Tag Archives: iPad

iPad for dinner?

Jesse Oyegbesan | 31 October 2011, 9:00 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

The iPad is an all purpose tool. It is ideal to surf on the Internet, play games or other entertainment purposes. However, Apple’s Tablet PC is also capturing more and more restaurants all over the world as an interactive menu. The introduction of interactive menus seems to be a profitable business for gastronomes – but how do customers benefit?

A corporate view on mobile app development – interview with BM&FBOVESPA’s Web Projects Coordinator, João Magalhães Lima.

Daniel Luiz dos Santos | 31 October 2011, 3:21 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

BM&FBOVESPA is the Brazilian stock exchange, and one of the largest in the world.
Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, it has offices in Rio de Janeiro, New York, Shanghai and London.

João Magalhães Lima is the Web Projects Coordinator for the Communications Department of BM&FBOVESPA, and responsible for managing projects ranging from social media strategy to mobile applications development.…

Property is no longer theft

Marnick van der Zee | 13 September 2011, 12:00 pm | tags: , , , ,

A patent war is the latest problem that has hit the Internet culture and it’s innovation. There have been a lot of statements and press releases about the subject in the media. Hardware giants like  Apple and Samsung have been battling each other in courts all over the world. The main problem is about the technology involving…

How to make beautiful music (audibly & visually) without being a musician

Janice Wong | 10 May 2011, 11:53 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Composing and representing music visually has traditionally been through music notation. Using a 5 lined “staff” or “stave” as a framework, black circles with lines are drawn to represent pitch and length of notes with other markings such as “slur” or “staccato” to represent phrasing and articulation.

Experienced musicians can get a good impression on how a piece should sound…

Why the iPad will change the e-reader

Mathijs Voordenberg | 21 October 2010, 3:40 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

E-readers are on the market for a while but the digital version of the book never got really popular. Readers were slow, dull, and not sexy at all. The image of the e-reader changed a couple of months ago with the introduction of the iPad. The iPad, which was never specially designed as an e-reader had and will have a…

Alice in iPad, the New Wonderland.

Ilektra Pavlaki | 20 October 2010, 11:45 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Will fairy tales live happily ever after in the digital publishing era?

Once upon a time, electronic signatures didn’t designate us as individuals, passwords didn’t determine if we would be denied or not the access in data and emoticons didn’t constitute “the artificial warrant and guarantee of our human presence” (David Gunkel, Debra Hawhee – Virtual…

A Clay Tablet Is Not a Book

Mareline Heijman | 19 October 2010, 2:03 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Mcluhan believed the medium to be the message. When we are trying to understand the effects of the medium, we ought to analyze the medium. And when the medium changes, the message is bound to transform.

Who’s utopian vision is it to carry all your files, music, films, images and “books” on an exterior device? More and more we’ve incorporated…

Booklistening

Jidi Guo | 18 October 2010, 3:05 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Late November this year Folium Partners, LLC will launch the world’s first automated audiobook and app-creation service under the name ModernBookFactory.com. The service will give the opportunity to independent digital publishers, authors and copyright owners to upload their manuscripts, select narrators and receive professionally produced audio. ModernBookFactory also produce  the books as self-contained audiobook apps within 30 days.…

E-books Should Take a Page Out of The Internet

Erik van Bemmelen | 18 October 2010, 2:28 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Being a student of New Media, people I know who are less involved in the world of new media sometimes turn to me with questions on the latest technological developments that are being covered in the news. As if I personally were responsible for the launch of every new device, I get subjected to a barrage of questions (I do…

Wired on Wired

Sander Jansma | 18 October 2010, 1:40 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Caution: this article is not meant for people who don’t like Wired.

Offline: The Magazine

I am and always have been a big fan of Wired. I like their “Californian Ideology”,  their almost child-like enthusiasm and optimistic view on life and I like how they think technology can change the world in a techno-deterministic way. And because I am a…