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Roger Fidler's 1994 video shows him speaking about tablet technology long before Apple unveiled the iPad.

Tablet video showing Roger Fidler in 1994 could be the key in Apple's infringement case against Samsung.

A 1994 video of Roger Fidler with an iPad like device is casting doubt on whether Apple can copyright the design of the iPad.

In the mid-nineties, when laptops amazed gadget lovers, one man predicted the next big thing: a touchable screen meant to deliver information on regular basis and designed to replace the newspaper.

Roger Fidler's 1994 tablet video shows an iPad-like device. Did he create what Apple would later call the iPad? He thinks so.

The idea for an iPad like tablet can be traced back to a 1994 project with Roger Fidler. Did Apple steal his idea?

The story of people staking their claim of invention over a hot topic is not new, and many would write Roger Fidler's theories off as sour grapes.
But, because his team taped a promotional video about his dreams of making a tablet in 1994, the veracity of Apple's original idea is coming into question.

In 1994 Roger Fidler predicted tablets would exist in the future. After the announcement of the iPad and the resurfacing of Fidler's Knight Ridder video, Fidler and his colleagues are wondering about what might have been.

A 1994 video shows an iPad-like device long before Apple debuted its latest gem raising questions on whether the touchscreen tablet was Apple's ideas, or someone else's first.

As the communications director at Reynolds Journalism Institute, Steffens spoke at the Mid-America Press Institute gathering in St. Louis Feb. 11 about the state of the news industry, where it might be going and how it might get there.

Roger Fidler says merely reprinting the print copy of the newspaper into a tablet does not acknowledge the full potential tablet versions can have.