{"id":189,"date":"2012-07-05T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:24:42","slug":"google-joins-the-tablet-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/google-joins-the-tablet-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Google joins the tablet race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/race.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-195\" title=\"Racing\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/race-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>Shortly after Microsoft announced its plans for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/2012\/06\/29\/microsoft-launches-new-tablet-to-compete-with-apples-ipad\/\">Surface<\/a>, Google also unveiled its new 7-inch <a href=\"http:\/\/forwardthinking.pcmag.com\/none\/299801-google-nexus-7-first-impressions\">Nexus<\/a> tablet at its annual developers\u2019 conference last week.\u00a0 Nexus will initially be sold on the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store?hl=en\">Google Play<\/a> online store for $199.00 USD.\u00a0 Unlike its main competition, Amazon\u2019s Kindle Fire, the Nexus has a front-facing camera and a 1280 x 800 resolution screen.<\/p>\n<p>Related to the Kindle Fire, I want to remind you that you can borrow <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-a&amp;find_code=WRD&amp;request=e-readers\">e-readers<\/a> for 2 weeks at the library.<\/p>\n<p>Let the tablet wars begin!<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/images\/\">Microsoft Office Clipart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Microsoft announced its plans for Surface, Google also unveiled its new 7-inch Nexus tablet at its annual developers\u2019 conference last week.\u00a0 Nexus will initially be sold on the Google Play online store for $199.00 USD.\u00a0 Unlike its main &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/google-joins-the-tablet-race\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,4],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gadgets","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}