Ipad News & Articles

A whole bag of Apple related news snippets have flooded in from various places today, as the company deals with the price of market success, app store shenanigans and the risk of being road-tested by those ultimate fuddy-duddies, British Parliamentarians. Oh, and something called the iPad 3 might be happening soon.

Apple has had a change of heart from its “we own your iBook content henceforth and forever and you’re going to like it” policy. Shortly after Apple published its iBooks Author EULA, a legion of technical journalists and copyright analysts digitally chastised the software giant as evil for locking authors into an agreement that would restrict them to selling content created with iBooks Author in Apple’s iBookstore.

At CES this year, one major trend is the shifting tablet scope toward pen computing. This term once sent shudders down the spine of any product development team, as "Pen Computing" was equated with handwriting recognition and that was spelled doom for early products such as the Apple Newton that used a pen, not touch, as the primary input. Now iPad Apps software maker Readdle wants to move back to the pen with its release of the new Remarks software that targets handwriting capture, note taking and PDF annotation.

Future Francis Ford Coppolas have a new option for producing movies on the go. Avid has released its home non-linear video editing software, Avid Studio, for the iPad. Will iMovie users be enticed to try it?

Virtually everything today is manufactured in China. While it used to be that gadgets, gizmos and other products were made in the U.S., Taiwan or a brand's home country, businesses are now outsourcing mostly to manufacturing facilities in China. Amid calls for offshored jobs to return to local soil, will China retain its advantage in this industry?

Aiming to be a bigger player in the mobile collaboration and data market, UI and UX company Infragistics has snapped up SouthLabs, the developer of SharePlus, a leading SharePoint-on-your-iOS/Android/BlackBerry smartphone client.

If you use your smartphone and tablet for work-related tasks, you're not alone. Enterprises are increasingly adopting "bring your own device" policies in the workplace. But as the mobile revolution takes over businesses, how sure are we of security and data integrity?

Apple is expected to break all records in its latest quarter with massive sales of iPhones and iPads, and the promise of more hot releases in the year ahead. The numbers are in and, with hopes of a $40 billion quarter, Apple demolished expectations with $46 billion in revenue.

Deck the halls with pads and tablets! It seems the recently concluded holiday season has resulted in healthy sales figures for tablets and e-readers. This has probably lined Apple's and Amazon's pockets with enough cash to last until next Christmas. Would you believe that tablet and e-book reader ownership doubled over the past holiday season?

The latest SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update from Microsoft came with a surprise for iPad users: Select mobile business Intelligence reports and scorecards can now be viewed via the Safari Browser running Apple iOS 5.

As expected, Apple's education event at the Guggenheim Museum brought forth new ways for students to read their classic texts in interactive, digital form. As usual, Apple also brought its own magic design skills to shake up the market with a new iBooks 2 and iBooks Author to help create a world of educational content.

Even if you aren’t an Apple fan, you have to admit the iPad is lust-worthy. Since its introduction in early 2010, consumer adoption of the device has exploded. Now, iPad use is growing in the enterprise. Apple’s iPad is lightweight, easy to use and snappy, making it almost the perfect enterprise mobility device -- almost.

Apple's Thursday event won't be a show-stopper in the usual iDevice sense, but early chatter suggests that the company may be about to revolutionize ebook creation. It could achieve this by launching a Garageband-like app to bring content-rich, Web-enabled, digital book creation tools to everyone.

While everyone else milled around at CES waving new products left, right and center, Apple is quietly getting on with the business of iPad and iPhone development. It also managed to sell rather more Macs than experts predicted.

Anyone who’s ever lugged a backpack full of textbooks across a large college campus has fantasized of a better way of transporting content to a lecture hall. Add a laptop, chargers and other ancillary electronics to the journey, and chances are that you'll be dialing your chiropractor in short order.

Update: Breaking news- Apple to announce its move into Digital Textbooks on Jan. 19

It’s now official. Apple will be hosting an “education” event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Thursday Jan 19 at 10 AM. Invitations were sent to select members of the press this week.

The invitation, which looks like a chalkboard, shows a profile of the New York City skyline with an apple wedged in its center. The text reads:

Join us for an education announcement in the Big Apple.”

The latest rumors suggest that Apple and a select group of textbook publishers will announce that students will soon be able to buy digital textbooks from the iTunes store.