CBS Launches Streaming App for iOS

CBS
American TV network CBS has launched a brand new iOS app, optimized for both iPhone/iPod touch and iPad, which will let users stream programming from between 24-hours and eight days after broadcast. Indeed, daytime and late night programming will be available within 24 hours after initial airing, but the majority of primetime programs will be Continue Reading →

Your iPad May Accidentally Put Your Macbook to Sleep

Macbook Pro
If you have an iPad and one of Apple’s laptops (a not too uncommon pairing), then be aware that, depending on how you arrange them, your iPad may put your Mac to sleep. Apple has made some creative use of magnets in its systems over the years, with lid latches, MagSafe power connections, and other Continue Reading →

Where is Instagram’s Native iPad App?

Instagram
Last night, I published my 400th photo on Instagram — and it got me thinking about how I use this indispensable app. In the year and half I’ve been using the service, that amounts to about about five pictures posted per week. But my posting pales in comparison to how often I use the app: Continue Reading →

Windows RT Dubbed ‘A Lemon’ That Consumers Are Avoiding

Windows 8
The signs of doom are all aligned for Windows RT, which looks like it could soon inhibit the same plane of oblivion currently occupied by Microsoft Bob. Ars Technica’s Peter Bright has written a thorough pre-obituary for the current incarnation of Microsoft’s first attempt at creating a tablet-centric operating system, which he calls “a lemon” Continue Reading →

Report: Apple Slashes 9.7″ iPad Orders Due to iPad mini

iPad mini
The iPad mini might be a much hungrier cannibal than Apple had anticipated. Unnamed sources have told Digitimes that Apple has drastically cut its 9.7-inch iPad shipment estimates from 60 million to 33 million in 2013, due largely to the unanticipated popularity of the iPad mini. According to Digitimes‘ sources, Apple is ramping up iPad Continue Reading →