Personal computing

The experience of holding a tablet or eReader is so different from using a computer that it’s changing our attitudes toward paying for digital media.

The public is anticipating the invention of the Apple Tablet, an all-in-one multimedia device. To find out why the tablet has techies revved up, The Takeaway speaks to Sam Grobart of The New York Times and Queena Kim of KPCC Public Radio in Los Angeles.

Somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop is a nifty gadget called a netbook. Joining The Takeaway to talk about why the netbook is so popular and where it fits in among all the other gadgets is Matt Buchanan, contributing editor for Gizmodo.com.

Cyrus Farivar reports for The World on a San Francisco start-up that’s taking an innovative approach to bringing computers and Internet access to the developing world.