Welcome to the Visiolink newsletter - June 2011

Jens Berg

The media houses are all in a very dynamic market and new business models are being tried, especially in the smartphone/tablet-area. We are therefore proud that Visiolinks Norwegian customer “Nordlys” won the award for "Innovation Of The Year" at the Nordic Media Festival 2011. The award is given to Nordlys for the iPhone/iPad App that Visiolink has developed in close cooperation with the Norwegian “A-Pressen”.

On the whole we can see that the media groups agreed interest in smartphone/tablet solutions is increasing rapidly and continuously App-launches in both Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark keeps us busy – but busy in a nice way!

Jens Funder Berg, CEO, Visiolink

"News on the iPad"

The Danish report "News on the iPad" written by Jon Lund investigates many of the App-solutions available today, including solutions Visiolink has developed together with Politiken, Ekstra Bladet, Jyllands-Posten and Berlingske - a report where the media houses and publishers can get Jon Lund's assessment on the different types of solutions. You can also get access to the report in Danish from here. Read about the report here.

News from Visiolink R&D

Update

Read about some of the new features that you can benefit from in your usage of E-pages in presentation of pricing structure and Flash teaser generation

Read about the new features here.

Local newspapers ready for iPad

Over the past several months, the Danish national newspapers have published digital versions of their daily newspapers on iPad and iPhone.

Midtjyllands Avis is now also published in an edition on iPad and iPhone, as the first Danish local newspaper. This is a new exciting development, which shows that newspapers covering a region or locality, can now also obtain the benefits of publishing the newspaper on tablets and smartphones.

Read more here.

News from the media industry

Here you can read selected stories rom the media industry.

New York Times shows paid content can have value
That over 100,000 people have paid for online access to The New York Times since it began charging in March offers hope for those who feel online content needs value.
Read more.
(Kilde: NewMediaAge)

The Times Has 25,000 iPad Readers Each Day
Twenty-five thousand people read The Times on iPad each day. Its stablemate The Sunday Times counts 22,000 readers, including two million iPad page views.
Read more.
(Kilde: paidContent:UK)

Converting Printing Plants into Data Centers … More Irony in the Publishing Industry
I/O Data Centers opened their latest modular data center facility at the former site of the New York Times printing plant in Edison, NJ.
Read more.
(Kilde: InfoTrends)

Nordlys wins "Innovation Of The Year" Award

The Norwegian newspaper Nordlys has just received the “Innovation Of The Year” award for its iPad app. The app combines the benefits of different types of news coverage by serving the “traditional” newspaper, online news and web TV in the same app. The media conference “Nordic Media Festival”, held in Bergen in Norway, stands behind the award. Visiolink has provided the solution.

Read more about the award here.

Watch and get smarter

It's not always the case, that you yourself have the opportunity to participate in all conferences that might be relevant for you. Therefore it can be a help, that many conferences now have started to release videos on the web after the conference.

Read and see more here.

iPad Apps from Visiolink

The following Apps developed by Visiolink are now released on Apple's App Store:

- Svenska Dagbladet

- Jyllands-Posten

- Politiken

- Ekstra Bladet

- Berlingske

- BNY

- Berlingske Politiko

- Nordlys

- Adresseavisen

- iTromsø

- Dagens Næringsliv

- Sunnmørsposten

- TipsBladet

- Midtjyllands Avis

- Bergensavisen

- Weekendavisen

- Kauppalehti

- Aftenposten eAvis

- Aftenposten Arkiv