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 …
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Apple iPad Event Live Coverage
Join us at 1pm ET (10am PT) for moment-by-moment news from Apple’s San Francisco event, as it happens.
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New iPad to Feature Textured Touchscreen Technology?
Real Winners with Apple’s New iPad: Kids Who Will Inherit Their Parents’ Old iPads
The group that should probably be most excited by a new iPad hitting the marketplace is that of kids who will suddenly become the lucky owners of perfectly functional, hand-me-down iPads as their parents upgrade to the new tablets.
With an App Store, WIMM’s Android Watch Gets a Little More Practical
Style considerations aside, owning a dedicated wristwatch is harder to justify when the smartphone in your pocket provides the same information and then some.
So now we have companies like WIMM, whose Android-powered WIMM One …
The Last Word on iPad Predictions (Yours!)
Less than 12 hours from now, this post will be obsolete. Apple’s iPad event will be well underway, and all speculation about the company’s news–the speculation that began the moment the iPad 2 was announced last year–will …
Coming Wednesday: Our Live Apple iPad Event Coverage
I snapped the above photo of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center with my iPhone on Monday night. On Wednesday at 1pm ET (10am PT) I’ll be inside, in the audience for Apple’s iPad event. As the news breaks, I’ll liveblog it here at …
Lytro’s Light-Field Camera: Photography, Reimagined
In the world of technology, there are three kinds of change. There’s the subtle, never-ending process of refinement we call evolution. There’s revolution, which is like evolution in fast-forward mode. And then, every once in a …
Could the Asus MeMo Become a $199 Google-Branded ‘Nexus’ Tablet?
As if we weren’t already excited enough about the Asus MeMo 370T, a new rumor suggests that the $250, 7-inch, quad-core tablet could get a $50 price drop and launch with Google’s “Nexus” branding.
Citing “two different …
Coming in 2025: Android Yogurt-Covered Pretzel
As anyone who pays close attention to Android knows, Google names each update to its mobile operating system after a sweet treat, and does so in alphabetical order. Like the Vatican releasing smoke to signal the election of a new …
Apple Wants to Upend the TV Business: Will Big Content Play Ball?
Over the course of his career, Steve Jobs revolutionized three industries — personal computing, digital music, and mobile communication. Before his death last fall, he had turned his attention to a fourth — television.
via …
Apple User Gets $10,000 iTunes Card for Downloading 25 Billionth App
And a great hush came over the world as Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China initiated the download of Where’s My Water? Free.
Free though the app may have been, Chunli Fu’s fortuitous timing ultimately resulted in the awarding of …