• The Wall Street Journal, Friday, October 8, 2010 1:36 PM

Likely in an effort to loosen Apple's stranglehold on the tablet market, some top news organizations are throwing their considerable weight behind a new Samsung-made, Google-powered tablet. None other than The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Gannett Co.'s USA Today plan to offer software applications for Samsung's Galaxy Tab, which is, er, slated to hit shelves later this year. "The device ... is one of the most highly anticipated tablet launches since the iPad in part because it is built on Google's Android operating system," reports The Wall Street Journal.

Meanwhile, Some news organizations have complained that periodicals are a low priority for Apple," the paper adds. Case in point, Apple's iPad tablet lacks a dedicated hub for selling newspapers and magazines. What's more, as The Journal notes, newspapers and magazines cannot easily sell subscriptions on the iPad. There's also Apple's notoriously controlling nature when it comes to partnerships -- something The Journal story fails to mention.

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