Amazon purchases touch-screen startup; on e-ink, LCD, and eyestrain

One fairly big news item to hit today involves Amazon’s purchase of Touchco, a 6-person startup company with a new multitouch-capable, completely transparent touch-screen overlay technology.
A number of the blogs and news sources linking this story remark on how this technology is capable of use with the current multi-color LCD technology that drives the […]

McGraw-Hill CEO: Apple tablet iPhone OS-powered, will have 95% of McGraw-Hill e-textbooks available

Per MacRumors, the CEO of McGraw-Hill has let a few interesting factoids slip about the new Apple tablet, starting at about 2:50 in the video below the jump. Here is the transcript:
Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow (Wednesday) on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the […]