Taiwan's DigiTimes is reporting today that Apple has decided to postpone the launch of its pending tablet product until the second half of 2010. The main reason for the supposed delay is switch in the displays being used: Apple, the...
Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times.Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits. Rather than visiting the front pages of every newspaper or choosing a few out of brand loyalty, as Murdoch hopes consumers will do, aggregators put all of the Web's big headlines of the moment onto one page. There's no shortage in news aggregation. General news readers might go to Google News, a computer-generated engine that pulls in more than 25,000 newspaper websites and authoritative blogs. Left-leaning political consumers might visit the Huffington Post; right-leaning...
Borders and Barnes & Noble posted downbeat results and expressed fear the weak economy will keep shoppers from stores despite offerings from well-known authors." />
Barnes & Noble said it won't have any of its Nook electronic-book reading devices in stores until Dec. 7, so that it can meet shipments of pre-orders. " />
