Archive for the 'iPad News' Category

Apple iPad Hits Nine More Countries Friday

Apple on Monday said that its iPad will be available in nine more countries on Friday, July 23. Launched on April 3 in the U.S., the iPad was subsequently introduced in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on May 28. On Friday, customers in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, [...]

Multitasking Browser for iPad

Multitasking Browser offers iPad users the ability to track a Twitter feed, update their Facebook status, or keep tabs on the weather all while browsing other Web sites on an iPad. The app from InnovPixels works reasonably well, although it has limitations, when compared to the mobile version of Safari that make it an unlikely [...]

Apple defensiveness over iPhone 4 won’t cut it

In the wake of Consumer Reports’ decision to un-recommend the iPhone 4, Apple’s summoned select members of the mainstream and tech press to its headquarters for a 10 a.m. news conference Friday. Although the company hasn’t specifically said the discussion will center around the “Death Grip” antenna controversy, you can bet that’s where it will [...]

Rumor Has It: Smaller screens and smaller prices coming to Apple’s iPad

Fancy adding the iPad to your daily grind but feel the 9.7-inch touch-screen device is a little big for your purse, shoulder bag or coat’s inside pocket? Well, if current rumours are to be believed, two smaller iterations of Apple’s popular tablet are on the way. Citing “sources from component makers,” technology website DigiTimes reports [...]

RIM plans BlackBerry tablet to rival Apple’s iPad

Rumours of RIM’s BlackBerry tablet, to potentially rival Apple’s iPad, are back in the news following fresh reports sparked by an investors note revealed by CNET. A research note from Ashok Kumar, an analyst and managing director at Rodman & Renshaw, claims RIM’s new tablet will come with a smaller 7-inch screen, in contrast to [...]

Wal-Mart Stores To Have iPad By December

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. could start selling Apple Inc.’s iPad this year in some U.S. stores as it attempts to compete with electronics chains. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. recognizes that its customers are tech-savvy and want to integrate their e-mail, movies, games and music into on functional device. If you’re contemplating investing in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shares, [...]

iPad sales in 2011: A big number, anyway

Apple’s iPad sold 3 million units in its first 80 days at market, setting a pace likely to put it ahead of the iPhone and all Netbooks for first full-quarter sales. So what sort of run-rate can we expect for the device in 2011? That’s difficult to say, given the limited sales data available. But [...]

Download Unlimited eBooks for your iPad

Looking for downloads for your new Apple iPad? Well, you’re not the only person. The Apple iPad is one of the hottest gadgets out at the moment and has the ability to display eBooks and more in wonderful high-definition quality. Unfortunately, it can be very costly to fill it up with multimedia, and with each [...]

Free movies on your iPad from the National Film Board

Do you like indie films? Documentaries? Animation? Then I’m about to make your day: NFB Films for iPad lets you watch over a thousand movies on your tablet. For free. “NFB” stands for National Film Board, a bona fide Canadian treasure. The app taps the NFB’s mammoth library of documentaries, features, animated films, trailers (for [...]

iPad Invades Corporate America; The iPad in Business

iPad News: Despite all claims by PC purists that the iPad is a toy that has no real purpose–especially in the corporate world, there are large enterprises embracing the tablet device. It may be designed as a portable media consumption device for consumers, but the iPad also provides a unique mobile computing platform for business [...]