The Tablet Computer Round Up
Apple’s iPad controlled 95 percent of the tablet computer market for the third quarter of this year according to a recently released report. This market is growing having increased from 3.5 million tablets during the same quarter last year to 4.4 million this year. Companies like HP, Samsung, Viewsonic, and RIM have announced their own [...]
Read MoreHP Slate 500 Will Cost $800 and Wants No Parts of iPad Market
We finally have a price on the much-anticipated HP Slate. It will run you $799 and is being positioned for business and enterprise. For your $800 hard earned cash, you get the device in addition to the dock and the case. While the first videos released by HP may have made it seem like it [...]
Read MoreTrend with Truth: The Brown Twitter Bird Movement
Will the genius at Slate who created the brown Twitter bird, identify yourself? I side-eyed Farhad Manjoo’s post about how black people use Twitter like I side-eyed the scores of non-black folks who’ve asked me if they can touch my hair or if certain mythologies are true about African Americans or why all the black [...]
Read MoreMissing the Point: The Real Story of Black People on Twitter
Online news sites are increasingly covering the phenomena of black people on Twitter. For example, just last month Gizmodo published an article about stalking sexy black women on Twitter (prompting this response from Black Web 2.0). Two days ago Slate published an article by Farhad Manjoo titled “How Black People Use Twitter.” If online sites [...]
Read MoreWashington Post Purchases iCurrent and Goes on an Online Offensive
A small piece of news passed by the newswire last week, overshadowed by an Apple press conference, a big DECISION, and a positive occurrence in the BP oil spill. The purchase of iCurrent by the Washington Post Company (which owns the Washington Post, Cable One, Newsweek, Kaplan, Slate, express and the Root) is just another step in their efforts to create a strong presence online, specifically in the news and political genres. Check out the details inside.
Read MoretheRoot Keeps Operations Trim While Bubble Bursts
While evidence of consolidation in business can be seen just about everywhere, sites that cater to a niche are no different. We’ve seen the effects in the closings of larger operations like RushmoreDrive.com and even in the closing of operations that just plum ran out of cash like Vibe Magazine. Larger sites like the aforementioned [...]
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