iPad

Former Adobe executives Fang Chang and Nigel Pegg know that kids love iPads, and they wanted to offer them something more educational than YouTube or Angry Birds. So they are launching Bookboard, an iPad app that gives parents and kids streaming access to a library of children’s ebooks. Burlingame, Calif.–based Bookboard, which is available in Continue Reading →

SRI International has produced some remarkable technologies over the years, with the more recent notables including Siri, Trapit, Nuance, and many others. On Friday, another one of Siri’s siblings launches into public beta and it hopes to help make travel planning and discovery much smarter. Desti is calling itself the smartest travel guide available for Continue Reading →

Microsoft is moving one step closer to releasing its Office applications on iPad, iPhone and Android, according to a recent report by The Verge. Although rumours about Office Mobile have been circulating for some time now – especially once an iPad version was spotted by The Daily – there has been very little evidence to suggest Continue Reading →

The Apple iPad mini is now on sale, as is the Wi-Fi version of the revamped fourth-generation iPad. Pricing for the smaller, 7.9-inch Apple tablet starts at $329 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version. The 32GB Wi-Fi is $429, while the 64GB is $529. The Wi-Fi plus cellular versions are $459 (16GB), $559 (32GB), and $659 (64GB). The Continue Reading →

As with the apology that appeared on Apple’s web site, this “apology” isn’t called an apology and doesn’t contain the word “sorry” or anything vaguely similar. It’s a small, short, factual summary of the case in which Samsung was found not to have copied Apple’s iPad design, along with a link to the ruling we Continue Reading →

Apple released iOS 6.0.1 today, and you should go get it. It’s a minor upgrade to iOS 6–the operating system that shipped with the iPhone 5 and that more than 100 million people have subsequently upgraded their iPads and iPhones devices to run. It has a lot of little fixes, but the one at the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121030_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] After Hurricane Sandy canceled Monday’s Android event in New York, Google took to its blog to announce its new tech. Apple’s iPad finally has a true challenger in Google’s Nexus 10, which packs a whopping 300 pixels per inch into its screen, nearly 20 percent more than Continue Reading →

It’s been a long time, but it’s finally here. Google’s big answer to the iPad—the tablet that created an entire market—has officially arrived. A better-than-Retina screen, curves and serious speed. Its name is Nexus 10 and it’s $100 cheaper than the iPad. Learn all about it here. Looking at the specs, it seems that the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121029_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] One of the inevitable effects of Apple releasing a new full-sized iPad alongside the iPad Mini is the waves of Apple diehards trying to unload their now “outdated” hardware. Hardware trading sites have announced that they’ve seen as much as a one-thousand percent increase in iPad swaps Continue Reading →

It has only been a few days since Apple announced its new iPad mini tablet device and Amazon has decided to put a damper on the iPad mini’s introduction to the world. The company today is advertising its Kindle Fire HD tablet and compares it against the new iPad mini. It doesn’t look like the Continue Reading →