I believe that Rene Ritchie of iMore was the first Apple blogger to report that Apple would launch the iPad 3 at an event on March 7th. When The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple agreed, I believed it. Now it’s a done deal, period: Apple has …
Karma: A Fresh Take on Gift Giving
If the venerable concept of mail-order gift catalogs hadn’t been invented until just now, it might look a lot like Karma. This app for iOS and Android, from a startup of the same name, is focused on helping busy people find and …
Samsung Exec: Samsung’s Not Doing Very Well with Tablets
It’s been almost two years since the first iPad shipped, and no manufacturer has emerged as Apple’s primary archrival in the tablet business. But Samsung has been trying harder than anyone else, with scads of models that take on …
The Microsoft Store: Surprisingly Pleasant
Microsoft opened the first two branches of The Microsoft Store back in October 2009. But its retail chain didn’t reach the San Francisco Bay Area until November of last year, when a branch opened up across from the Apple Store at …
Photoshop Touch: The Best iPad Image Editor Yet
When I do graphics stuff on a computer, I spend 99.994% of my time in one tool: Photoshop. When I do it on my iPad 2–which I’m doing more and more–I jump between multiple apps, including PhotoForge2, iResize, Snapseed, …
Microsoft Office 15: Ready (and Not Ready) for Windows 8
Windows 8, with its radically new touch-centric Metro interface, is all very interesting. But it’s not nearly as interesting as the applications that it will run–the ones that we’ll use to get real work done.
And one of the …
Box Gives Android Users 50GB of Free Cloud Storage
Online storage and collaboration company Box has upgraded its apps for Android phones and tablets. They have new features such as multiple-file uploads, threaded comments on any file and the ability to invite other people into a …
Rampage and Tapper Come to the iPad, and Suddenly Life is Complete
What’s my favorite arcade game of all time? That’s easy. It’s Atari’s Tempest, and I was therefore thrilled when it became available for the iPad and iPhone, along with scads of other vintage games, as part of Atari’s Greatest …
OnLive Desktop Plus: Windows at Its Speedy Best — on Your iPad
Last month, cloud gaming pioneer OnLive put its sophisticated technology to a new purpose: running Windows 7 on an iPad. It launched OnLive Desktop, a free service that let you use Word, Excel and PowerPoint–the real, …
RIM: What Happened
Jesse Hicks of The Verge has written an excellent story on the history of Research In Motion–from founder Mike Lazaridis’s Lego experiments as a four-year-old all the way through to its current woes, with lots of interesting …
Office for iPad: The Plot Thickens
Is Microsoft finishing up work on a version of Office for the iPad? On Tuesday, The Daily’s Matt Hickey reported that it was, and got a lot of folks–me included–excited.
Now Microsoft is disuputing Hickey’s account of …
Office for the iPad: Microsoft, Seize This Opportunity!
FOLLOW-UP: Office for iPad: The Plot Thickens
People have been wondering whether Microsoft would release a version of Office for the iPad for almost as long as there’s been an iPad. Now Matt Hickey of The Daily has what seems …
