iPad’s Impact on Digital Content
May 24, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Industry News
iPad’s Impact on Digital Content Explored at NYC Event This past Thursday at NYC’s Time Warner Center, Andrew Richard Albanese, writer and features editor for Publishers Weekly, Rachel Chou, Chief Marketing Officer for Open Road Integrated Media and attorney Kathleen Conkey participated on a panel lead by Chris Kenneally, Director of Author Relations, Copyright Clearance [...]
Beyond The Book: Beyond Print & Paper
May 23, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
“Thank you” to our friends at The Copyright Clearance Center for their support, and sponsorship for our event last week “Beyond Print & Paper…” It was a wonderful event…and the the folks at CCC included it as part of their podcast series “Beyond The Book.” Thanks to our moderator Chris Kenneally of The Copyright Clearance [...]
What iPads Did To My Family
May 8, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Technology
Fun story by Chuck Hollis/VP -Global Marketing and CTO EMC Corporation from his blog “Chuck’s Blog: A EMC’s insider perspective on information, technology and customer challenges…” This one is most definitely off-topic, but you might find it interesting. Last Sunday, I broke down and bought a non-3G iPad. I just was too damn curious. Walked [...]
iPad Can Run Norway, But Still Can’t Multitask
April 25, 2010 by Len Schneiderman
Filed under Technology
Catch this photo of Norway’s Prime Minister working on his iPad while stranded in New York due to delays caused by the volcano in Iceland. (With tongue-in-cheek courtesy of PCWorld.) The subhead of the CNN on-line article (which I believe was first with the photo) was “Running a country? There’s an app for that.” SEE [...]
Life Without a Netbook: A Work Week With Just my iPad
April 18, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Technology
OK…here’s the deal. I have 2 desktops (and old HP & Compaq running Windows XP) that are gathering dust, 3 laptops (a MacBook, a Dell running windows 7 and an ASUS running Linux). I was in the Apple store last week tooling around with an iPad and can see why people love them so much. [...]
Will it Blend: The iPad
April 6, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
it was just a matter of time that Tom Dickson, the founder of BlendTec and the host of “Will it Blend?” got his hands on an iPad. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, Will It Blend? is a viral marketing campaign consisting of a series of infomercials demonstrating [...]
JooJoo: the next iPad?
April 4, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Companies
I have been hearing about this thing for a while and now it’s here…however it began shipping the same day the iPad hit stores…how ironic. by Ryan Kim SFGate/The Technology Chronicles I’ve got my hands on a new JooJoo tablet and I’m hoping to put together a more thoughtful rundown of the device later. But [...]
Wanna check out Steve’s new Pad?
April 3, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Companies, People
Excellent article in the April 12, 2010 issue of TIME magazine by Steven Fry It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where Apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough [...]
Bill Gates: iPad Critic?
February 11, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Technology
from BNET Bill Gates Joins the iPad’s Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldn’t Care Less. By Brent Schlender February 10th, 2010 With the sudden ridicule of Steve Jobs’ new do-everything media player, Apple has abruptly become a ripe target for those who would like to take it down a notch. The tsunami of criticism is [...]
The Secret Behind the iPad’s Low Price
January 31, 2010 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Technology
Wondering how Apple can sell the iPad for under $500? from BNETApple iPad Price, Features Say “ARM” All Over By Chris Dannen | Jan 27, 2010 Here’s what you need to know about the iPad: it’s a 9.7-inch touchscreen pad that’s half an inch thick, sports WiFi and 3G, and runs apps, reads e-books and [...]

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