile and consume news. Previously available on the iPhone and hitting the iPad today,News360demonstrates that trend perfectly. Billed as a “News discovery and analysis platform”, News360 is about more than just finding interesting news stories to read. The app’s unique selling point is the work it does to help you understand the background to stories. Automatic hyperlinks are added to keywords in stories that you read through the app....