Live Coverage of Apple Event

Apple is holding its media event today and is introducing their much anticipated tablet device. The event kicks off at 10 am Pacific or 1 pm Eastern. Apple does not provide a live video or audio stream to their events, so you can only follow along live with text and photo updates. Apple will post a QuickTime video a few hours after the event.

The tablet device was unveiled and is called iPad. According the overview by Mr. Jobs it’s very thin, with customizable background images. “You can browse the Web with it. It’s the best browsing experience you’ve ever had.”

The iPad works in both landscape and portrait mode, like the iPhone. It has a virtual keyboard, access to photo collections, direct access to iTunes’ surfeit of content.

“It’s awesome to watch TV shows and movies,” Mr. Jobs says. “It’s so much more intimate than a laptop and it’s so much more capable than a smartphone with its gorgeous screen.”

You can read detailed live coverage of the event from following articles:

==> MacRumors.com - Apple Tablet Media Event Today

==> TheNewYorkTimes Technology pages - Live Blogging the iPad Annoucement

Google and China

I found an interesting article at Emerginvest.com on the Google v. China dispute.

I suggest that you read the article and I mention a few interesting points:

Google's chief legal officer Don Drummond complained that, Google's operations in China were hacked with the goal of accessing the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

The conspiracy theorists out there would say that the government was slowing down Google by using their firewall on purpose to aid Baidu's competitive advantage in China since search is all about speed in addition to accuracy.

We know generally that while Google.cn delivers better search results than Baidu, many Chinese continue to use Baidu out of some nationalist pride.

Speculation on my part, but maybe they thought that if they publicly threatened to pull out of China, it would be embarrassing to the Chinese government and the government might cave on the Google.cn issue.

Launch of Amazon Kindle 2.0 Book Reader

It has been dubbed an 'iPod moment' for the electronic book as Amazon launches Kindle 2, the successor to its popular ebook reader.

The Kindle is a paperback-sized gadget, which sells for $359 (£240), lets users download books, newspapers and blogs onto a high-resolution screen with a white background and black text - imitating the look of a real book.

It's successor, the sleek Kindle 2 is as thin as an HB pencil, comes with inbuilt speakers and expanded 2GB memory - so it can hold more than 1,500 books, compared with 200 with the original Kindle.

Amazon has invested in Kindle in the belief that more people will want to read books electronically.

The company has made 230,000 titles available on the Kindle, which can download books wirelessly.

You can find more detils about this news from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4570810/Launch-of-Amazons-Kindle-2-hailed-as-iPod-moment-for-electronic-books.html