Posts Tagged ‘Google’

BusinessWeek Columnist Jon Fine Predicts that Time Inc. Will Sell its IPC stable of British Magazines

November 30th, 2007

His other 2008 media predictions include: “daily” newsspapers doing away with slim, Saturday issues, additional music acts following Raidiohead’s lead and offering “pay-what-you-want” album downloads, and Wall Street Journal staffers conceding that News Corp. ownership hasn’t destroyed their paper.  His last prediction devolves into a fantasy in which he pines for the U.S. Congress to pass [...]

Can Amazon’s Kindle E-reader Carve a Niche Between the iPhone and Cheap Laptops?

November 20th, 2007

The Kindle offers some advantages — including 30 hours of use on a single charge — but a subscription service that requires users to pay for newspapers and magazines they are accustomed to reading for free on their computers right now may be a tough sell.  What’s more, if the leaders in devices and content (Apple [...]