Fox 4 in South Texas broadcasted the first known news story from the iPad 2 yesterday as part of a St. Patrick’s day segment. Reporter Mike McNeil broadcasted his piece from a liquor store and proved he was using the device by showing off his iPad 2 box. McNeil joking added that “all the experts who know how to shoot these stories, are out on real stories” so he fired up his iPad 2....
Upon the launch of every new version of the iPhone and iPad, there’s always a slew of content creators racing to publish a “world’s first” video within their respective fields. Yesterday wereportedthat Fox news had earned the title of the world’s first news broadcast using the iPad 2 and today, we’ve found the first ever music video shot entirely on Apple’s new tablet. Remedy Films used 4 iPad 2’s to shoot a music video for the song “Need”, performed by Eddy....
Wanting to boost the profile of its social network and explain the advantages of its service in Japan, Facebook has authorised the creation of “Facebook Navi“, a navigation service which provides its Japanese users with an overview on the service, its applications and Pages. Facebook Navi is the “world’s first official navigation service” for Facebook and lists four menu selections detailing “What is Facebook”, “Facebook user manual”, “Editors’ choice of Japanese Facebook pages” and “Editors’ choice of Facebook Apps”....
After much ado, waiting, impatience, and in the end, early delivery, the Mango update to the Windows Phone platform is about to hit the streets. In just a few hours, on Thursday morning in Japan, the Fujitsu IS12T will go on sale, marking the start of the second wave of Windows Phone hardware and software. That the IS12T is the first Windows Phone Mango handset to go on sale is somewhat fitting, as the phone is also Japan’s first WP7 handset....
Random House, the world’s largest publisher, announced on Monday that it is adopting the iTunes agency pricing model for eBooks. Random House is the last of the major publishing companies to adopt the iTunes model after the other five major houses made the switch last year after the launch ofthe iPadandiBooks. “We are making this change both as an investment in the successful digital transition of our existing partners and in order to give us the opportunity to forge new retail relationships,” a company spokesman said in a press release....
