The Internet spent Tuesday morning laughing at a suggestion by BlackBerry CEO Thorstein Heins that tablets won't exist in five years, a scenario that is as plausible as it is predictive — in fact, it's as exciting a plan for the future of gadgets as the one Apple built right under your fingertips.
Long portrayed as technologically aloof, the end of the comeback week gives us a portrait of Bush fully in thrall to consumer technology, leveraging the iPad not to check and respond to email but to express himself in art. Yes, he learned how to paint on an app.
While the cases of Aaron Swartz and Matthew Keys made them into even bigger heroes because of villainous sounding prosecutions and astonishingly long potential jail times, this harsh sentencing might make a champion out of a guy who, really, is just an expert pain in the online butt.
The woman pictured in that "selfie" shot above is the absolute goofball currently in possession of an iPad belonging to an Arkansas man named Allen Engstrom, and she will make you feel a little better if you've ever had a tablet lifted.
Despite the rise of the phablet and its friends, the battle of the very expensive tablets is very much upon us as Apple announced an $800, 128GB version of its iPad on Tuesday morning — less than two weeks before its enemies at Microsoft will launch a $900, 128GB tablet, the Surface Pro.
Maybe you got a new smartphone or tablet for Christmas, or maybe you're just re-stocking your device. Either way, these are the new essentials for your iPad, Android device, and, in all cases, your iPhone.
The iPad Mini's screen doesn't have the same "resolutionary" Retina display as its bigger brother, but don't worry: the Apple snobs appear to have gotten over that.
Now we know what "sold out" means: Apple says it sold 3 million iPad Minis and fourth generation iPads in 3 days, which it spins as record-breaking as "double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March." But it's not.
Now that Apple is all done making it's little-big announcements, we can confirm that our rumormongers were right about one thing: Apple now sells a mini version of the iPad.
A little over a week before its event, Microsoft accidently posted on its website (since now taken down) the prices for its new Surface tablets. At $500 for the 32GB model, it will run $100 less than the 32GB iPad 3.
Apple is totally psyching everyone out with its iPad Mini launch, for which the supposed release date keeps getting changed.
Beyond all the hype surrounding the pre-phone launch Apple store line-up ritual, when it comes to selling iPhones, Apple does a worse job than its retail partners, even with its meticulously designed stores.
We're not certain it is coming this month, but we might as well get ready now because "people with knowledge of the situation" claim Apple suppliers have started production of a "new tablet computer smaller than the current iPad," reports The Wall Street Journal's Lorraine Luk.
Yesterday's iPhone 5 announcement was the third Apple event this year that elicited a "meh" reaction, making it the expectation for the company of late.
Just as all hope was lost for flyers in the crusade to use gadgets during take-off and landing, American Airlines just got the Federal Aviation Administration's go-ahead to use iPads during all phases of flight. It seems unfair to passengers packing iPads, doesn't it?
Though the Federal Aviation Administrated is now looking into allowing gadgets during take-off and landing, flyers shouldn't get their hopes up.
This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place?
Apple has sent out invitations confirming its rumored iPhone (and maybe iPad) event this month with two telling numbers on it: 12 and 5.
This is a mess you don't want to be a part of: Hacker group AntiSec claims it has gotten a hold of FBI data that contained over 12 million Apple ID numbers linked with other personal information.
There is a rumor going around that Apple will have not one, but two events for the release of the rumored upcoming iPhone and iPad based on the idea that these two products are too big to share a spotlight. We won't know it's true until Apple says so.
One year ago today Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple anointing Tim Cook king of the iKingdom and by many metrics he has done a good job as leader of the gadgeteers.
Right in the middle of its design patent lawsuit fight with Apple, Samsung has released a new tablet that looks different from an iPad, but not different enough—at least by Apple's standards.
With the smaller iPad rumors looking as sure of a thing as an Apple rumor gets, the tech bloggers have started a fierce debate going about what the exact size, design, and screen resolution should be.
The way in which we got today's information and "information" regarding Microsoft and Apple's respective tablet projects teaches us something about each of these company's attempts to be secretive.
A montage of frustrated Google Nexus 7 owners struggling with opening their new tablets' packaging proves there is at least one thing Apple gets that Google does not: Boxes.
Though all Apple rumors should be taken with a huge pill of skepticism, the tidbit floating around today about a mini 7.85-inch screen iPad via The New York Times's Nick Wingfield and Nick Bilton is worth taking seriously.
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At this week's Google developers conference, which begins today and goes through Friday in San Francisco, the company will for sure release a tablet, but exactly what that tablet will look like is less certain.
The way the gadget review system works nowadays, tech experts get their hands on a device as soon as possible and churn out a review in time for its release, giving consumers a pretty narrow view of the latest thing if they actually need it.
Looking to (stealing from?) Apple, Microsoft went for a super-secret approach to its tablet launch and it's still paying off, with the Surface dominating today's tech rumor news.
The latest Barnes and Noble ad campaign for the new Nook Simple Touch with Glowlite speaks to that special, intimate relationship in our lives.
With Microsoft putting $300,000,000 into Barnes and Noble's Nook business, the Windows 8 maker just bought itself something that could come in handy with that whole iPad killer strategy it's got going on.
Discovered: Apple has a new way of getting customers addicted, exercise makes you smarter, females engage in homophobic bullying too and more extreme weather is on the way.
Going by way of Kleenexes and Band-Aids, the iPad has become the word people use when what they really want to say is "tablet."
With Apple's acknowledgment of some iPads have a Wi-Fi problem, we have confirmation that the problem isn't one of those made-up-by whiner iPad issues.
Google's hardware expansion plans into tablet world, like its social expansion plans into Facebook world, will probably fail.
Always hungry for new Apple news, some Apple bloggers have created Apple "news," making up faux iPad scandals to fill the iVoid.
iPads are often heralded as the future of newspapers and magazines, which may very well be true, but be sure to remember that journalism in tablet-form is still pretty young. Case in point: news apps on the iPad still make a fraction of the revenue that print circulation does.
All year long we get totally unsubstantiated, probably untrue Apple rumors, yet today's rumor has the techies particularly appalled.
Not even the gadget's winning feature has zero faults and the upgraded Retina display is most certainly the "Resolutionary" iPad's winning feature.
With the iPad selling like too-warm cakes (get it?!) and the expansion of 4G LTE networks we are all turning into very expensive super-users.
Even though tests have now confirmed complaints from batches of iPad owners about the overheating issue, Apple has decided it's a non issue because it still doesn't get too-too hot.
Apple announced Monday that they had sold 3 million of their new iPads in the opening weekend, blowing away the nearly 1 million iPad 2s they sold when that device launched last year.
With a weekend to play around with their new toy, early iPad owners have discovered some issues with the tablet.
After hearing what Mike Daisey had to say for himself on this weekend's retraction episode of This American Life, the Internet has had a moment to step back and think about what it all means for Foxconn, Apple, journalism and the cause of worker's rights.
After a mysterious Apple media alert had everyone guessing what Apple might do with its $100 billion, the company has decided to go the dividends and stock buyback route.
Today's an exciting day for Apple and its fans as the iPad made its debut this morning, but lets not forget that the iPad comes from a pretty dark place.
Five iPhones and three iPads in, perhaps we've seen it all. The lines forming outside the Apple store for tomorrow's iPad debut just aren't that exciting anymore.
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Apple TV got a makeover this week, too, but, unlike with the iPad, the revamped specs don't have reviewers delighted.
In preparation for tomorrow's iPad debut, some lucky techies got to test the thing out for more than just a few seconds, finding that the iPad is (SPOILER ALERT!) just as great as they'd expected.
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