8 posts and columns on Popular Science

Maybe Apple’s Newsstand Really Was a Present for Publishers

in Media on December 23, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Real numbers from Popular Science show what dedicated space in iTunes can mean for a digital magazine.
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For the iPad, Apps With Their Own Wow Factor

in The Mossberg Solution on April 6, 2010 at 4:01 pm PT

The iPad is spawning a new type of tablet-specific app designed to make the most of the large touch screen.
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Some Publishers Are Wary of Sales on iTunes

in News on April 5, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Newspaper and magazine companies rushed to prep their titles for the debut of Apple Inc.’s iPad last weekend. But while publishers hail how the tablet computer lets them showcase their wares, some are working to develop ways to sell their publications separately from Apple’s iTunes.

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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Yet Another (Very Attractive) E-Magazine Fantasy

in Media on December 17, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

No one has actually spotted one of the much anticipated tablet devices in the wild. But that doesn’t stop publishers from dreaming about what they can do with them once they appear. Here’s the latest, and perhaps most attractive, one–from Sweden’s Bonnier Group. It seems to be purely conceptual at this point, but it’s fun to look at.
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The iPhone, It's … Beautiful … AGH!

in News on June 27, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

I'm Just Biding My Time Here Until I Can Quit and Study Whale Feces Full Time

in News on June 27, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Given the chance, how would you alter the course of your career? Well, if you worked at Microsoft’s Security Response Center, you might consider taking a job as an Olympic drug tester, a gravity research subject, or a “whale-feces researcher”–vocations that all rank as improvements over a position at MSRC on Popular Science magazine’s 2007 [...]