Tag Archives: tablet

iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 3 Demonstrates More Camera Options for iPad

Posted 24 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

It’s a Wednesday, so hopefully you’re excited that it’s the middle of the week. Not long left, right? And then it’s another week down, and one more week closer to the release of your favorite tablet device. It seems, as the weeks go by, that this camera rumor just gets stronger and stronger. It doesn’t [...]

New York Times Ad Shows iPad with Flash Again

Posted 22 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

Feel like laughing this morning? Well then, we’ve got the perfect story for you. It seems that someone, somewhere, had a little slip up, and have managed to put the “old” iPad New York Times promotional video back up. You remember the video, right? It’s the one that caused all that fuss about Flash working [...]

HP Slate Could See a Price-Drop Before Launch, Thanks to iPad

Posted 18 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

Remember the HP Slate? It’s Microsoft’s latest take on what they think a tablet should be. It’ll be running a full version of Windows 7, and it’s touch-based. Like a tablet should be. While the keynote was lackluster, and most people think Steve Ballmer didn’t do much to actually sell the tablet to them, nonetheless [...]

Apple iPad’s Safari Shown Off

Posted 18 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

This is just a quick note, because we think the video speaks well enough for itself. While we all know that the iPad is going to be rocking Safari as its browser (any hope for Opera?), but we think there’s a few surprises in here that might whet your appetite a bit. Not that you’re [...]

Thanks to the iPad, App Store Developers Surge in Numbers

Posted 12 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

Even amidst all this talk about the iPad not being the hot ticket everyone thought it would be, it looks like at least several hundred people are interested in developing for the future tablet. That’s right. According to Flurry, the analytics company that watches over applications, and their development, for Apple’s App Store and other [...]

Bill Gates Doesn’t Think the iPad is All That Great

Posted 11 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

A few people out there may read that title and may not be surprised at all. After all, Bill Gates is essentially Microsoft, so why would he like the iPad? Well, Mr. Gates isn’t afraid of saying good things about a product, even if he didn’t create it. Back when the iPhone launched, he praised [...]

Sony iPad rival in the works

Posted 04 February 2010 | By Chris Davies | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

Sony’s plans to enter the tablet market with an iPad competitor have gone public, as the company’s CFO revealed that the Japanese firm are “confident” they could build a strong rival.  Nobuyuki Oneda, speaking at the company’s financial results news conference, admitted that Sony had fallen behind in their timing, but that the company is [...]

Rumor Mill: Apple Working On Unannounced, Bigger Tablet

Posted 02 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | 2 Comments

Whether or not the majority of rumors regarding the release of the iPad were close, or completely off the mark really isn’t relevant anymore. The writers out there who subjected their readers to crazy, outlandish “reports” about what the Apple tablet would be are cursing at their trusted sources about now. But, it seems that [...]