Cheryl Goodman's blog

I’m back to answer the questions about mirasol® displays that keep you up at night. Tuesday we addressed questions about how “front-light” technology enables users to view mirasol displays in conditions with little or no light. Now it’s time to get in “touch” with mirasol’s sensitive side.

There are a few questions we’re asked again and again about our technology. We hear these questions from folks visiting our website, at tradeshows (like SID, which we’ll talk about in a bit) and from you, our faithful readers. Over the next couple days, I’ll be offering some answers to a couple of these astute and very frequent lines of questioning.

Lately, the e-reader industry has been attacked on all sides, by both pundits and new products — set to render these single-function devices obsolete.

The concept of “omnimedia” is becoming increasingly relevant with the convergence of personal computing and mobile technology. I blame this trend, primarily, for my recent bicoastal lifestyle (bi-coastal, that is, not bi-polar). I didn’t expect, however, to encounter the living, breathing manifestation of this concept — but that’s exactly what happened.

A few days ago, I attended and spoke at the “Dimensional to Digital: Managing from Augmented Reality to Tablets” meeting, organized by the Magazine Publishers of America. At the event, John Squires (former Time, Inc. executive) announced that he was ceding his current role as interim managing director of Next Issue Media to Morgan Guenther (former president of TiVo), who was named permanent CEO.