paidContent Quick Hits 1.14.2010

LG Display Flexible Paper

»  Paper of the future? LG (SEO: 066570) Display has created the world’s largest flexible electronic-paper screen, about the size of a 19″ screen. [Aving]

»  Cheaper Windows PCs outsell Macs despite Apple’s 31 percent sales increase. [Infoworld]

»  NewTeeVee names the five dumbest RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) moves. [NewTeeVee]

»  Only two in five adults say they read a daily newspaper, either online or in print. [Harris Polls]

»  Looking for ways to cut costs and improve itself, Obama administration is taking tech ideas from top execs including Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, Sprint (NYSE: S) CEO Dan Hesse and Rob Glaser, who yesterday stepped down from his post as CEO of RealNetworks. [Post Tech]

»  Following complaints that Amazon’s Kindle doesn’t accommodate blind people’s needs, three U.S. universities will stop promoting use of the e-reader. [Computerworld]

»  A win for The Newspaper Guild: An arbitrator ruled that employees under the guild should not be forced to work for Time Inc.’s websites, and those that do work for the sites will see an adjusted workload. [Mediaweek]

»  Wired compiles the top 150 media Twitterers, including: Stephen Colbert, Paul McCartney, Stephen Hawking and Mindy Kaling (who, by the way is much funnier in The Office than on Twitter). Broad definition of media. [Wired]

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