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Attention Publishers: Here’s a Fantasy Tablet for Your Fantasy Tablet Magazines

Peter Kafka in Media on December 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm PT

Since we’ve spent the past few months dreaming about what a magazine might look like on a tablet from the future, why not do a little dreaming about the tablet itself? Sound good? Then take a gander at the XO-3, a superlight, supercheap tablet that the people from One Laptop Per Child think they’d like to have available in 2012.

How to Add Color to a Kindle: Pixel Qi’s Cheap Screens

Peter Kafka in Media on June 23, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Amazon’s Kindle gets many plaudits, but it also gets one consistent criticism: Why can’t it come with a color screen? It can, say the folks at Pixel Qi, a start-up based in Silicon Valley and Taiwan: It could use the cheap, lightweight color screens that we’re going to make.

Could iRex Be the Company Making News Corp.’s Kindle? Mmmmmaybe.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 15, 2009 at 9:24 am PT

The Dutch firm already makes a line of e-book readers and says it will have an innovative color screen ready next year. And its CEO confirms it has talked to News Corp. But there’s no deal yet.