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Consumer Reports‘ iPad Battery Claims Don’t Check Out with Us
Consumer Reports made itself the center of the tech world’s attention this week by claiming that Apple’s new iPad reached temperatures of 116 degrees Fahrenheit while playing games. But the group also made another claim that …
30 Best Apps for Apple’s New iPad
The new iPad’s just a paperweight without apps. Here are 30 of our favorites, from cheapest to priciest.
Apple’s New iPad and the End of Hardware Impressiveness
Inevitably, some people were disappointed by Apple’s new iPad, which comes out this Friday.
Aside from the Retina display, the new iPad consists of minor updates, the Associated Press wrote. CNet’s David Carnoy wrote a …
Apple Announces New iPad with ‘Retina’ Display, Same Old Name
Apple today announced its newest iPad, with a 2048-by-1536-pixel “Retina” display as the featured attraction. And it’s simply called the new “iPad,” not the iPad 3 or iPad HD as rumored.
This year’s iPad update is mostly about …
TouchTV: A Simple App for Snack-Size TV on the iPad
Personally, I don’t like watching long videos on the iPad. There’s too much other stuff to do, and I can’t sit still through an entire movie or TV show without succumbing to the tablet’s many other distractions.
So TouchTV, a …
Yup, the iPad 4 Rumors Have Begun
iPad 3 rumors? Old and boring. The rumor mill is already moving on to talk of the iPad 4, which is apparently coming this October, six months after the supposed launch of its predecessor.
The source of this rumor, as expected, …
Apple vs. Samsung: Here Come the Retina Display Tablets
Apple and Samsung are preparing tablets for early next year with double the screen resolution of the current iPad and Galaxy Tab, according to a pair of rumors.
The first bit of claptrap comes from Citi analyst Richard …
Pilots Replace Paper Manuals with iPads (Even During Takeoff)
Another day, another “look who’s using the iPad now!” story.
According to the New York Times, airplane pilots are the latest to join the tablet craze. American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Executive Jet Management have all allowed pilots to store reference manuals — a collection of documents that weighs 40 pounds on paper — on …
Opera Mini Browser Lands On iPad, but It Won’t Replace Safari
Opera’s littlest web browser, Opera Mini, just got a big update for iOS, with optimization for the iPad. This free browser underdog provides a great experience on Apple’s tablet, but it has too many frustrations to fully replace the iPad’s default Safari browser.
There’s a lot to like about Opera Mini on the iPad. The browser’s …
‘Planetary’ Is a Celestial iPad Music Player
Someone didn’t tell the folks at Bloom Studio that music players are supposed to be boring, because Planetary for iPad is something entirely different.
The free app visualizes your music library as a massive galaxy, floating in deep space. Artists are represented as solar systems, their albums are planets, and each song is a moon, …
Latest ‘PCs Are Doomed’ Forecast Includes Worst Line Graph Ever
I thought I could write a serious blog post about Asymco’s first quarter PC forecast, but no.
The conclusion is similar to every other sky-falling-on-Windows story you might have read: PCs are in trouble, Macs are doing fine, and the iPad is causing laptop vendors the world over to wake up in a cold sweat. Asymco’s version is a bit …
