Apple ticked at gossip sites that leak information
Apple is ticked off that online sites are spreading product information before the embargo is lifted. So much that the company is presenting its case to a California court in San Jose today. One of the questions to be settled will be whether bloggers and gossip site writers are the same as print journalists and should have the same rights, or not. Good question, actually.
At Pen Computing, we've been signing NDAs and have been scrupulously observing embargos ever since we started. That means that the 'news' in the Pen print version was often months old when it reached readers. Unless, of course, a company informed us of the new products way ahead of time. Over time, many companies stopped giving advance notice entirely, and we learn of a new product exactly when it is officially introduced. So punishing the gossip sites affects us as print magazine journalists. However, the line between print and online is no longer clear. These days we're spending as much time on the Pen website as on the print edition, and our new RuggedPCReview.com site is all online. -- Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 by chb"
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