Bits: Apple, Acer, and...Arrington?

Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality. The San Francisco Business Times reported Friday that Mr. Arrington has incorporated a separate company in Singapore called CrunchPad. Later on Friday, he told us he would hold an event at the end of July or the beginning of August to make a big announcement about the CrunchPad, and the tablet would be for sale “as soon as possible.” Mr. Arrington is a former corporate lawyer who became a blogger — not exactly the résumé of a hardware developer. “I just wanted this, and no one will build it,” he said. The purpose of the CrunchPad will be very simple: surfing the Web. Turn it on and up comes a browser. It is nothing... [read full story]                    

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