About: 3IS4
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Jordan Kay is an Emerging Media Strategist, a media consultant and a proud husband and father.
Jordan currently consults for marketing agencies, and is active in the non-profit sector as well.
Contact: jordankay@me.com
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. How the 'paperless paper' works I love reading newspapers. Really I do. But whenever I read one on the train to work or on the bus, I always seem to end up sparking complete chaos. Either the passenger sitting next to me gets it in the face with my elbow, or half the pages of my daily collapse onto the floor into an embarrassing heap which, in rush hour, is rather difficult to clear up. But soon my problems with paper could be over. At Plastic Logic's factory in Dresden, British engineer Dean Baker shows me a new kind of newspaper. What's new about it? Well, for a start there's no paper - it's electronic. The device looks just like a table mat, it's as light as a magazine. But onto it you can download hundreds of newspapers and - at the touch of a button - browse through them quite safely, without elbowing anyone ever again. "It's very robust," says Mr Baker. To prove it he whacks the screen with his fist. Not a scratch. That's why the electronic newspaper is so light, flexible and revolutionary. Mr Baker believes the device will help consign ordinary paper to the rubbish bin of history. "There's a huge amount of waste," says Mr Baker. "We have paper being distributed all over the country which is consumed on that day and then discarded into the bin. This doesn't need to be the case. "All of that content could be transmitted electronically and stored on a single e-reader, with the same visual appeal as paper. " British origins The plastic microchips are produced in a top security "clean room" in Dresden. The Plastic Logic factory, which opened last month, is the world's first ever commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing plant. It may be in Germany, but the company itself was born in Britain. It was at Cambridge University that scientists pioneered the whole idea of replacing silicon chips with plastic ones. A few miles down the road from the electronic newspaper factory is something a little more traditional - Dresden's printing press. Here paper is king. The giant presses rattle and whir. They get through 60 tonnes of paper a day here, churning out 15 copies of the local paper every second. You might think that in this old fashioned kind of place an electronic paper would be considered a dangerous competitor. Paper cuts it But printing manager Ralf Oberthuer believes that - even if paper isn't perfect - it's still far more user-friendly than an electronic upstart. "The advantage is the feeling of a newspaper," Ralf says. "And you can take it everywhere you are going - to breakfast, to the bathroom, to the toilet. Or if you go to work with you in the train, no problem. "And if you lose it, it's also no problem - 50 cents. But if you lose an electronic newspaper it will be expensive for you." The electronic newspaper will only hit the high street next year. So, for now, I'll have to continue to wreak havoc on the way to work with all that paper. But, as Mr Oberthuer made clear, it's not all bad news with newspapers. And, sitting on a commuter train, I suddenly realise there's another good thing you can do with an ordinary newspaper that you couldn't do with a flashy electronic one. Leave it behind for someone else to read.The revolution of paperless paperBy Steven Rosenberg
BBC News, DresdenWe have paper being distributed all over the country which is consumed on that day and then discarded into the bin. This doesn't need to be the case.
Dean Baker
The machine's so tough, because everything, from the screen to the electronics inside, is made of plastic.Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/7670371.stm
Published: 2008/10/15 00:40:26 GMT
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Google rolls out rival to iPhone
Reuters
Google rolls out rival to iPhone
09.23.08, 6:11 PM ET
UNITED STATES - (Adds HTC comment, T-Mobile comment, recasts throughout)
By Sinead Carew and Yinka Adegoke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile has rolled out Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )'s answer to the iPhone as the Web search giant makes its biggest stab yet at leaping from consumers' computers into their pockets with a device cheaper than rival Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) offers.
The widely-anticipated G1 phone, introduced Tuesday made by HTC Corp, has a touch-sensitive screen, a computer-like keyboard, Wi-Fi connections and uses Google's new Android operating system.
Available in three colors -- black, white and brown -- it includes familiar Google services, such as Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. Like the iPhone and other "smartphones" the device is meant to broaden the appeal of Web surfing on the go.
"If we see more mobile Web usage we'll be happy," Google co-founder Sergey Brin told Reuters after arriving at the launch on roller-blades.
His company, a powerhouse in Web advertising, would benefit if Android led more cell users to spend time on the Web, no matter which phone they are using.
Google is well ahead of rivals Yahoo Inc (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) and Microsoft Corp (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in Web search on computers, but it wants to use Android to ensure this dominance carries over to the phone when mobile Web surfing becomes more popular.
But while no clear mobile Web winner has emerged so far, Google faces stiff competition from longer established phone players such as Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), Research In Motion Ltd (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people )'s BlackBerry and Microsoft, as well as Apple.
Analysts saw the device as a "good first step" rather than an iPhone killer, but some expect as many as 400,000 to be sold in the United States by year-end. A T-Mobile executive said the estimate was "not incredible."
When it becomes available to U.S. consumers on Oct. 22, the G1 will sell for about $179 -- slightly cheaper than the entry-level price of $199 for Apple Inc's iPhone -- with a two-year contract.
The G1 will be launched by T-Mobile's UK unit in November and other European countries such as Germany, Netherlands and the Czech Republic in the first quarter of 2009.
"The G1 doesn't threaten Apple now, but Android has raised the bar for competing mobile platforms. The bigger concern here is for Microsoft and Nokia if Google can win over the hearts and minds of operators and developers," said Geoff Blaber, an analyst with British firm CCS Insight.
NEXT GOOGLE PHONE MAY CHANGE
Both Google and Apple are wooing developers to create applications for their devices, but unlike Apple, which keeps a tight grip on the iPhone's hardware and operating software, Google's Android is open to be changed by outside developers.
Asked if the user interface of future Google phones would look anything like the first one, Andy Rubin, who developed Android for Google, said: "Its completely replaceable."
For example, Leslie Grandy, T-Mobile USA's product development vice president sees the carrier selling a range of Google-powered phones in future, including more basic ones without a touch-screen or full keyboards.
The new phone features Android Market, where customers can find and download free applications to expand and personalize their phones. T-Mobile's Grandy said the marketplace would eventually include applications that are sold for a fee.
"Because the platform is open, we think Android is somewhat future proof," Rubin, Google director of mobile platforms, told the audience at the launch.
A similar strategy helped increase the buzz around Apple's second-generation iPhone, which can support more than 3,000 applications available online.
Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people )'s digital music store will be loaded on the G1, allowing users to search, download, buy and play more than six million songs, pitting it against iPhone's music player.
Android also competes with Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, which has been solidly gaining ground. HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou told Reuters his company, which has concentrated on Windows phones so far, is already planning more Android and Windows devices.
Between the United States and the United Kingdom, Chou said he expects to have sold more than 400,000 G1 by the year end.
Android's biggest competitor is Symbian software, which represents 60 percent of the smartphone market and which Nokia plans to buy out and open to other developers.
Nokia, which has about 40 percent of the mobile phone market, has also branched into mobile Web services such as mapping that compete directly with Google. Speaking at a conference in Chicago Tuesday, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said he was not worried by new competition.
"The entry of Apple and Google -- in fact today in a very concrete way -- in mobile communications is the best possible illustration of the fact that there's a lot of possibility here," he said. (Additional reporting by Tarmo Virki in Helsinki and Benjamin Klayman in Chicago; Editing by Derek Caney and Andre Grenon)
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tracklist:
01. Time The Conqueror
02. Off Of Wonderland
03. The Drums Of War
04. The Arms Of Night
05. Where Were You
06. Going Down To Cuba
07. Giving That Heaven Away
08. Live Nude Cabaret
09. Just Say Yeah
10. Far From The Arms Of HungerProduct Description
Browne’s first studio release in six years. Recorded with his longtime band Kevin McCormick, Mark Goldenberg, Mauricio “Fritz” Lewak, and Jeff Young, along with two additional members, Chavonne Morris and Alethea Mills. Look for them on tour this fall.
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