Hearst and Sprint team up for Skiff launch
Section: Computers , Netbooks , Gadgets / Other , ebooks , Lifestyle Publishing giant Hearst is set to enter the e-reader market in 2010 and will team up with Sprint to offer an e-reading service platform for mobile devices, smartphones and netbooks. The platform, called Skiff, will provide magazine and newspaper content with “high resolution graphics, rich typography and dynamic updates.”? Sprint will offer Skiff powered products at its stores and Hearst said it has also teamed up with several top consumer electronic manufacturers and with chip maker Marvell. “Skiff signifies a new era in live content distribution-anywhere, anytime, even any size delivery of high quality text, images and graphics, all tailored to the always on demands of today’s consumers,” said Weili Dai, Marvell’s co-founder. Skiff’s management team includes former executives from Sony, AT&T, Apple, Palm, Intel and Microsoft. No release date has been set for the devices. A Kindle killer? Probably not.
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Hearst and Sprint team up for Skiff launch
