Like all print media now-a-days business on the print side is suffering. This includes the juggernaut of all newspapers and print media alike, the New York Times. For the past months, NYTimes.com has been updated with all of the latest stories and up until now, has been open to everyone for no cost. Not surprisingly, that freedom is coming to an end.
NYT is said to be in the works of creating a paywall system. A system supported by a lot of online media to protect their content from unsubscribed users. The Wall Street Journal has had this in place for a while now to pay the bills.
The New York Times’ system is rumored to be a “metered” system which in short, will only affect those who read NYTimes.com regularly. Everyone will have a certain limit on how many articles they may read every month. It’s that simple. If you would like to read more, then you will have to pay up.
I think this is a very fair model to price out their service. If you are a hardcore Times fan than I really don’t think you will have a problem forking out the cash for a subscription. But everyone who uses it every now and again will not be inhibited by a pay-wall up front. We all knew it was coming, I’m just glad I won’t have to stop reading all together.
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Remember the news on the iPhone look-alike, Meizu M8? Well, Meizu has done a pretty good job on the Meizu M8 promotional video. The video itself looks very professional and catchy, it doesn’t look like a low-cost knock-off of the iPhone at all!
The Meizu M8 features a seamless UI you get on an iPhone, and the OS is based on WinCE running on a 667Mhz processor and 256MB ROM. It comes in two versions, an 8GB and a 16GB version. With all the features in place, this phone is very much like a hybrid between Android, iPhone, and Windows Mobile. The phone’s display is a 3.4” 480 by 720 pixels multi touch screen, and it even includes a gravity sensor (probably an accelerometer), ambient light sensor, distance infrared sensor and touch sensor.
Korean laptop manufacturer, Trigem Computing, recently announced the launch of the Averatec series Lookie laptop, boasting a thickness of only 0.5 centimeters! This thin-and-light laptop packs some punch in its tiny chassis, featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a HD 16:9 11.6” LED LCD screen, a HDMI port, a 1.3M pixel webcam, 250GB HDD and 802.11 b/g/n. All these features fit into a thin 0.5 centimeters chassis, weighing at only 1.4 kg (approximately 3 lbs). While specifications look pretty usual for a thin-and-light laptop, it is priced at around $711. Right now, it’s only available in Korea.
Korean laptop manufacturer, Trigem Computing, recently announced the launch of the Averatec series Lookie laptop, boasting a thickness of only 0.5 centimeters! This thin-and-light laptop packs some punch in its tiny chassis, featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a HD 16:9 11.6” LED LCD screen, a HDMI port, a 1.3M pixel webcam, 250GB HDD and 802.11 b/g/n. All these features fit into a thin 0.5 centimeters chassis, weighing at only 1.4 kg (approximately 3 lbs). While specifications look pretty usual for a thin-and-light laptop, it is priced at around $711. Right now, it’s only available in Korea.
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