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Another E-Book Publisher
Challenges Amazon

Feb 5, 2010 1:16 PM CST

Another E-Book Publisher Challenges Amazon

Hachette is third major house to push for higher, iPad-style prices

(Newser) - Hachette has joined Macmillan—and, seemingly, HarperCollins—in demanding control over the pricing of its e-books sold through Amazon, a move apparently sparked by Apple’s more flexible model for titles that will appear on its iPad. Hachette sent a letter to agents yesterday announcing it would seek an Apple-style...

Coming Soon: Another,
Mac-Like Apple Tablet

PER TECH RUMOR MILL

Feb 1, 2010 9:33 PM CST

Coming Soon: Another, Mac-Like Apple Tablet

Company was working on it as it developed iPad

(Newser) - Not sold on Apple’s new iPad? Well, if the tech rumor mill is correct (assuming it isn’t completely busted from the leadup to last week’s unveiling), “Apple is pretty far along on work on second tablet device,” MG Siegler reports for TechCrunch . “A bigger...

Steve Jobs:
Google's 'Don't
Be Evil' Is BS

Feb 1, 2010 8:35 AM CST

Steve Jobs: Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Is BS

Apple CEO slams Adobe, Google at company town-hall

(Newser) - Steve Jobs had some harsh words for Adobe and Google at a town hall-style meeting following the iPad's launch last week, Apple workers say. "We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business," Jobs said in reference to Google, a source tells Wired . "Make...

MadTV Mocked Apple's
iPad 4 Years Ago

Jan 28, 2010 11:59 AM CST

MadTV Mocked Apple's iPad 4 Years Ago

2006 sketch parodied what new Apple tablet sounds like it is

(Newser) - Looks like the yucksters at MadTV have Steve Jobs beat by four years when coming up with dubious names for tablet computers. Thing is, when the comedians made a jokey iPad sketch, their gadget was actually what Apple’s new toy sort of sounds like: a feminine hygiene product. Complete...

iPad's Fatal Flaw:
That Name

Jan 28, 2010 11:38 AM CST

iPad's Fatal Flaw: That Name

Women can't help thinking how absorbent it'll be

(Newser) - The name of Apple’s new tablet is already inspiring jokes, eye-rolling, and fretting among the business class, reminding many of a certain, umm, feminine product. Business Insider immediately declared the name “terrible,” and the Internet soon filled with snark. “How will it stand up to other...

McGraw-Hill's New Lesson: Don't Cross Steve Jobs

Jan 28, 2010 11:14 AM CST

McGraw-Hill's New Lesson: Don't Cross Steve Jobs

Publisher on the outs after CEO leaks news on TV

(Newser) - McGraw-Hill has been in the publishing biz for more than a century, but it got schooled in a modern business lesson yesterday: Beware the wrath of Steve Jobs. In his big iPad announcement, Jobs showed a slide of the publishers working with Apple on the new gizmo, but it had...

Apple Stunner:
Why Stick With
Overloaded AT&T
for iPad?

Jan 28, 2010 7:35 AM CST

Apple Stunner: Why Stick With Overloaded AT&T for iPad?

Analysts decry decision, Verizon stock plummets

(Newser) - Apple shocked investors and dismayed consumers yesterday by announcing that the iPad would run exclusively on AT&T, even though the iPhone is already straining that network to the breaking point. iPhone users tend to gobble up twice the bandwidth that other smartphone customers use, and AT&T has been...

iPad Leaves Porn
Connoisseurs Flat

OPINION

Jan 28, 2010 2:34 AM CST

iPad Leaves Porn Connoisseurs Flat

Size, content limits iPorn on iPad

(Newser) - The iPad looks unlikely to be changing the porn industry the way Internet-enabled computers and smartphones did—and not just because you need both hands to hold it. The device is designed to download from Apple's app store, the iTunes store, and the iBooks store, none of which are any...

Why I Hate the iPad

opinion

Jan 27, 2010 5:51 PM CST

Why I Hate the iPad

No multitasking or cameras, for starters

(Newser) - Adam Frucci is definitely not a fan of the Apple iPad, and he runs down his reasons at Gizmodo. Here's a sampling:

No multitasking: "This is a backbreaker. ... I can't have my Twitter app open at the same time as my browser? I can't have AIM open at the

...

iPad Looks Like a Winner

opinion

Jan 27, 2010 4:47 PM CST

iPad Looks Like a Winner

It's a 'dream screen for reading and watching,' says David Pogue

(Newser) - First things first: Apple hasn't given the iPad to any tech reviewers yet, so David Pogue warns against paying much attention to "hyperventilating" bloggers who love it or hate it. (Go here for an example.) Still, this thing shows definite promise, he writes. "It looks like Apple...

Apple
Unveils
the iPad

starts at $499

Jan 27, 2010 1:48 PM CST

Apple Unveils the iPad

Steve Jobs reveals the long-awaited tablet computer

(Newser) - It's out, finally. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad today, a tablet-style computer that resembles the iPhone, but larger. "It's so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone," Jobs said at the device's highly anticipated debut in San Francisco....

Apple Tablet Rollout Has Publishers Scrambling

Jan 27, 2010 7:46 AM CST

Apple Tablet Rollout Has Publishers Scrambling

War with Kindle to transform business

(Newser) - Book publishers were locked in last-minute talks with Apple ahead of today's unveiling of the tablet, which has been touted as promising to change the publishing industry as radically as the iPod did the music industry. The tablet's model for books, which puts it in direct competition with the Amazon...

Here's Hoping Apple Tablet
Is Like a Car

opinion

Jan 26, 2010 2:42 PM CST

Here's Hoping Apple Tablet Is Like a Car

Computers should be as easy to use as vehicles, appliances

(Newser) - Computers can do amazing things, but as anyone with a technophobic parent knows, they’re still way too complicated. That’s why Farhad Manjoo is hoping Apple’s new tablet will be “the first fully powered PC that is as simple to use as a kitchen appliance.” Sure,...

No-Name Bands Make a Killing
on iTunes

Jan 26, 2010 2:03 PM CST

No-Name Bands Make a Killing on iTunes

Equally anonymous distributors rise to the top of digital heap

(Newser) - You probably haven't heard of TuneCore, but the small startup has swiftly become the world’s biggest music distributor, helping bands you’ve also never heard of make a comfortable living selling music on iTunes. Unlike traditional distributors, which take a cut of music sales, TuneCore and similar digital distributors...

State of the Union,
Steve Jobs-Style

Jan 25, 2010 12:31 PM CST

State of the Union, Steve Jobs-Style

Consummate pitchman shows Obama how it's done

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s State of the Union address is scheduled for January 27, the same day Steve Jobs will unveil his “latest creation.” Coincidence? Of course not! Jobs is delivering the speech, and Slate has a early draft:

“We made a stimulus package. It had the most

...

NFL Inspires
Preemptive Irritation

NFL PLAYOFFS

Jan 24, 2010 5:11 AM CST

NFL Inspires Preemptive Irritation

Favre? Manning? Jets and insufferable NYC media? Ugh, ugh, ugh

(Newser) - Sunday’s NFL conference championship games provide the impetus for Katie Baker to vent her preemptive irritation: No matter the result, we’re all in for two weeks of tiresome crap about something(s): Brett Favre, Brett Favre versus Peyton Manning, the New York Jets and their tiresome media and fan...

Apple Really Does Want to Save Old Media

Jan 21, 2010 10:20 AM CST

Apple Really Does Want to Save Old Media

Tablet aims to reinvent newspapers, mags as iPod did music biz

(Newser) - Apple thinks its new tablet could revolutionize print media and television the way the iPod revolutionized the music business. The company has been in talks with top book, magazine, and newspaper publishers, the Wall Street Journal reports, as well as television companies, to bring their content to the device. Unlike...

App Store Coming to Kindle

Jan 21, 2010 8:30 AM CST

App Store Coming to Kindle

Will make Amazon device more like Apple's rumored tablet

(Newser) - Something a lot like apps will soon grace the Kindle, Amazon announced today. Amazon calls the program “active content,” envisioning interactive books, guides, and magazine and newspaper subscriptions. The news just happens to come days before Apple’s announcement of its own e-reader tablet, but this isn’t...

Apple in Talks With Microsoft to Switch iPhones to Bing

google now enemy No. 1

Jan 20, 2010 10:52 AM CST

Apple in Talks With Microsoft to Switch iPhones to Bing

Apple looks to cooperate with Microsoft as Google rivalry heats up

(Newser) - In a sign of just how tense Apple’s rivalry with Google has gotten, the software giant is in talks with archrival Microsoft to make Bing the primary search engine on the iPhone. The negotiations have been underway for weeks, sources tell Businessweek. “Apple and Google know the other...

Apple to Unveil
'Latest Creation'
on Jan. 27

whatever could it be?

Jan 18, 2010 12:27 PM CST

Apple to Unveil 'Latest Creation' on Jan. 27

Press invited to event and hope to see long-rumored tablet

(Newser) - You might not be on the invite list to grab a first look at what will likely be Apple’s rumored tablet device, but the Wall Street Journal is. The paper reports that it just received an invite to the Jan. 27 San Francisco event where the computer maker will...