Photo Credit: Tim Carmody. Tech companies can sometimes be touchy about letting journalists get their hands on brand-new devices. At today's Barnes & Noble event, representatives demoed working Nook Tablets for the press, but we weren't allowed to actually handle them ourselves. It's a common precaution. Amazon did the same thing at its Kindle Fire launch event.
It's partly about protecting scarce pre-release devices, and partly about protecting the information on them - corporate-level usernames are handy in the wrong hands.
Gadget Lab, Nook Tablet: ‘Hands Off' First Impressions
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