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Plastic Logic (Finally) Shows Off The Que, Its (Very Expensive) Kindle Competitor

in Media on January 7, 2010 at 8:27 am PT

After promising to deliver its take on Amazon’s Kindle for a couple of years, Plastic Logic is finally delivering: Here comes the Que, which the company promises is “more than an eReader.” It had better be: The first two versions of the gadget will cost $649 and $799.
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One More Newspaper Gives Up the Ghost: Spanish Language Hoy New York Goes Web-Only

in Media on December 30, 2008 at 3:39 pm PT

Here’s another newspaper that’s giving up on newsprint and going all-digital: Hoy New York, a free Spanish-language daily, published its last print edition today. The move will cost 16 employees their jobs says John Paton, CEO of Impremedia, the publisher that owns Hoy and several other Spanish-language titles, including El Diario La Prensa in New York and La Opinion in Los Angeles.