The Daily. An iPad-exclusive “newspaper” is due for launch at 12PM EST on the App Store, and is priced at 14 cents a day, or $1 per week, with the first 2 weeks priced at free. What you’ll be getting is 360 degree photos, heavy multimedia content, the promise of 100 pages of content being available everyday, professional voice-over audio for certain articles, and finally knowing that Rupert Murdoch is the founder of your news app. Also interesting is that due to the launch of the app, the Apple Store has the option for in-app subscriptions.
As a writer, personally I don’t find the The Daily something out-of-this world, but it may just be worth the free trial, and perhaps the title of your “modern newspaper,” if there is any worthy content that could otherwise be accessed through the iPad’s browser, without paying more for it. Via: The Daily
Happy New Years Eve! And to start off, some bad news. Clearwire’s chairman, Craig McCaw, is leaving the company today. What does this mean? Clearwire is responsible for setting up Sprint 4G towers and service around the country and maintaining it, thus leaving Sprint in a possibly weak position for its 4G network that isn’t even nationwide yet. Besides cutting 15% of its own workforce and projecting it might go broke by mid-2011, things aren’t looking so good for that 4G smartphone of yours, unless Sprint kicks into high gear. Via: 
Today is a new moment in history. Government secrets from around the world, both classified as “top secret”, “secret”, and levels below the aforementioned have been released to the public via several of the world’s most prominent publications, for all eyes to read, know, and understand. This being a tech blog, the first thing that is of interest is the China Politburo incident involving the hacking of Google and several other multi-billion dollar mega corporations within the last year.
