Posts Tagged ‘apple tablet’

Penguin Books Working On Interactive eBooks For iPad

Ebooks currently constitute nearly 4% of all book sales in the US. With the impending launch of iPad, this number is likely to increase multifold over the next few years. However, ebooks in the future may be in richer formats than the current publications if a recently published article on…

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Media Houses Embrace iPad, Working To Bring Publications To Apple’s Tablet

With the iPad expected to launch in less than three weeks from now, media houses have been frenetically working to bring their applications to the iPad users. Considering that a majority of the early bird buyers are likely to be young and technology-savvy, many of these publications are oriented towards…

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Apple iPad Will Go On Sale On March 26?

Folks at the Examiner have dug out some pretty interesting information about the launch of iPad. According to inside sources, which includes an Apple Store manager, the tablet would be out on the shelves by the 26th of this month

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Apple iBooks Vs Kindle iPhone App

When the iPad is released in a few weeks from now, it will be taking on competition from several distinct product categories like netbooks, e-readers and gaming consoles. While Apple has already tasted success with gaming applications on the iPhone OS, the company has its task cut out in other…

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Evidence Of Basic Photo Editing Features Discovered in iPhone OS 3.2 SDK For iPad

By now, you must be well aware that a camera for the iPad is in the works and though Steve Jobs did not make a mention about this when the iPad was unveiled, we are likely to see the feature incorporated in at least the next generation of Apple’s tablet…

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Steve Jobs Blasts Flash In Meeting With WSJ Editors — Report

Steve Jobs unloaded on Flash during a meeting with Wall Street Journal executives last week, according to Gawker. Jobs met with editors of the Journal to show them the new iPad

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Detailed Tour of iPad Touch UI Shows Why It’ll Be More Important Than iPhone

A lot of people are nonplussed by the iPad because it doesn’t seem so new, or even very useful. It’s just a big iPod touch. So what?

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iPad T-Shirts, Undies Ship Before Product

The iPad has already launched a thousand jokes, some of which you can wear some on your chest, or your privates, before you can even buy one in March. See some examples after the jump: DIY design shops cafepress and zazzle have dozens of different tees, some a little more tasteful than others, like this paw for

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Apple Source: Adobe’s Flash Is “Too Buggy” For the iPad

Flash will not be coming to the iPad — not now, not ever — says a source inside Apple who is part of the iPad development team. Instead, Apple will rely on HTML 5 and CSS to play rich media, such as YouTube videos, on the web. “Flash is too buggy and will crash the whole device,”

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Apple Confirms UK iBooks Will Be Available, But Timing To Be Announced At Launch

The iBooks service/feature for iPad is conspicuous in its absence from Apple iPad web pages outside of the USA, and the American site’s rather ominous “iBooks is available only in the U.S.” footnote made people ask whether Apple was going to fumble the ball. PC Pro today got confirmation from an Apple spokesperson about the

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Why I’m Excited About the iPad: A Developer’s Perspective

Guest commentary by David Barnard, owner of App Cubby, publisher of the popular Gas Cubby and Trip Cubby apps. Much has been written about all the iPad surprises, disappointments, features, missing features, hype, expectations, future, etc. adnauseam.

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Video: Funny Mashup of State of Union and iPad Intro

There’s some pretty good jokes is this Barely Political mash-up of President Obama’s State of the Union address and Steve Jobs’ iPad presentation. Via Giz.

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See It Yourself: Apple Posts Video of Steve Job’s iPad Presentation

Apple has posted video of Steve Jobs unveiling the iPad. It’s available in QuickTime and MPEG-4 formats — Low, Medium, or High. The presentation is also available as a podcast through iTunes.

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