Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Apple tablet | Papers live-blogging today's launch

[CEO Steve Jobs holds device in this New York Times photo]

I'm not at this morning's San Francisco debut for Apple's tablet, the much-hyped multimedia device that's expected to help newspaper publishers grab new paying readers. But the three national dailies are reporting details on what we now know has been dubbed the iPad, as the event continues unfolding; it started at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT:
Here's the WSJ's first video of the event, via Fox News:



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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/27/2010 6:27 PM

    You can lead a newspaper to water, but it won't innovate to save itself.

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  2. Anonymous1/27/2010 6:43 PM

    If I still had a job maybe I could order one. Nah... never made enough at Gannett to buy anything of this caliber. Maybe someday working for a better company!

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  3. Anonymous1/30/2010 3:19 PM

    Newspaper revenue falls faster as broadband access accelerates not the other way around. The iPad is no more than a laptop with a touch screen (giant iTouch).

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