{"id":34828,"date":"2011-09-27T22:28:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34828"},"modified":"2011-09-28T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T07:45:08","slug":"amazon-tablet-pc-expected-to-launch-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/34828-amazon-tablet-pc-expected-to-launch-tomorrow.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon tablet PC expected to launch tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/356046-Amazon\">Amazon<\/a> is expected to unveil a tablet computer Wednesday, picking a fight with <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> and its iPad. The iPad has many challengers, but analysts say Amazon&#8217;s could be different. It has a chance to be more than a wannabe, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is nearly unique in its ability to sell content such as e-books, movies and music suited for a tablet, just like Apple does.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the &#8220;Kindle&#8221; tablet could serve as a reminder, right in the owner&#8217;s hands, to buy general merchandise from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based Amazon hasn&#8217;t confirmed that it&#8217;s launching a tablet, but it&#8217;s holding an event in New York on Wednesday morning, with its CEO <a title=\"Jeff Bezos\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361770-Jeff-Bezos\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is expected to unveil a tablet computer Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":31072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,723,605,39,851],"class_list":["post-34828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-amazon","tag-apple","tag-ipad","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34830,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828\/revisions\/34830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}