Shipment figures have been released for the last quarter of 2011 revealing a healthy year’s business for Apple’s iPad,with global sales doubling, but with the haunting spectre of accelerating Android tablet sales.
Google has declared itself pleased to be launching a ‘significant redesign’ for their Google Search for iPad application, and have released a plinky-plonky video showing off its new features.
Launching in the US on Saturday – but with no UK release scheduled - early reviews of Amazon’s ground breaking new $200 Kindle Fire tablet have been coming in, with most critics impressed at the abilities of the budget Android-powered package.
It seems that the iPad’s near-total dominance of the tablet market is fading fast, with a new report showing that sales of Android slates soared in the last quarter at the expense of Apple.
It’s taken so long to saunter into the App Store that we suspect some iPad users were starting to take it personally, but the official Facebook app is now finally ready for downloading.
There’s no question that the iPad is proving to be one of the best gaming platforms out there, and our resident iPad expert Mrs Quoad has compiled a listing of the very best games available.
We’d rather punch ourselves in the face than give any money to News Corporation, but UK-based iPad fans wanting to read what Rupert Murdoch has described as his “No. 1 most exciting project,” can now buy a subscription to The Daily electronic newspaper.
The BBC is extending the reach of its fabulous iPlayer service, with Apple iPad users in 11 other countries across Europe able to soak up the glory of the Beeb – but at a price.
British Library has launched a new app for the iPad which lets readers flick their way through thousands of historic publications from their vast archives.
Finding themselves not mindful to hand over thirty per cent of their revenues to Apple, The Financial Times has launched a sophisticated HTML5 Web app that lets users access and subscribe to their content on tablets and smartphones.
It’s been commonly believed that the massive growth of the iPad has had a detrimental impact on PC sales, but a new study by market research firm NPD Group screams “Yah boo sucks” to the whole notion.
Now nestling in Apple’s voluminous App Store is three shiny new Adobe iPad Photoshop apps, going under the names of Color Lava, Eazel, and Nav.
We keep getting asked about the disadvantages and advantages of these two competing platforms, so here’s a short and sweet response.
Another iPad2 render/leaked photo/wild guess/Photoshop odyssey has just exploded onto the web and from this our team of experts have worked out some definite facts about Apple’s eagerly awaited tablet update.
Scroll on for our definite three-point listing of the guaranteed features we’ll be seeing in the iPad2:
As part of our job, we’re tasked with rummaging around finding interesting nuggets of information, hot news and exciting launches to share with you, but when an Apple product launch is due something rather strange happens.
Normally sensible sites and intelligent writers become gripped in a bizarre frenzy which compels them to post up a stream of wild guesses, source-free flights of fantasy, vague hunches and daft yarns based on the most speculative of claims, and shunt all this fiction into their ‘news’ sections.
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