Flipboard sees magazine future in tablet computers

Flipboard chief executive Mike McCue on Monday said the startup's iPad application has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times as tablet computers enable personalized Internet-Age magazines.

"The tablet, and principally the iPad, is creating a totally new kind of consumption experience," McCue said during an on-stage chat at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.

"All these things people have dreamed about are finally happening," he continued. "Technology is finally at a point were it is possible to hold what feels like a magazine in your hand and thumb through it." FULL ARTICLE: PHYSORG