Hello iPad, Goodbye PC

Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 27-01-2010

The New Republic has published my commentary on Apple’s iPad announcement. I reprint it here: The PC era ended this morning at ten oclock Pacific time, when Steve Jobs mounted a San Francisco stage to unveil the iPad, Apples version of a tablet computer. What made the moment epochal was not so much the gadget itself – an oversized iPod Touch tricked out with an e-reader application and a few other new features – but the clouds of hype that attended its arrival. Tablet computers have been kicking around for a decade, but consumers have always shunned them. Theyve been…

MacBook in Old Leather

Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 27-01-2010

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CrunchGear: Heres something thats custom and unique for protecting your Mac Book the BookBook. Based on the concept of hiding in plain sight, the BookBook case resembles an antique leather-bound book.

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