{"id":5537,"date":"2010-05-12T11:53:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:30:32","slug":"ipad-rival-from-verizongoogle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/12\/ipad-rival-from-verizongoogle\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad rival from Verizon\/Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5539\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/verizon-google-logo1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"verizon-google-logo\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/content\/verizonglobalhome\/ghp_landing.aspx\">Verizon<\/a> and<a href=\"google.com\"> Google<\/a> are teaming to <a title=\"develop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_15065000?source=most_viewed\" target=\"_blank\">develop <\/a>a tablet computer in their combined effort to catch up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a>&#8216;s iPad and host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/\">AT&amp;T<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\/index.shtml\">School of Managemen<\/a>t Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, head of the Information Systems <a href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\/academics\/departments\/is.html\">Department<\/a>, is researching competition in business network and says this is a new form of competition &#8212; not between firms but between pairs or clusters of firms.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe real question is whether it will be a Google-branded tablet like NexusOne or Android-OS running on multiple variations of touchscreen tablets manufactured by many different hardware vendors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon and Google are teaming to develop a tablet computer in their combined effort to catch up with Apple&#8217;s iPad and host AT&amp;T.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, head of the Information Systems Department, is researching competition in business network and says this is a new form of competition &#8212; not between firms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1119,824,418,2848,2387,2847,1530,2793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}