June 18th, 2012
Microsoft Surface Builds Tablet Momentum
I watched the Microsoft Surface tablet announcement this evening and I knew pretty quickly that I was looking at a winner (see mea culpa below).
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January 23rd, 2012
One-Third of American Adults Own a Dedicated e-Reading Device
You’ll be seeing the graph below a lot in the next few days and weeks. Often the headline will read “20 per cent of Americans Own an e-Reader” or “Tablet and E-Book Reader Ownership Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period” which is the theme of the Pew report announcement. But the big number appears on page…
July 8th, 2011
Take Two Tablets Before Bed…and Fifty PCs
I suggest to publishers and the software vendors serving them that they take 25 PCs for every tablet they want to ingest because that will be the ratio of PCs in use around the world for each tablet (by December/2012). All Things Digital today recharged the iPad hype engine with its article “Tablet of Choice…
November 30th, 2010
Head Over to the New York Times
The New York Times is positively bursting with fun and fascinating reading for publishing technologists. There’s a nifty little tablet comparison feature, which will allow you to create your own comparison chart like this one: Your chart will be larger, and might just compare the two tablets you’re lusting after the most. Keep in mind that if…