Like many publications with one foot in the digital world, one foot in print, The New York Times has been struggling to find a strategy for ensuring a consistent stream of income as its readership moves online. After trying a paid access service for several years, the paper moved to free access to its content. But it’s apparently time to go back to the future for the NYT, as the company announced it will develop a system that will charge frequent readers of its online content.
Rumors of a change in policy began circulating last week, but the company has only released the barest of details at this point. Readers will get free access to a limited number of articles per month, although that number has not yet been determined. To read anything beyond that, the Times will charge a flat fee, which will allow unlimited access to everything on the site.
Like the article limit, the fee has yet to be determined. There’s plenty of time to sort it all out, however, as the system won’t be put in place until a year from now, in January of 2011.
Go to New York Times to spend 2010 erecting a partial paywall
Filed under: Truck, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota
NUMMI’s loss will be San Antonio’s gain. Toyota is adding a second shift at its truck plant and looking to hire 850 workers for the production increase, and since Toyota’s suppliers are located on-site, they’re also adding a second shift and hiring.
The relocated Tacoma production from NUMMI is projected to roll 150,000 vehicles out per year, still below the 200,000 trucks Toyota wanted to be making when it launched the current Tundra. It’s a way for Toyota to hedge its pickup bets. When the market for the biggies sags, Tacomas may be more appealing; the plant could adjust its mix and keep going. While Toyota’s pickup volume is a small slice of the market, San Antonio may wind up loving the Tundra and Tacoma in a big way.
Gallery: 2007 Toyota Tundra Limited
[Source: Automotive News - Sub. Req.]
REPORT: Toyota to add 850 more jobs in San Antonio to build more pickups originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: iTS, iTunes, Developer
After seeing the intent by developers and artists to create iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for their music, Apple has opened up the availability to develop these features to third parties. However, automatic submission for iTunes LP and iTunes Extras is not expected until early 2010; in the meantime, it’s still a limited process and uploads must be performed manually.
If you’re an iTunes contributor and you’re looking forward to developing an iTunes LP of your own, Apple has posted several resources for Extras & LP, including a best practices guide, a development guide, asset delivery tips and a testing guide.
There’s also templates to get you started, and documentation on the TuneKit framework used by iTunes LP and iTunes Extras. These make extensive use of the WebKit framework, while using many new web standards.
Are you going to be more interested in these features since it’s now open for development? Let us know in the comments below!
Apple documents iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for developers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple documents iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for developers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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While iTunes allows users to buy individual TV episodes for $1.99, or even buy a whole season—sometimes for a discount—users may in the future pay a $30 monthly fee and watch whatever TV they like. Industry insiders say this service will be an extension of iTunes Store itself instead of being limited to streaming via Apple TV.
According to multiple industry insiders that spoke to All Things Digital, Apple hopes to launch the service early next year. Apple’s VP of Internet Services, Eddy Cue, has been charged with drumming up interest among TV networks, though so far none have made a commitment to providing content available for the service. The sources so far are laying odds that Disney is likely to be the first to bite; it was the first studio to offer its movies via iTunes when Apple launched to feature in 2006. It also doesn’t hurt that Steve Jobs sits on Disney’s board and is one of its largest shareholders.
Go to Apple pitching TV subscription option for iTunes to networks
Filed under: iTunes, iPhone, iPod touch
While of my colleagues are tremendously excited about Norah Jones and iTunes LP, I’ve got to say I was far happier to discover the new iTunes 9 iPhone application management screens that Brett touched on yesterday (Sorry, Dave!). Located in the Applications tab for each iPhone and iPod touch device, the manager lets you organize your applications on a screen-by-screen basis from the comfort of your desktop. Unfortunately, the organizer remains fairly primitive.You can…
- …check or uncheck apps that you want to sync or not sync.
- …drag apps around individual pages to reorder them
- …drag apps between screens to reparent them.
- …change page order by dragging them within the page column.
And that’s pretty much it. There’s no way to sort your screens alphabetically or by category. There’s no way to copy or share layouts between devices. There’s no undo support if you change your mind about any changes. That having been said, there are some iTunes 9 tricks that may help you better organize your applications. Here are TUAW’s top four.
Use Command-Click to group apps. Command-clicking an application icon adds it to (or if already added, removes it from) the currently selected group. You can move groups all at once between pages.
Use empty pages. If you have the pages to spare, use the empty pages that iTunes makes available to you to help organize applications by “theme”. For example, you can drag an empty page into, say, the page 2 position and then start filling that page with games from the other pages. Adding apps to that empty page causes another empty page to appear at the end of the list if there is room. You’re limited to eight 11 pages total for your applications.
Use the dock. Your dock provides a home for up to four applications that you use the most. Docked applications appear on every page, offering the quickest access to your most-used apps. Don’t feel limited to the apps that the iPhone OS defaults to. It’s your dock. Use it the way that best suits you.
Use the home screen. If you have more than four apps that you need quick access to, don’t forget that the first screen of apps is always just a Home button click away. Tapping the home button when viewing apps automatically jumps you to the first page. Place your high priority apps on this first page if they fall short of the urgency of the dock items.
The new Application editor is certainly a great step forward from the way things were. Here’s hoping that Apple will make it even easier to manage your applications in future iTunes releases.
iTunes 9 Focus: Tips for editing your iPhone apps screens originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
iTunes 9 Focus: Tips for editing your iPhone apps screens originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As capable as most computers are today, typical OEM systems have fairly limited gaming prowess since it isn’t their market. Enthusiasts need more memory, more video card, more processor, more something beyond the basics that usually ship with the average pre-built box. And selecting your own components to fill your exact needs is much more fun and often cheaper once you start talking $1,000+ systems. The various enthusiast System Guides around the Internet can help, but here in our Gaming Boxes Guide, we aim to provide a little more gaming focus than we do in our main three-box System Guide.
Filed under: Bugs/Recalls, iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage
If you want to have a hot and steamy exchange with your sweetheart via AIM on the iPhone, you might want to think again — if you have an unlocked or jailbroken phone.
CrunchGear reports that Till Schadde with Equinux has discovered an iPhone exploit where AIM messages could be sent to random people without you even knowing it. Schadde discovered this when he was notified that a message he had sent to his iPhone version of AIM got intercepted by someone else. That person proceeded to contact Schaddle, sharing the screenshot shown at right with him. Schadde posted the screenshot and detailed the bug on Twitter after testing it once more from his computer.
The exploit is being blamed on iPhone 3.0’s push notification and seems to be limited to unlocked/jailbroken iPhones at the moment.
[Via CrunchGear]
TUAWiPhone push exploit sends AIM message to unintended recipients originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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AP – Iran’s Islamic leadership is prepared to conduct a limited recount of disputed presidential elections, a spokesman said Tuesday, as thousands of people took to the streets to show support for the regime and authorities cracked down on independent media.
I had two computers both connected to a wireless router. Yesterday I connected a third computer to the network and, although the connection goes through for this new computer, one of the original computers now says “Limited or no connectivity” and cannot connect to the Internet. Is it possible that the new computer is using up too much bandwidth and is therefore preventing the other computer from accessing the Internet?