15 Weather Apps for the iPad. Apple: We Just Sold Three Million iPads - John Paczkowski. When Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company’s new iPad had a record launch weekend, he wasn’t kidding. In an announcement published moments ago, the company said that it has sold 3 million new iPads since the device’s launch last Friday. That’s triple the number of iPads it sold during the same period last year, assuming analyst estimates at that time were accurate. Though Apple never released an official first weekend sales number for the iPad 2, a number of analysts said their checks suggest the company sold close to 1 million units.
So, a threefold increase. Impressive. And with a number of international launches in the offing, sales are still ramping up. Karim Riachi: New #Apple TV hands on :)... Khan Academy launches iPad app with complete library of over 2,700 educational videos. Although there are a few unofficial apps in the App Store that allow you to access content from the Khan Academy, the online education portal just launched an official iPad app. Available free in the App Store now, the app provides access to the organization’s 2,700-and up educational videos. The videos cover a range of subjects from K-12 math and science to history and finance. The biggest difference between the new official app and those from third-party devs is that you can now log in to your Khan Academy account; get credit for watching videos, and track goals and achievements from within the app. The app also provides fully subtitled videos with the ability to browse by subtitle, an enhanced video scrubber, and lets you download videos and playlists for offline viewing.
Spend an afternoon brushing up on Statistics. Discover how the Krebs cycle works. Learn about the fundamentals of Computer Science. MUNSTER: Apple Will Sell More Than 1 Million iPads Friday. Why the New iPad is So Huge for Apple. Maybe it didn't seem like it, but today's new iPad introduction was Apple's most important event of the year. Sure, the iPhone is still a bigger business for Apple, and probably will be for a while. But the iPhone is just Apple's small sliver of the giant phone market. The iPad, meanwhile, is a green field - a totally new market that Apple is building and defining.
And so far, it has it almost to itself. It's the future of Apple and potentially the future of the personal computer. That's a rare and tremendous opportunity. The Best Tablet, But Also the Best Price Today's new iPad continued two important trends for Apple. First and foremost, the iPad maintained its lead as the best tablet on the market in terms of hardware, software, and ecosystem. Between the retina display - unmatched by the competition - and the Apple TV accessory, Apple's tablet story is richer and more useful than Amazon's, Samsung's, or anyone's. But Apple also continues its price-to-value leadership. iPad vs. the PCs. Apple's new iPad: The analysts weigh in.
Good Luck Building A $399 Tablet That's Better Than The iPad 2. iPad 2 - View the technical specifications for iPad 2. Apple Inc.: NASDAQ:AAPL quotes & news - Google Finance. This #ipad3 launch is horribly boring. Steve, I miss you terribly. Live Apple iPad 3 event coverage! Live Apple iPad 3 event coverage! Rumor mill: Will the new iPad have a tactile display? Apple Has A Supply Issue With Retina Displays For The iPad 3. iPad 3 Concept Features. New Apple TV Will Launch With The iPad 3. Proview: “We are now preparing for negotiations with Apple” Cash-strapped display maker Proview that sued Apple over the iPad moniker in China feels it has the Cupertino, Calif. -headquartered gadget giant right where it wants them, cornered against the wall. Just as the Intermediate People’s Court in Huizhou ruled last Friday that local distributors should stop selling iPads in China, Proview now told The Times of India it us ready to sit at the negotiating table, apparently telling Apple it has “peaceful intentions.”
The company wants money, is hoping for an out of court settlement, and it is shooting for as high as $2 billion for the I-PAD trademark in China. Legal representatives for the debt-laden company told the paper Tuesday: We are now preparing for negotiations. The court cases will continue until we reach an agreement. A court in Shanghai will begin hearings tomorrow on whether Proview’s claims have any merit and the ruling could take months, Reuters reported. The iPad 3 Rumor Roundup. Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March - John Paczkowski - Mobile. Apple’s not holding an event in February — strange, unusual or otherwise.
But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad. Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2, and will do so at one of its trademark special events. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like these. No word yet on a street date for the iPad 3 (assuming that’s what it’s called), though my guess is retail availability will follow roughly the same schedule as that of the iPad 2: Available for purchase a week or so after the event. If 2011 was the year of the iPad 2, will 2012 be the year of the iPad 3? Said a source familiar with the device: “What do you think?” An Apple spokeswoman declined comment on the timing of the event, saying the company does not comment on rumors and speculation. P.ost. iPad 3 photos show quad-core processor, Wi-Fi and global LTE options.
Prepare Pizzas in iPad Game from Domino’s. Domino’s is one of the most iOS-savvy pizza companies out there and it reported last month that its iPad and iPhone apps, along with their Android counterpart and the company’s mobile website, had brought in £130,000 in orders in a single day in the UK alone. Just ordering pizzas is not enough though—the company wants you to have fun while you do it. Domino’s has released Domino’s Pizza Hero on the App Store, a free iPad game made by the advertising agency CP+B that takes you through 11 levels of making pizzas as a Domino’s employee and even lets you order the real-life version of your very own virtual pizza if you live in the United States.
The first five levels of the game are devoted to helping you learn how to make pizzas. You start out in Pizza Prep School figuring out how to stretch the dough and then progress to spreading sauce on it, throwing on the cheese, loading it up with toppings and then doing all of the above at once. ➤Domino’s Pizza Hero for iPad. NYT Gadget Guru Rips The Kindle Fire, Says It Needs 'A Lot More Polish' Steve Kovach, Business Insider The Kindle Fire isn't ready for primetime, says New York Times gadget reviewer David Pogue.
Other than the $200 price tag, there isn't a lot that sounds compelling about Amazon's disruptive tablet after reading Pogue's review. He says the Fire isn't as "versatile as a real tablet," and it's mostly made for consuming content. The problem with that is the Fire isn't good for content consumption. This is the nut of Pogues problems with the Fire: Most problematic, though, the Fire does not have anything like the polish or speed of an iPad. He also says Amazon's vaunted Silk browser isn't particularly fast: "nytimes.com takes 10 seconds to load, eBay.com takes 17 seconds, takes 8 seconds. The bottom line: Kindle Fire needs "a lot more polish," and it's best to wait for the Kindle Fire 2.0, which will be less buggy and sleeker.
Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions. Surprising number of consumers could buy the Kindle Fire instead of the iPad 2. Tablets in all shapes, sizes and price ranges will greet shoppers this holiday season. The iPad currently reigns supreme, but can a more moderately priced, smaller device like the Kindle Fire win over gift-buying consumers? Absolutely, says consumer electronics review site Retrevo. The company polled 1,000 people in October on their tablet-buying intentions and found that, of those planning to buy a tablet, 44 percent would consider purchasing the $199 Kindle Fire instead of the iPad 2, which starts at $499. Then again, the same percentage of folks said that they didn’t know enough about the Fire, and 12 percent indicated that they would only buy an iPad. Amazon’s greatest challenge, according to Retrevo, will be convincing shoppers that the Fire is a full-fledged tablet.
Thirty-five percent of those surveyed perceive the Fire as just another Amazon e-reader. Retrevo’s findings match up with market research firm ChangeWave’s research on the Amazon Kindle Fire versus Apple’s iPad 2. iPad 3 Release Date. A report from Japanese blog Macotakara claims that Apple's iPad 3 will begin production in late January and feature a new, smaller dock connector, Cnet reports. The tablet, which will feature the same 9.7-inch screen, is being "rushed into production due to Chinese New Year celebrations" at the end of January, Cnet notes. This would pinpoint the iPad 3's launch date for sometime in March, as has been tradition for the past two years. Historically, Apple has altered peripheral ports in order to make devices thinner and in order to make room for re-designed internals.
By changing the dimensions of the iPad dock connector, the new iPad will be incompatible with all iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad accessories. Macotakara could not speculate on if the iPad 3 will feature a high-density Retina display like the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. See below for pictures of the new dock connector: Don't Miss: The Best iPhone And iPad Apps You Missed This Week >
Cops On The Hunt For Duplicitous iPlank Scammers. AUGUST 30--In a new variation on the “brick in a box” scam, a South Carolina woman who thought she purchased an iPad from two men in a McDonald’s parking lot discovered yesterday that the purported tablet was actually “a piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo.”
According to a Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office report, Ashley McDowell, 22, told deputies that she was approached by two black males who claimed to have purchased iPads in bulk and were selling them for $300 apiece. After McDowell explained that she only had $180, the duo agreed to sell her the device at a cut rate. But when McDowell drove home and opened the FedEx box containing the iPad, she instead discovered the wood with the Apple logo. The “screen”--which was framed with black tape--included replicas of iPad icons for Safari, mail, photos, and an iPod.
It also had what cops described as a “Best Buy sales ticket.” The phony iPad is pictured above in police evidence photos (click to enlarge). Zagg: The iPad's First Casualty. The Four And A Half Things Missing From The iPad 2. Did you hear?! There’s a new iPad. It’s called the iPad 2. Clever, right? It packs a faster CPU, more powerful graphics engine, a fancy magnetic cover, thinner casing, herp, derp and more.
It’s a fair upgrade from the original although it’s erroneous to call it revolutionary; evolutionary is more like it. In fact, there is still a fair amount of major features missing from the platform. Some of them are big enough to be dealbreakers, too. 1. It’s not that hard – just offer a similar experience to AirDrop, the file sharing system that will appear in OS X Lion. 2. 3. 4. You see, the iPad is still a computer, just one where the OS is hidden by a fancy skin and the experience is closely guarded by Apple designers. 4G – or rather what carriers are calling 4G – is still rolling out but the iPad 2 is taking a pass.
Apple may surprise with near immediate availability of iPad 2 next week. Breaking By Kasper Jade While media reports have shed considerable doubt on Apple's capacity to facilitate a full-scale launch of its second-generation iPad in the short term, AppleInsider has reason to believe that customers could be holding the new tablet device in their hands shortly after next Wednesday's press event. According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is preparing several of its operating segments to perform functions during the second half of next week that are representative of nothing short of a large scale, consumer-oriented product roll out (not just an announcement). And with official invitations to next Wednesday's press briefing clearly indicating a focus on iPad, these people believe at least one version of the refreshed device will be in transit to retail outlets during that briefing.
It should also be noted that the logistics of the WiFi iPad are similar to that of an iPod, rather than an iPhone or 3G iPad. Report details iPad 2 components, 5 million unit supply. By Daniel Eran Dilger Apple's iPad 2 will feature a better quality display, faster chips, separate CDMA and GSM versions, iPod touch-like dual cameras, and vendors will produce 4.5 to 5 million units in the first quarter, according to a new report from Taiwan. No Retina Display Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities has prepared a report indicating that iPad 2 won't get higher resolution screen this year, using the same 1024x768 of the original iPad. "The improvement of iPad 2 display," the report notes, "focuses on thickness and anti-reflection, not resolution. iPad 2 display module is 30~35% thinner than iPad 1 and it’s helpful for better form factor. "Thanks to anti-reflection, iPad 2 could have better sunlight readable experience and it's helpful for Apple to compete with Amazon's fast growing Kindle business.
"The most important reason why iPad 2 won’t have retinal display is yield rate of panel making. Faster, better, stronger RAM is also on the rise, the report says. Apple Proclaims The iPad is Delicious And More In Its Latest Commercial. Apple's New iPad in Production. Sculpt 123D iPad App Makes Sculpting Cool Again. I can’t decide whether or not Michelangelo would roll over in his grave or jump for joy if he saw this app. Then again, Michelangelo would probably faint from seeing a light bulb, so who knows how he’d react to tablet applications. In any case, the Sculpt 123D iPad app from Autodesk looks like a really cool way get your hands dirty with an art form that the majority of us have no experience with: sculpting.
You start with a basic shape, like a car or a person, and then get to use different tools to “sculpt” that shape into what you’d like it to be. The app also has stamps that you can adjust and add to sculptures. If there’s something you can’t find in the Sculpt 123D library, Autodesk has that covered too. The app lets you take a picture with your iPad and then stencil in the imagery on a sculpture.
Let’s say even though you’ve taken pictures and browsed through the shape library a billion times, you still can’t find what you need for this all-important sculpture project. Startup takes augmented reality to new heights. Here’s a confession: I’m not a fan of augmented reality. Drawing a layer of virtual information on the world around you is one of those ideas that seems like a lot of fun in theory — after all, what better way to feel like Tom Cruise in Top Gun than with your own heads-up display for the universe?
— but in practice, it’s really been turned into a gimmick. It’s mainly used for selling you stuff or doing other icky stuff, but rarely to actually make life better or more interesting. While all this means that AR could easily dismissed as a gimmick, however, I think I’ve seen something that could — perhaps — help things take a significant step forward. The Lab’s first game went live this week, called Ball Invasion (here’s a link on iTunes). The game’s fun enough, but really the excitement is all about the technology. That means it’s not just a camera with a layer placed over the top. So, they’ve managed to compress a complex technology into a form that can be used on a consumer device.
PC sales growth to be 'hit by Apple's iPad 2' | Technology. Bill Gates on the iPad. Brazil's $12 billion iPad deal is in trouble: sources. The billion dollar iPad hole in Microsoft’s bottom line « The Orange View. Yap.TV Turns Your iPad Into The Perfect TV-Watching Companion. Could There Be A Better Advertisement For The iPad?