Thursday, August 7, 2008

Deutsche Telecom Considers Digital Newspapers

Pilot in fall to give e-readers to thousands of customers
The News4Me project aims to create an individual electronic newspaper. Subscriptions are possible to complete issues or to individual sections from differing newspapers, which will then be transmitted to mobile devices. The contents and the layout adapt constantly to the way that you read. The e-reader is still subject to speculation. However researchers have spoken about a screen almost as large a newspaper page, flexible and not an LCD screen with backlit facilities. The researchers referred to the product of the Dutch company Polymer Vision, the Readius, with a rollable screen. They would also like to equip the e-reader with broadcast facilities, by which I think they mean video and audio. Deutsche Telecom is picking up experience from its US sister network Verizon which is working together with Amazon’s e-reader Kindle,
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Deutsche Telecom's blurb on its website
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Read the News4Me pdf presentation here
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