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News Cooperative Creates Touch-Friendly Mobile News Service for Windows Phones

As newspapers seek a way to thrive in the world of digital media, The Associated Press is assisting by identifying new outlets and revenue streams for member news providers. Its first response is AP Mobile, which delivers international, national, and local news from more than 1,000 content providers to Windows...

Tags: Phone, Associated Press, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies 2009-10-23

AP Stylebook for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

AP Stylebook for iPhone is an essential tool for writers, editors, students, and public relations professionals. It provides fundamental guidelines on spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage and journalistic style, with special sections on reporting business and sports. This app lets you to search listings across all chapters, create your own custom...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Associated Press, Public Relations, Smart Phones, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-05

Virtual Access Point 2.2 (Windows)

Virtual AP is an easy-to-use software that turns any Internet-connected laptop into a Wi-Fi wireless access point. So anyone nearby can surf the Internet through your sharing. Also, your iPhone, iPod, PDA, mobile or what ever, can enjoy the Internet by connecting to the wireless network broadcasted by Virtual AP....

Tags: Microsoft Access, Mobile, Associated Press, Microsoft Windows, Access Point Inc., Wireless, DGTSoft, Internet, 3G, Advertising & Promotion, PDAs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-17

AP, Meet AC. And, BTW, News is Not Really 'Monetizable,' on the Web.

The Associated Press was created in 1846 as a news cooperative. The idea was to allow member newspapers (and later, radio and TV stations) to combine costs in covering, reporting on and distributing news of import to its members. Its 21st Century counterpart, Associated Content, goes it...

Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Associated Press, News, AC, Associated Content, Channel Management, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-17

AP Mobile News Network 3.0 (Mobile)

AP Mobile News lets you keep up to do on what's happening anywhere, in your home town or across the globe. Personalize your news to meet your needs. Choose form entertainment, sports, and top stories. Combine local news from your trusted local newspapers and broadcasters with AP's videos, photo galleries,...

Tags: Mobile, Associated Press, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-17

News Agency Integrates Editorial Processes With Familiar Productivity Tools

With more than 4,000 employees worldwide, the Associated Press AP produces journalism of the highest quality and reliability, delivering it quickly from every corner of the world. To meet emerging trends in journalism, develop richer content, accelerate publication, and reduce costs, the AP needed to develop new tools for creating,...

Tags: Associated Press, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2009-06-16

We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.

One of the things to remember about the Associated Press is that it's run by newspaper executives, those same decision-makers who largely resisted the influence of technology on their business models and are now dealing with the fallout of layoffs, bankruptcies and complete closures because of it. ...

Tags: Web, Associated Press, Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-08

News to know: Sun-IBM; Cloudforce; Windows 7 downgrade; AP's crackdown

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Associated Press, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems

Blog posts 2009-04-07

AP eyes news aggregators; Risks exposing its lack of value add

So the Associated Press is mad and isn't going to take it anymore. It's eyeing news aggregators who are stealing a few paragraphs and failing to link to it as an authoritative source.  Be careful what you wish for AP. Bloggers and news aggregators are a smart...

Tags: Associated Press, DefenseLink, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-06

AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.

The Associated Press said today that it will sue news aggregators - read: Google - that use its content without permission, another effort to save what's left of the newspaper industry. The news cooperative didn't specifically name Google in its statement but resentment has been brewing against...

Tags: Google Inc., Associated Press, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-06

AP: iPod touch is poor man's iPhone

The AP's Andrew Vanacore wrote a review of the iPod touch claiming that it's a great alternative to the iPhone. I try to keep a stiff upper lip about not having an iPhone. Just couldn't afford it â€" not with the $75 a month or...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Associated Press, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Facebook: We were worth $3.7 billion

Facebook reckoned that it had a market value of about $3.7 billion in an appraisal conducted after it sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft that implied a value of $15 billion for the social networking outfit, according to the Associated Press. The Associated Press discovered Facebook's...

Tags: Facebook, Associated Press, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Hope poster artist sued, arrested

News of the weird. First Obama poster artist Shepard Fairey is sued by AP for copyright infringement for using a wire service photo as a model for his artwork (a particularly obnoxious assertion of copyright: if painting from a photo is copyright infringement, why doesn't AP sue the estate of...

Tags: Associated Press, Artist, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Sun rise or Sun set?

Strange days indeed when reporters can look at the same exact numbers and come out with the opposite headline. Open source puts a shine on Sun's quarter, writes Big Money Matt Asay over at C!Net. Sun Microsystems skids to $209 million quarterly loss, writes the AP. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Associated Press, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Leveraging Accounts Payable Automation as a Service

Read this new white paper, "Leveraging Accounts Payable Automation as a Service," and learn how you can deploy quickly with no IT costs. Discover the advantages of AP automation Software as a Service SaaS. All you need is an Internet connection to: Cut invoice processing time...

Tags: Accounts Payable, Associated Press, Invoice, Esker S.A., Automation, Operational Accounting, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2009-01-01

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...

Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty â€" perhaps, hypocritical â€" record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...

Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

AP Art History Flashcards 3.1 (Windows)

AP Art History Flashcards is a computer program that contains over 900+ AP Art History flashcards which offers an inexpensive and effective way to review the material that will be on the AP Art History Test. What the Program offers: The program is easy to use and versatile. You can...

Tags: Associated Press, Virtual Flashcards, AP Art History Flashcards, AP Art History, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-28

An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution link

Associated Press upset a lot of people with its new policy of restricting the use of its news stories in blogs and other web sites. But I have a proposal that could benefit everyone that creates content that is re-used or quoted by others. My proposal is...

Tags: Associated Press, Internet, Web Site Development, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-21

AP backs down on blogging policy

Looks like the AP has completely backed off on its idea of holding bloggers to account for quoting their news articles. AP now appears content to have "provided information" to Drudge Retort. Full statement, via PaidContent: "In response to questions about the use of Associated Press content on the...

Tags: Associated Press, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-20