by Allen Weiner | January 27, 2010 | 6 Comments
Rumors being what they are, much of what Steve Jobs announced at the Ipad launch event didn’t come as a surprise to the overload crowd at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The iPad is a tweener that fits nicely between an iPhone/iTouch and netbook computer. With a 9.7-inch screen weighing in at 1.5 [...]
Category: Apple Mobile Newspapers magazines Tags: Alex, Apple, AT&T, Dell, e-books, entourage systems, iPad, iPod, Plastic Logic, Publishing, Sony, Spring Design, Sprint, Verizon
by Allen Weiner | January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments
Based on the number of pre-event press calls and steady stream of press releases, the E in CES 2010 stands for e-reading. Two days before I land in Las Vegas, I envision devices in every form factor each proclaiming to be the best thing to hit publishing since the AP Stylebook. I have now lost [...]
Category: Amazon Newspapers Publishing magazines Tags: Alex, Apple, CES, CES 2010, entourage systems, Plastic Logic, Que, Skiff, Spring Design
by Allen Weiner | November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
From Fremont, Calif.,-based Spring Design comes the Alex, an e-reader slated for a CES coming out party. Alex, named for the Ancient Library of Alexandria, once the largest and most famous libraries of the ancient world, is notable for its support of the Android operating system as well as its use of two screens, capable [...]
Category: Publishing Tags: Alex, Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, E Ink, Google, HTML, Kindle, Nook, Spring Design
