Remember, Bill Keller, Executive Editor for the New York Times, let slip (At 8:33 in the following clip) that: “I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate…” http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7166514&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Techcrunch does some more investigation on ‘iSlate’ domains and finds out that Apple likely registered these all over Europe in 2006. It would seem that Slate or iSlate would be the frontrunner in choices for the new Apple tablet at this point, though lots of things could have changed between now and 2007. Interestingly, this was about the time that Apple unveilled the iPhone. Update: a commenter Luis Alejandro Masanti remarks correctly that the timing of these registrations coincides with Apple’s legal wranglings with Cisco over the ‘iPhone’ trademark and could have been a fallback name for the iPhone as well.
