> The print magazine business was one of the early industries to say the Internet was a fad. They continue to be in denial despite the fact that the big ad agencies are shifting more and more of their budgets online. > > The iPad does exactly what the print magazine publishers need it to. It puts their old-fashioned, irrelevant about to be completely disintermediated companies back in the game. Only from the looks of it, the people running the print media business are just plainly too stupid to realize it. via [padpundit.…

> While AT&T asserts that its high-end 2GB cap will only impact the heaviest users, the fact is that today’s heavy user is tomorrow’s average user,” Free Press policy counsel M. Chris Riley said in a statement. “Internet overcharging schemes like the one AT&T proposes will discourage innovative new uses and stifle healthy growth in the mobile broadband economy. It is price gouging for AT&T to charge the low-end users $15 per 200MB, and to charge $20 for tethering capability even if no additional capacity is…

> Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs shared a secret with his audience at a technology conference outside Los Angeles Tuesday: The idea for the iPad came before the iPhone. via [sfgate.com](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/01/financial/f210540D69.DTL&feed=rss.news)Those of us who follow Apple as closely as I do wouldn’t consider this a secret. It’s fairly obvious, once you start using the iPad, that much of the iPhone OS was designed with the bigger form factor…

> In the past, Google has provided fairly good support for accessibility with screen readers, but that reputation has begun to slip in recent years, as the Internet giant has expanded its offerings and let its accessibility efforts slip. > > The fact that the rendering engine Google is using offers native support for OS X accessibility, and Google either broke, disabled, or chose to remove that support, does not bode well for the future of accessibility in other Google products, where ensuring access will be inherently more difficult. via [lioncourt.com](http:…

> Bad news is traditionally reserved for Friday—late Friday afternoon being most promising. And last Friday, AT&T dropped a bit of bad news in an “open letter to our valued customers”: get ready to pay $325 in early termination fees (ETFs) if you want a new iPhone. via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/digging-into-atts-new-325-early-termination-fee.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)A few things to say about this development, late as I may be to chime in: First: LAME. AT&T…