When I attended Macworld|iWorld last Thursday and Friday, the show floor was bustling with attendees. And in terms of bustle-per-square-foot, the busiest booth I saw probably belonged to Nomad Brush, which makes brushes that can be used for digital painting on the iPad and other tablets. The company provided me with one for review.
One of the more interesting data points that came out of Apple’s recent earning report is that the iPad is becoming a major hit in the enterprise. Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed out that virtually every Fortune 500 and Global 500 company is already using the iPad in their businesses and adding more each quarter. The iPad is quickly becoming a serious business tool.
The truth is that consumers don’t really have a good option when it comes to buying “ethical” smartphones and tablets. Why is that? Why is there Fair Trade coffee but no Fair Trade electronics?
New Apple CEO Tim Cook is pleased with his company’s recent performance – so pleased, in fact, that he reportedly told employees at a “Town Hall” meeting that they’d soon be eligible for deep discounts on iPads and Macs.
Apple set a tech industry record last quarter with $46.3 billion in sales. Turns out, most people don’t care about the iPhone 4S having the same shape as its predecessor and not being called an iPhone 5. They gobbled 37.04 million of those iPhones up anyway last quarter, along with 15.43 million iPads and 5.2 million Macs.
Dutch appeals judges ruled Tuesday that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet is not a copy of Apple’s popular iPad, handing the Korean consumer electronics maker its latest legal victory over its American rival.
With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets and their role in driving the next generation of personal computing, we’re now firmly planted in the age of touch computing. There’s no turning back.
Officially, the RedPad is available to all Chinese citizens, although its 9,999 yuan (US$1,600) price tag has many of the country’s microbloggers speculating that the Android-based tablet is primarily meant as a tax-subsidized tool for party officials.
We’ll be there (and live-blogging) at Apple’s “education event” this Thursday, Jan. 19 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, but the scuttlebutt going in has Cupertino announcing a platform to — wait for it — “digitally destroy” textbooks.
DigiTimes may be the new 50-50, as in “half the time they’re kind of right,” “half the time they’re mostly wrong,” but okay, we’ll bite: Another supply chain source just told the rumormonger that Taiwanese electronics supplier Pegatron is already taking orders for Apple’s next iPad.
Martin Reisch was driving from Quebec into Vermont when he realized he left his passport at home. When he got to the U.S. border officer, he decided to show his driver’s license and a scanned copy of his passport on his iPad instead.
