Rolling Stone co-founder slams publishers for embracing Apple's iPad

Jann Wenner, owner of Wenner Media, said in an interview with Advertising Age that magazine publishers are "crazy" to embrace the iPad. He said current products available on Apple's tablet are selling just a few thousand copies, a revenue stream that's ...

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Samsung latest Galaxy Tab: Sleeker than the Xoom, still no iPad

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is set to be released June 8, and while this may be the best Android tablet so far, it still doesn't match the intuitive experience offered by the iPad 2. Having tested the device for the past couple of weeks, ...

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Make Father's Day Special With These iPad Apps

I am sure you already have some awesome ideas to show your dad just how much you appreciate all he has done for you, but just in case you are looking for some last minute ideas to round things out, you should check out these iPad apps. ...

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Apple iPad Alternatives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The tablet market is about more than just the iPad. Seriously. Here are the bestâ€"and worstâ€"iPad competitors you can buy now. By Dan Costa With more than 80 percent of the market and an even greater degree of mindshare, there is no doubt the Apple ...

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Did Apple Put iPad's Brain In MacBook's Body?

By BRIAN CAULFIELD Soon or later, someone was going to put an iPad's brain in a MacBook Pro's body. Japanese Apple fan site Macotara is reporting Apple has ordered up a MacBook Air powered by the ARM-based A5 processor Apple designs. ...

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iPad your screenplay: FDX Reader vs GoodReader

When the iPad came over over a year ago, I imagined that it could eventually be a killer tool for reading and editing scripts, saving a trip to a printer or laptop. Well, so far, the iPad's been great for a lot of documents and publications...but a ...

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Why iPad 2 really dominates the tablet world

To the surprise of no one, Apple continues to sell more tablets than anyone else â€" by some estimates, three of every four tablets sold is an iPad 2. We all think we know why. Apple had a nearly year-long head start, an acolyte user base drawn like ...

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Square iPad app makes cash registers history

By Sharon Gaudin Tech startup Square, which is led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, announced Monday that it's working to turn the iPad, iPhone and Android devices into portable payment systems. At a news conference in San Francisco, ...

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3D (sort of) on your iPad without glasses

by Mel Martin (RSS feed) on May 23rd 2011 at 2:30PM There's a nifty little free demo you may want to pick up that uses the iPad camera to do some head tracking and create a kind of faux 3D on your iPad display. We took a look at an early demo for this ...

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The Apple Store Refresh Unveiled: iPad 2s and Party Hats

Apple has updated its retail stores with a ton of iPad 2s, which now sit next to Apple Store products to give consumers more information about the devices they're looking at. The iPads themselves run some kind of custom Apple software that make them a ...

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Inside Foxconn's fatal iPad factory

by Eric Mack Workers enter a Foxconn plant near Chengdu. An explosion in the company's Chengdu complex killed two workers Friday. "Among the three factories, occupational health and safety issues in Chengdu are alarming." That passage is from a report ...

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Lawsuit claiming AT&T is overcharging iPhone and iPad data usage may not go to ...

Barry L. Davis, the lead lawyer on the class action suit against AT&T for “systematically overbilling” iPhone and iPad users, appeared on NBC's Today Show yesterday to share some details of the study that is at the center of the important case (video ...

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Plizy Recommends Videos To Watch on Your iPad [INVITES]

Plizy, a video curation company, is launching in private beta Thursday an iPad application for video discovery. The iPad application curates and personalizes web video selections using a patent-pending recommendation engine that takes your Facebook and ...

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Post-PC: Tablets and Phones Are Killing Computers, Right?

By Doug Aamoth on May 18, 2011 A coworker came by my desk late yesterday afternoon and, seeing that I had an iPad propped up next to my laptop, asked why we weren't writing more posts here on Techland about how to use the iPad. ...

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Samsung's Reply to the iPad

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The swiftest way to describe Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is to say that it's just like the iPad 2, but running Android's 3.0 operating system that will soon be upgradeable to 3.1. It will be available June 8 starting at $499 ...

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Seagate releases battery-powered drive for iOS, other mobile platforms

By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Seagate today announced a battery-powered wireless external drive for mobile devices, including those powered by Apple's iOS, such as the iPad. Seagate's GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage, offers up to 500GB of ...

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Are Leaked iPhone 5G Cases a Sign Apple is 'iPad-izing' the iPhone?

One PCMag reader thinks it isâ€"and what's more, he thinks it could mean Apple is planning to change the screen ratio on its next-generation smartphone to match it to the iPad's. A listing on Guangdong, China-based Kulcase's trading site AliBaba.com ...

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iPad's Popularity Is Hurting PC Sales

By Jeffrey J. Rose | Email the author | 5:48am I'm thinking an iPad 2 might be the way to go for mom. She's 86 and, despite several computer classes for seniors, she's always getting into trouble on her PC. Software asks her if she wants to update it, ...

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Is Samsung's Insanely High-Res 10-inch Tablet LCD iPad 3-Bound?

By Matt Peckham on May 13, 2011 Disgruntled iPad owner? Suffering iPhone “retina” display envy? Who says you can't have your piece of pretty faux cake and gobble a crazy high-res version of it, too? Certainly not Samsung, who've just announced a ...

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Don't blame iPad for PC sales stagnation, says NPD

by Dana Franklin (RSS feed) on May 11th 2011 at 2:15PM According to NPD's figures, a significant majority of iPad owners never had plans to buy a PC. Only 14% of the study's "early adopters," or customers who bought the iPad more than six months ago, ...

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Computer: Tablets changing consumers' behavior

This new report, from survey giant The Nielsen Co., shows that tablet PCs -- primarily the Apple iPad -- are changing how people use electronics. The tablets are causing declines in the use of PCs, e-readers and portable media devices. ...

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Is the iPad Launching the Two-Screen Revolution?

9, 2011, 11:56am PT No Comments iPad owners are starting to see more and more apps that encourage the use of the device in conjunction with other screens. I'm not talking about remote desktop apps that allow the iPad to act as a mirror of other ...

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iPad 2 Scuffle at Beijing Apple Store Injures 4

By David Murphy Four hours: That's how long it took Apple stores in China to sell out of the iPad 2. But it apparently wasn't all fun, games, and cheering employees during the big product launch this past Friday. You've heard a little bit about the ...

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Violence Erupts at a Chinese Apple Store After iPad 2 Release

All over the new iPad? The fights come one day after the iPad 2 was released in China, resulting in lines over 100 meters long. According to Penn Olson: The most serious and troubling allegation â€" for Apple, in legal and PR terms â€" is that "a foreign ...

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iPad More Than A Toy For CEOs

By Paul McDougall InformationWeek An increasing number of chief executive officers are turning to the iPad instead of laptops or PCs for business work and communicationsâ€"a trend that could ultimately help Apple make bigger inroads in corporate America ...

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Rumored iPad 3 to get glasses-free 3D?

by Eric Mack If this serving of Apple iPad rumors seems a little crunchy, it's probably because it's in 3D. At least, the next iPad could be--if the rumors are true and you'll soon be able to enjoy CNET on an iPad 3 in glasses-free 3D. ...

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iOS 4.3.3 is out with location tracking fixes for iPhone, iPad

The iPhone and iPad kept logs of user locations even when Location Services were turned off in the iOS settings, and there was no apparent way to get rid of the log on the phone or the computer. Apple finally addressed the issue a week later by ...

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Oklahoma State students, faculty tout iPad in classroom

by Don Reisinger Apple's iPad could prove to be a must-have tool for colleges around the country, a new study from Oklahoma State University has found. During the fall 2010 semester, five sections of two courses on two campuses used Apple's tablet as ...

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Planetary iPad app turns music collections into galactic art (Q&A)

by Daniel Terdiman As a new kind of device, the iPad has forced developers and users alike to toss out their traditional notions of what data is and how it is presented. While smart phones like the iPhone and those using Google's Android kicked off ...

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One year after iPad: Is Adobe Flash still relevant?

A year after the introduction of the iPad, is Adobe's Flash platform still relevant on mobile devices, and the Web? Jason Perlow, Sr. Technology Editor at ZDNet is a technologist with over two decades of experience with integrating large heterogeneous ...

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