Posts Tagged ‘newspaper’

There’s no doubt in my mind that eBooks etc are the way forward and that eReaders will be the preferred reading devices, but it comes back to what you’re reading. Mobiles & devices like the iPhone are great for snippets of news or for catching up on something while you’re hanging around in a departure [...]

Fujitsu Ltd are testing coloured ePaper readers in a cafe in Japan. Customers of “Termina Kinshicho Fujiya Restaurant” can pick up the terminals equipped with a color electronic paper module on the tables and browse newspapers and advertisements wirelessly sent to the terminals. The four companies will verify whether the electronic paper module can be [...]

So what’s changed with the Kindle? It’s thinner (thinner than an iPhone!), it’s has more memory, a 25% longer battery life, it can read to you (as long as you don’t mind Steven Hawkins or his twin sister reading to you that is) and thankfully, it doesn’t look like it was made in the 1980′s [...]

OK not exactly, but hey we’re talking newspapers here, and they’re not exactly know for their restraint with sensationalised headlines! Anyway, here’s an interesting link I just picked up on Jeff Jarvis’s blog. In essence using newspapers to post “Legal Notices” should now be a last resort not the default, as the circulation is deemed [...]

I could download music for “free” online, I could use peer to peer networks etc, but it takes time & quite a lot of effort to find what I want and the results aren’t always that good. So while I could get all my music for free, I instead pay for it all. Why? well [...]

Answer: Nothing! All that’s really gone is the “paper”, the “news” will still be there, and that’s all that matters… how you get it shouldn’t matter (of course we have plans for that!). Finally, someone else gets it, and thankfully that someone is Seth Godin (so hopefully a lot of people will listen & take [...]

The following is an edited version of a post from my personal blog I recently found my notes from a presentation I gave 13 years ago, at the time upon seeing it, everyone I knew thought I was nuts, as the basis of the presentation was simple “All music will be available online for free, [...]