Tag: SUBSCRIPTIONS

Apple has just announced that its recurring subscription plans will not only be available to magazine-type apps. Any content-based app, such as Hulu, Netflix or Spotify will be able to take advantage of Apple's App Store billing system. The plot thickens, though: Apple has mandated that all content-based subscription services must enable in-app sign-up. In other words, if Hulu Plus is available ...

After much fanfare and some delays, Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. have launched The Daily, the first "iPad newspaper." The Daily is the first app to take advantage of a new subscription model in Apple's App Store, with each edition automatically pushed to subscribers as soon as it comes out. The low weekly 99 cents price should convince many skeptics to give The Daily a trial run, but what will ...

Apple's iPad might become the white knight the ailing newspaper publishing industry has been looking for. Steve Jobs and co. are reportedly nearing the announcement of newspaper subscription plans on the iPad, bringing your daily paper to the growing tablet market. The dealbreaker, up until now, has been your personal data, which newspapers need to sell ads. Apple didn't want to give up ...

Skype, the app that's famous for enabling cheap voice and video calls over the internet, is about to get even cheaper. Skype is set to introduce monthly subscription plans in 170 countries, bringing the cost of calls down significantly for frequent users. On top of that, there are rumors that Skype's long-awaited group video chat feature might enter beta as early as next week. The plans start ...

Internet radio service Last.fm is holding off on a plan to begin charging customers outside of the US, UK, and Germany a monthly fee to access streaming music. The move has received a fair amount of criticism, primarily from users who don't want to shell out 3 Euros a month to pay for the service. In a blog post today, the company explains that it hasn't been able to make enough money from ...

Ugh. I'm buried under unread RSS feeds. Right now if I look down at Google Reader Notifier (a Firefox Add-In), I see that I've got 1927 unread items in my subscriptions. I thought I was being responsible; I've got my feeds split up into logical categories, including one called "Now", which is the stuff I told myself I would always stay current on. Google Reader won't tell me exactly how many ...

Google Reader has received a major UI overhaul and joined its sibling Google apps with the introduction of a full-blown "Settings" page. Users finally have a powerful management panel for their Subscriptions and Labels, allowing batch operations for deleting, renaming and shuffling subscriptions around. The Google Reader team even went so far as to allow you to toggle whether animations play ...