iPad

The scenario I described was visiting a friend at the beach. You take your MacBook and your iPhone. You do some work at the condo. Then, you go to lunch, and take your iPhone with you. The MacBook stays put: it would be awkward in a cozy restaurant. Maybe overheat if left in the car.…

“We are now preparing for negotiations,” Proview lawyer Xie Xianghui said, according to The Times of India. “The court cases will continue until we reach an agreement.”Proview prepping for iPad trademark negotiations with AppleApple has argued that it legitimately purchased the Chinese rights to the iPad name, although local courts ruled in favor of Proview…

Proview Technology owned (or owns, depending on who you ask) the trademark to the term “iPad,” a trademark it registered in China and other Asian countries in 2000. Apple purchased those rights from a Taiwan-based subsidiary of Proview Technology, a purchase that Apple believed included rights to the name in China, but Proview claims that…

That horse may have long since left the barn and could be in another state by now, though: a Cisco survey found that 48 percent of IT managers’ companies would never allow employees to bring their own devices, but 57 percent admitted it was happening without consent anyway, and 51 percent said the number of…

On the smaller tablet front, which has been oft-discussed since the original iPad hit the market two years ago, Apple is said to be showing its suppliers designs for an iPad with an 8-inch screen, compared to the 9.7-inch one currently on the device. The resolution is expected to be the same, while a third-generation…

It seems that Proview Technology sent letters to authorities in Shijiazhuang, which is southwest of Beijing. The Washington Post reported an economic investigation official as saying that all iPads had been taken off the shelves in the Xinhua district in Shijiazhuang. He gave no indication of how many locations or devices had been involved. Apple has only…

The announcement was first spotted by NextGov (via 9to5Mac), which first reported the plan as one to specifically buy iPad 2 models from Apple. Lt. Col. Glen Roberts of the AMC has since clarified that it is looking for, “a tablet device, not necessarily an iPad.” The issue of replacing flight manuals with iPads (or…

We’ve talked about this topic before: the pleasure of having our iPads right in front of our noses for easy reading without the need to actually hold them. The Akron TAB802 deserves serious consideration from anyone looking for a table mount, clamp model holder. It doesn’t have the arm lengths of some models, but it offers…

Inside the World of Dinosaurs is a massive and glorious app for the iPad. It’s far from perfect, and at the price of US$14.95 it is pricey, but M5859 Studios has done a terrific job of creating a compelling and engaging overview of 60 dinosaurs and the world in which they lived. I would consider it a showpiece…

How’s it going? Not bad, actually. I’m finding that I’m more open to impromptu outings to places that I likely would not have gone to before. An example of these new extemporaneous expeditions of mine occurred two weeks ago. Some friends suggested we take a day off in the middle of the week and take…

Jumsoft’s Cookbook template for iBooks AuthorThe package includes ten templates with editable layouts, chapter and text pages, covers, table of contents, glossary pages, and more. Template styles are included for business and textbook layouts.Book Palette 1.0 is priced at US$2.99 and is available at Apple’s Mac App Store. The templates require iBooks Author, which is…

Mediadevil has made a believer out of me when it comes to screen savers for my iPad 2. Their screen saver is called Easyscreen and the unique feature is the Easyscreen uses no adhesive to stick to the viewable area of the iPad screen. The adhesive is used around the Easyscreen border, which is colored to…

Alice for the iPad is an iPad app that provides a both abridged and full text version of Lewis Carroll’s beloved book, Alice in Wonderland, for children. It’s solid, well done and has sold over 500,000 copies. What’s interesting here is that this is an app, not an eBook file. What that allows is a…

There are a plethora of iPad cases available today, and just as many use cases for the iPad itself. For some, it is a multimedia device primarily used to watch video. For others, an on-the-go email and productivity device. Some users type furiously and others almost never.  This reviewer falls into the latter of that…

The Air Force Special Operations Command stated (PDF) in a December 29, 2011 notice that, following three months of product evaluation, it planed to purchase over 2,800 iPad 2s to act as electronic flight bags for its crews. The Air Force felt that, of all the tablets they tested, only the iPad 2 “outmatched all…

As we know, Amazon has been reluctant to sell ebooks inside the Kindle app because Apple will then take 30 percent of the purchase price. That’s no good for Amazon’s business. As a result, Amazon has offered customers the ability to purchase ebooks at Amazon.com, the Kindle edition, and then the purchased item is placed…

My reasoning at the time was simple. A 7-in. iPad would be too big to function as a mobile alternative to an iPhone or iPod touch. At the other end, it would be too small to adequately function as general purpose tablet computer. Many people see the iPad as ultimately replacing laptops such as the…

A rumor is just a rumor and should be taken with a grain of salt. But if the rumor leads to some considered analysis, then it’s the analysis that’s interesting, not the rumor. So while I don’t claim to have any inside information, I’d like to analyze the above rumor. Apple got caught with its…

NPD considers companies with fewer than 1,000 employees as small or mid-size, according to Fortune.Businesses ready to buy iPads in 2012In the under 50 employees range, 54 percent of companies surveyed said they plan on buying tablets in 2012, although they’ll spend on average $1,912. Jumping up to the 510-999 employee range, however, some 89…

Much fun was had playing Diablo. Much fun. There are installments in the Diablo franchise and fans eagerly await Diablo III, which promises to provide a more immersive, interactive environment. While waiting, many iOS users have sated their dungeon rooting desires in the Diablo-esque game, Dungeon Hunter. The original Dungeon Hunter lacked the sophistication and…

Camera Boost for the iPad 2 is a replacement camera app that allows realtime enhancements to photos or videos. It adds HDR to videos, dynamic noise reduction, and improves on the default app in low light conditions. The very first thing you should know about this app is that it allows more photographic control over…

“Amazon and Barnes & Noble are shaking up the media tablet market, and their success helps prove that there is an appetite for media tablets beyond Apple’s iPad,” Tom Mainelli, research director, Mobile Connected Devices, said in a statement. Accordingly IDC believes “Android” will claim 40.3 percent of the tablet market this quarter, up from…

There are a number of products on the market today that allow users to safely hold an iPad or an iPad 2 in one hand. Grablet has built on that concept by creating one that does that while also working with the Apple Smart Covers. It is available in 12 colors from the Grablet web site.…

The Apple certified Gum Max™ backup battery from Just Mobile will recharge iPads, iPods, and iPhones. The unit is aluminum-clad and measured 3.3 by 4.3 by 1-in (8.3 by 11 by 2.6-cm). the output is 2.1 amps and the capacity is 10,400 mAh*. An Apple dock connector cable, USB-to-micro USB cable, and travel pouch are included.…