Student awarded trip to Japan: Jarondakie Patrick, a native of Baton Rouge who is a junior at Howard University, is one of nine winners of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. The award honors college journalism students who produce high-quality work and are interested in international affairs. Patrick won a nine-day trip to Japan. She is a print journalism major at Howard, where she works at the student newspaper and campus radio station. She will be an intern this summer at the McClatchy Washington Bureau.
Allows device to come closer to iPad: Barnes & Noble is adding an applications store and an e-mail program to its Nook e-reader. That brings the $249 device closer to working like a tablet computer in the vein of the iPad. The Nook has a color touchscreen, giving it capabilities beyond those of Amazon.com’s competing Kindle, which has a gray-scale screen that isn’t touch sensitive. The Nook runs Google Inc.’s Android software, which is used on phones and tablets, but doesn’t run standard Android applications. Instead, Barnes & Noble is encouraging developers to submit specially written applications to its Nook Apps store. Among the more than 125 applications available today are popular ones such as the game Angry Birds and cooking recipe vault Epicurious. Barnes & Noble is also adding the ability to play Flash content on the Nook’s web browser.
