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Last week Apple announced Mountain Lion, the next version of OS X (formerly known as Mac OS X) that will be released this summer. Apple introduces Mountain Lion with: "it’s designed with innovations from iPad and it works even better with iCloud." I find the latter an understatement, this release is all about making OS X a real member of the iCloud family joining iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple TV. Mac integration was an important missing piece in Apple's bigger strategy to make iCloud the center of the user's multi-device experience. read more >>

Yesterday was an exciting day.

For Apple fans with the release of iOS5 and iPhone 4S. For publishers even more so with the launch of the Apple Newsstand.

With the Newsstand magazines and newspapers now have their own shelf on your iPad homescreen. This means they no longer they have to compete for a space on your homescreen with Angry Birds and the other 140,000 iPad Apps. Even more important is the automatic download and notification. When you are subscribed to a title your new issues will be delivered automatically on your iPad. Like the good old days of print when your issues where delivered to your doorstep.

We're happy to see many WoodWing customers appearing in the Newsstand at launch. From the Americas I saw titles such as Car and Driver, Motor Trend Magazine, Once Magazine and multiple titles from Meredith: Better Homes & Gardens, Parents Magazine and Fitness Magazine. European titles such as VG Helg, Klick (Aftonbladet) and Corriere dello Sport (daily newspaper publishing 4 regional editions every day) and Asian titles such as PhotoJ etc.

Now it's the day after, so let's explore what Apple can (and should) improve to make this great concept even better. read more >>

With Steve we have lost the greatest visionair and genius of our generation. 

I praise myself lucky that I have met Steve personally and will never forget the moment we got his invite and the 90 minutes meeting we had to discuss the future of publishing on the iPad.

Let us all remember and enjoy the great things Steve did for the Computer, Music, Phone, Entertainment and Publishing industry. 

@Steve - thanks for all and rest in peace

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Time Inc. earlier this week announced that they will launch tablet editions for their complete US portfolio. All of the 21 titles will launch on all leading tablet platforms: Apple iPad, Android Marketplace, HP TouchPad, Next Issue Media’s store and Barnes & Nobles NOOK Color. That's a bold move: launching 17 new titles, 4 apps each, so 68 Apps in less than 5 months... And all designed for tablet, interactive magazines.

It's clear that Time Inc. believes in the future of tables after the initial sucess of their 4 flagship products: TIME Magazine, People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune. Time Inc. 

Last month Sports Illustrated shared how they have fully integrated tablet publishing into their workflow. This reveals an important secret how Time is able to move so agressively to all these tablets: There Is No “Digital Department”

We're very proud to see how WoodWing's Enterprise Publishing System is used as important corner storen to enable and support Time Inc's digital ambitions.

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The WoodWing CDS allows publishers to send a push notification to their iPad users, typically used to announce new issues. Having this ability to directly notify readers is a very powerful concept that deserves some more attention. read more >>