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"Magazine publisher Conde Nast has launched an enterprise edition of Idea Flight, its app for group presentations on the iPad, as well as several notable upgrades to the original version.\nHow It Works\nIdea Flight [iTunes link], which has been downloaded 85,000 times since its launch in June, lets one person (\"the pilot\") control up to 15 users' (\"the passengers\") iPad screens remotely while running through a presentation, keeping slides in sync. Presentations can be unlocked to let passengers revisit the slides at a later time.\nUsers need a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection to participate. Only PDF presentations, which easily be pulled up from email, iTunes or Dropbox, are supported at this time.\nThe app is free for passengers; pilots will need to make a $7.99 in-app purchase.\nNew Features\nIn the updated version (Idea Flight 1.1), pilots and passengers can jot down and save notes during a presentation, a feature that's not only highly useful, but provides an opportunity for the audience be further engaged with the material in front of them.\nPilots can also now manually adjust the size, scale and orientation of their presentation, as well as set a boarding passcode to prevent unwanted access.\nIdea Flight for the Enterprise\nConde Nast also released an Enterprise edition [iTunes link] of Idea Flight in public beta.\nA Conde Nast spokesperson said the company received \"tremendous interest\" from education professionals and decided to make a $9.99 version available to them via the iTunes Stores's Volume Purchase Program.\nThe $9.99 price covers the in-app upgrade fees and waives any potential upgrade fees in the future. The company has also pledged to work with educators to further optimize the product for them.\nConde Nast's Broader Mobile Strategy\nIn an email interview, Conde Nast President Bob Sauerberg said Idea Flight arose out of an initiative late last year to develop digital products independent of the company's existing brands, several of which \u2014 including Vogue, Wired, Conde Nast Traveler and Glamour \u2014 have launched one-off smartphone apps and/or iPad versions of their print publications.\n\"Idea Flight is the result of a small group of incredibly talented individuals who personally desired a way to view content natively on their iPad, as well as present it in a controlled manner. We knew that if they wanted and would use this app, there was a good chance there would be a market for it,\" Sauerberg said.\nThe company will continue to develop independent apps as part of a broader strategy to position the company as a digital innovator and create new revenues streams, he added \u2014 a strategy not dissimilar to Hearst's, which launched a \u201Cthink tank\u201D for app development and advertising across the company\u2019s many brands earlier this summer.\nTime Inc., meanwhile, is working to bring all 21 of its titles to multiple tablet devices by the end of the year."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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