Press: MPA Makes Headway in Tablet Me…
MPA, the Association of Magazine Media, has finally released a game plan to implement its guidelines for standardizing digital magazine metrics, which it hopes will encourage advertisers to commit to the growing number of tablet editions. Last spring, the MPA’s Tablet Metrics Task Force released a list of voluntary guidelines for publishers to follow, include [...]
250 million tablets will be sold in 2013–Short
Wall Street Ends Near Flat; Correction Worry RisesReuters U.S. stocks ended little changed on Monday with indexes hovering near record levels as concerns about a correction … Read full story here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/explosive-tablets-sales-overtake-pcs-180058286.html
New York Times Plans to Expand via Digital into other Countries
The New York Times attracts over 40 million readers to their website every month and the company sees it as a drop in the bucket. The newspaper is planning to expand into foreign language markets with a localized edition and unique content written by reporters based in those countries. One of the big reasons why [...]
Digital Comics: Hunter Gorinson on Valiant’s Digital Strategy
Valiant Entertainment is the newest incarnation of a legendary comics publisher that was founded in 1989 by former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, drew in fans with strong, character-driven stories, and then fell on hard times and ceased publication in the early 2000s. The current owners bought the company in 2005 and began launching comics based [...]
Hangouts quietly gets a new update to fix tablet woes
Google this week at Google I/O unveiled its unified messaging service called Hangouts (our app review here). The Google Talk replacement has had a rocky launch, causing update woes for many, especially those with a tablet. Rest assured that Google has quietly pushed out a new update for Hangouts, which will make the app compatible with tablets [...]
Creator Posts Link to His Own Comic on a Pirate Site
Writer Ian Sharman wants readers to buy his new book Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus, but he realizes some folks haven’t read the first volume, which comprises issues #1-#4. So he’s making the first collection available digitally, for free, but he’s letting others do the work: On his Tumblr, Sharman posted a link to [...]
Tablet v PC
In the face of a slump in PC sales and industry debate over whether the smartphone or tablet is now the preferred tool for a large segment of domestic and even small business users, Asus continues to release a number of combined and flexible devices that try to play on both sides of the dividing [...]
French culture minister backs tablet tax plan
France’s culture minister on Tuesday defended plans to tax tablet computers and smartphones to help fund support for the country’s culture industry, and said that France will not allow trade talks with the US to undermine the way it supports filmmakers and other artists. France has long provided support for artistic production in the country, [...]
Kitchen-Ready Tablet Is Not Really Ready for the Kitchen
If you can’t stand the heat… Photo: Archos Finding your niche in the cut-throat tablet market is the key to success. Or at least the key to landing in a few kitchens. Archos introduced the ChefPad today. It’s a 9.7-inch Android tablet aimed at the budding chef in all of us. Archos says the tablet [...]
On Computers: Your tablet will work on your home network
I was looking at the new Samsung tablets when I overheard an argument. Dad was jousting with daughter over paying the bill for data access into the tablet. Like a taxi cab, “the meter is always running.” This is one of the urban legends of the tablet era. NO CONTRACT NEEDED You don’t need a [...]
Notion Ink reveals dual-screen Adam II tablet; price Rs 12000
Sponsored link: Follow Cricket live on Scoryboard Mumbai: Just days after learning that Notion Ink is working on the second-generation Adam tablet, specs of the device have been revealed in a somewhat official manner. At the recent National Technology Day Awards, specs and features of Adam II tablet were revealed and Engadget has got hold [...]
Roundup: Quirky tablet styluses
When you’re writing and drawing and painting in the real world, you have a wide choice of pens, pencils, markers and brushes. When you’re doing it on a tablet, you probably stick with your finger (unless you have an active digitiser pen with a tablet like the Surface Pro or a “phablet” like the Samsung [...]
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