A recent survey of 1,500 consumers indicates sales of tablets such as the iPad could more than double in 2011. Of those who completed the survey, 10% currently own a tablet and 17% plan to buy a tablet this year.
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By Rick Sutcliffe
For the last two months the Spy has digressed from the reader’s usual fare to cover two endemic ethical issues — to wit, the misconduct of the spammer, and that of the rogue board member. For March, there are many interesting technology news items to consider. To complete the title, the Spy may borrow a rumour or two, and will certainly consider things Blue (-Ray, that is.)
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OSXpert Limited has announced WebConnector 1.0 (http://www.daylite.biz/plugins/webconnector/) for Daylite. It embeds a context-sensitive web browser into the Daylite contact manager, CRM and business productivity tool.
It’s now possible to perform context-sensitive web researches within Daylite, monitor individual websites, blogs and social media profiles of contacts, like on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and check current communication details of contacts on the web to keep the Daylite database current.
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According to the SEC Form 8-K filed on Thursday — as reported by “Fortune” (http://macte.ch/DKoGo), Apple CEO Steve Jobs was re-elected to the company’s board of directors with nearly 3.5 million fewer votes than Ronald D. Sugar.
Sugar is the the former CEO of Northrop Grumman (NOC) who was selected in November to fill one of the seats on Apple’s board left vacant by the death of Jerry York last March and the forced departure of Google’s (GOOG) Eric Schmidt in 2009.
Read MoreAdobe says the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite will support both Apple App Store subscriptions and Google One Pass for magazine and newspaper publishers. It’s currently available as pre-release technology.
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