I’m sad to say that I will no longer be writing for Lean Back 2.0, and as such, this last post will be on a new survey that’s very much relevant to this blog’s raison d’etre: tablets! A frequent question tech critics have raised is whether the iPad Mini will cannibalize sales from the original [...]
Tags: Apple, iPad mini, reading, tablets
November 15 2012
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November 8 2012
On Tuesday voters did not just turn out in droves to cast their votes for the next president of the United States. They also took to social media and let the world know which candidate they voted for. 22 percent of registered voters let others know how they voted on a social networking site, primarily [...]
Tags: election2012, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, Pew, Twitter
Tags: election2012, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, Pew, Twitter
October 31 2012
Last week, John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist, spoke on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show”, along with Stephen Shepard, dean of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism and former senior editor at Newsweek and BusinessWeek. Given the recent announcement by Newsweek and the difficulties most print publishers are going through, [...]
Tags: advertising, content, ideas, journalism, magazines, publishing
Tags: advertising, content, ideas, journalism, magazines, publishing
October 23 2012
Even before Apple sent out its vague and short-of-information invitation for today’s press event, speculation had been growing about the imminent launch of an iPad “mini”. At today’s event, Apple satisfied the media and its consumers by confirming that it would indeed be coming out with a 7.9-inch version of its popular iPad, called iPad [...]
Tags: Apple, iPad, iPad mini, kindle, Kindle Fire, tablet
Tags: Apple, iPad, iPad mini, kindle, Kindle Fire, tablet
October 19 2012
For those who missed it yesterday, Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, and Baba Shetty, chief executive, announced that Newsweek would end its print edition at the end of the year. Citing a recent Pew study, Brown and Shetty wrote, “In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at [...]
Tags: digital, magazines, Newsweek, print, publishing
Tags: digital, magazines, Newsweek, print, publishing
The future of mobile news
Even with the popularity of apps, browsers rank supreme
October 12 2012
Every morning before I leave the house, I do a quick scan of the top news stories on Flipboard. Later during the evening, as I’m watching TV or making dinner, I’ll check Flipboard again but this time for the more interesting and “cool” stories. I assumed that most mobile news readers generally had the same [...]
Tags: Apple, apps, browsers, news, print, smartphone, tablet, websites
Tags: Apple, apps, browsers, news, print, smartphone, tablet, websites
