Showing posts with label Skiff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skiff. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

News Corporation Buys Skiff

News Corporation has acquired Skiff, Hearst Corporation’s e-reading platform, designed to deliver premium journalism to tablets, smartphones, e- readers and netbooks. The Skiff platform is designed to deliver visually appealing layouts for newspaper and magazine content.

News Corp. also announced an investment in Journalism Online, the venture dedicated to enabling newspapers, magazines and online-only publishers of quality content to collect revenue from their online readers.

News Corp. apparently believes it will benefit from owning the Skiff e-reader platform, though it doesn't appear to be enamored with the Skiff hardware. News Corp. is purchasing the Skiff software platform, but the device will remain with Hearst.

The purchase, along with an investment in news paywall provider Journalism Online, appears to be part of the larger News Corp. effort to put online content behind pay walls.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Sprint and Skiff to Sell E-Reader


Though firm pricing and availability are not yet announced, Sprint will be providing the connectivity services for the new Skiff e-reader, to be sold sometime this year.

The Skiff Reader e-reader uses a metal foil display service, not glass.

Sprint and Skiff will also launch a Skiff Store, where users will be able to find more digital content.

Touted as the “first e-reader optimized for newspaper and magazine content”, as well as the first to use LG Display’s “metal foil” e-paper technology, the Skiff Reader will use Sprint’s 3G network and also can use a Wi-Fi connection.

The Skiff Reader also features Wi-Fi, a 11.5 inch, 1200 x 1600 pixels touchscreen display, built-in speaker, 3.5mm headset jack, and USB 2.0.

Books, magazines, newspapers, personal and work documents, and other types of digital content can be stored on the Skiff Reader thanks to its 4GB internal memory (expandable with a MicroSD card).

The Skiff Reader, the initial dedicated device to integrate the upcoming Skiff e-reading service, is about  a quarter-inch in overall height and clearly is the thinnest e-reader yet produced by any supplier.

The device uses a full touch-screen and weighs just over one pound.

The Skiff Reader's flexibility is based on its construction from a thin, flexible sheet of stainless-steel foil, not glass.

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