8 posts and columns on plastic

White MacBook, It Was Good Living With You

in News on February 10 at 10:16 am PT

The white MacBook is (now really, truly) dead.
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Plastic Logic Gets Some Love From Russia

in News on November 9, 2010 at 7:50 am PT

Plastic Logic, still working on a consumer e-reader after an abortive first attempt, today announced that a “significant investment” by RUSNANO (Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies) will help it build a new volume fabrication plant in Russia for its next-generation plastic electronic displays. “Russia provides access to an enormous talent pool of scientists and engineers, and proximity to our European centers in Cambridge and Dresden,” said Plastic Logic CFO Rik Thorbecke.

You Still Can’t Buy Plastic Logic’s Que E-Reader. Want to Buy Plastic Logic? [UPDATED]

in Media on April 6, 2010 at 4:43 am PT

Want to buy an e-reader from Plastic Logic? You will have to wait until “sometime this summer.” Want to buy the whole company? That’s a different story.

Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect

in Social on December 3, 2009 at 10:30 am PT

Motorola Multitouch Investment Could Herald Buttonless Smartphone

in News on December 3, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Interesting investment news from Motorola today. The company’s investment arm, Motorola Ventures, has put some money into Sensitive Object, a French start-up that has developed haptic technology that can transform most any surface into a multitouch interface.
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Apple Polishes Popular MacBook for a Higher Price

in Personal Technology on October 22, 2008 at 6:02 pm PT

Apple’s MacBook laptop, the company’s low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn’t just any old product. It’s the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the U.S. overall. And, according to the sales-research organization NPD Group, the midrange model of the MacBook has been the single best-selling laptop of any brand in U.S. retail stores for the past five months.
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E-Read It and Weep, Amazon

in News on September 8, 2008 at 10:28 am PT

Founded nearly a decade ago on patents for printing active-matrix electronic display panels on thin, flexible plastic substrates, Plastic Logic spent the ensuing years developing a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look–but not the feel–of a magazine or newspaper. And this morning, the company uncrated it.