Jobs Can Rest Easy as IPad Wannabes Flood Market: Tech by Rich Jaroslovsky

(Source: Bloomberg) The Iconia Tab A500 from Acer Inc. At $450 for 16 gigabytes of storage, it's $50 cheaper than the comparable iPad. Photographer: Kevin Thrash/Bloomberg It's been a bit more than a year since Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad went on sale, ...

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HBO Go Comes to iPad, Android

by Peter Kafka HBO Go, the pay cable channel's Web service, doesn't formally launch on the iPad until Monday. But no need to wait: You can download it now at iTunes. As advertised, the free app is a mirror of HBO's existing broadband service: It lets ...

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Report: Foxconn workers charged for iPad 2 leaks

by Josh Lowensohn Three employees of Foxconn are said to have been charged for violating the company's trade secrets by allegedly leaking design details of Apple's iPad 2 ahead of its release. Citing reporting from Chinese-language source Sznews, ...

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Game Over: iPad Wins, Android Loses

The iPad now has a lead so vast that it will not and cannot be dislodged from its position of dominance. Fans of competing platforms don't want to hear this, of course. The Google Android faction believes that -- finally! ...

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Sony Makes Quirky Entrance Into Tablet Market

By Rob Spiegel "Sony's approach both follows and contradicts the conventional wisdom about tablets ... that any and every product has to compete head-to-head against Apple's iPad," said tech analyst Charles King. "The S1's off-center design appears to ...

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Apple sued over tracking on iPhone, iPad

Apple Inc. was accused of invasion of privacy and computer fraud by two customers who claim in a lawsuit that the company is secretly recording movements of iPhone and iPad users. Vikram Ajjampur, an iPhone user in Florida, and William Devito, ...

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Apple's iPad miss prompts cuts in forecast

But a miss in sales targets on the iPad may prompt some to temper their lofty views. Apart from the iPad hiccup, investors appeared uniformly delighted with the near-doubling of the company's profit, sending its stock up 2 percent. ...

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Review: G-Slate a powerful, but pricey iPad competitor

The G-Slate is the second major contender set to try to topple the Apple iPad's overwhelming supremacy, after the Motorola Xoom's February release on the Verizon network. Motorola hasn't released sales numbers, but analysts expect the Xoom to ship just ...

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TechBytes: Can iPad and iPhones Track You? Government Wants Answers From Apple

by BRETT LEVY and TINA TRINH In today's TechBytes: new questions for Apple. Two lawmakers are asking the company to explain why it's collecting location information on iPhones and iPads. Additionally, some European governments say they will investigate ...

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Apple's iPhone/iPad location-tracking may be a bug

Why is Apple tracking the locations of iPhone and iPad users? The reason is probably less Big Brother and more Big Glitch, according to blogger John Gruber. Gruber's source told him that the much-maligned tracking file is just a cache for location data ...

Read more at: http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/21/why-is-apple-iphone-tracking-my-location/

iPhone, iPad said recording your every move

By Larry Dignan At the Where 2.0 conference the discovery of the day is that your iPhone and iPad is tracking your every move. Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden make the find and note on the O'Reilly Radar blog: "Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has ...

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Samsung Ready to Battle Apple in Patent War

By Brian X. Chen Apple claims the Galaxy Tab (right) is a shameless copy of the iPad (left). Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com In a lawsuit filed Friday, Apple accused Samsung of copying the iPad and the iPhone, and the Korean giant is threatening to ...

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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Blames Unemployment on iPad

Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), who apparently believes that Apple's iPad is responsible for high American unemployment. Jackson, who owns an iPad himself, resents the fact that Apple's popular tablet computer is made in China by manufacturing company ...

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Apple's iPad 2 now on sale at select Toys R Us stores

By Sam Oliver Apple's US retail expansion of the iPad 2 continues, with the second-generation touchscreen tablet now on sale at select Toys R Us locations. Toys R Us began advertising availability of the iPad 2 on Sunday. Its arrival came just over a ...

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The Real Reason Mike McCue Needs $50 Million: Google Is Building A Flipboard ...

When news came out the other day that Flipboard just raised another $50 million at a $200 million valuation for its iPad news reading app, I gave CEO Mike McCue a hard time on Twitter and here on TechCrunch. Does an iPad app startup really need $50 ...

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Android tablets undercutting iPad prices

In an effort to attract buyers away from Apple's iPad, device makers are setting starting prices of Android tablets to undercut iPad's $499 entry-level price. The starting prices for tablets with 10.1-inch screens from ViewSonic, Asustek and Acer range ...

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iOS 4.3.2 arrives, fixes iPad 3G and FaceTime bugs

by Josh Lowensohn Apple has released iOS 4.3.2 to users this morning, a build that promises to fix a bug that had video going blank or becoming frozen during FaceTime calls, as well another bug that kept some international iPad users with 3G models ...

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Maine school district to spend $200000 on Apple iPads for kindergartners

A school district in Maine is proposing to spend about $200000 on Apple iPad 2s to get the devices into the hands of about 300 kindergartners. "It's a revolution in education," said Auburn School Dept. Supt. Tom Morrill in a report from the Associated ...

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Report: No Apple iPad 3 in 2011

By Sara Yin If you were holding out for the iPad 3 that was, at one point, rumored to be coming out this fall, you may have to suspend your disbelief for another year. Well-known rumor monger and Taiwanese newspaper DigiTimes on Tuesday called foul ...

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Bing for iPad Uses Tablet Screen for Big Visuals, Features

By Nicholas Kolakowski on 2011-04-11 Even as Microsoft wrestles with how to approach the burgeoning tablet market with a product of its ownâ€"and perhaps blunt Apple's iPad momentumâ€"the company has released a free Bing for iPad application that takes ...

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Schools supe: iPad more important than a book

CNN and WGME reported that every elementary public school student in Auburn, Maine, will be getting a new iPad 2. The iPad will become a permanent tool of learning for these children. But perhaps those who haven't quite kept up with technology's pace ...

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Auburn School District Decides All Kindergartners Need iPad 2 (VIDEO)

A Maine school system may be adding the iPad 2 to its list of mandatory kindergarten classroom items, with the district footing the bill. The Auburn Schools Committee voted unanimously to provide all kindergartners with an iPad 2 next year. ...

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Best Buy Refusing iPad 2 Sales on Purpose

Various reports indicate that Apple may have black-listed Best Buy because the retailer is putting a freeze on iPad 2 sales. The news first appeared on CrunchGear last night, based on an email supplied by a Best Buy employee. According to the unnamed ...

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Against All Odds, CABLE COMPANIES Are Now Making The Coolest iPad Video Apps ...

A new crop of cool iPad video apps have recently hit Apple's App Store, and they're coming from an unexpected source: America's largest cable companies. The cable giants like Cablevision, Time Warner, and Comcast are finally taking advantage of their ...

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Report: Apple Sold 2.6 Million iPad 2s in March

By Sara Yin Apple sold up to 2.6 million iPad 2s in its first month, according to upstream touch panel suppliers quoted by Taiwanese newspaper DigiTimes. The report suggests Apple could have sold more if it had not been constrained by the supply of ...

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Consumer Reports recommends iPad 2 ... and its competition

Here that includes the iPad 2, the out-of-production first iPad and the Motorola Xoom. By Wilson Rothman Consumer Reports has given a stamp of approval to the iPad 2. But before the fanboys can rejoice, they need to know two things: CR gave the same ...

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Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 arrives, except for iPad 2

The new versions of the software, which were published to the group's blog last night, as well as on Bittorrent and more than a dozen mirrors, work on all devices that support iOS 4.3.1, short of the CDMA version of the iPhone 4, and the iPad 2. ...

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Apple's New iPad 2 Ad Stresses Ease of Use, Not Specs

By Jeff Bertolucci, PCWorld Apr 3, 2011 7:50 AM Apple wants you to know something that most consumers probably already assume is true: the iPad 2 is easier to use than competing slates. A new Apple ad trumpets the iPad 2's ease-of-use edge, ...

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Cablevision iPad App Lets Users Access Live TV, On-Demand Video

By Chloe Albanesius Cablevision on Saturday released an iPad app that lets consumers access the cable provider's lineup on the Apple tablet. But despite the licensing issues that rival Time Warner Cable has been experiencing with a similar iPad app, ...

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Fight over Time Warner Cable's iPad service comes down to philosophical ...

That's one way to look at the fight Time Warner Cable is in with several big programmers over whether the cable company has the rights to offer channels it has already paid for to its customers via the iPad. Time Warner Cable figures, hey, ...

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