After months of hand-wringing, of brow-furrowing, of deep existential angst on the topic of “What oh what is the iPad for?!?” we finally have an answer, and the answer, dear reader, is this: kitties.
Yes, the iPad has a purpose ...READ MORE›
For 80 years, baseball stats have been relegated to tiny, tedious logs in the back pages of newspapers, their visual drama about as exciting as a Yahtzee scorecard. That’s starting to change as data viz techniques wend their way ...READ MORE›
The upcoming iPad app is designed to deliver news in a new, interactive way. Can it challenge existing apps such as Flipboard and help return AOL to relevance?READ MORE›
The Ben the Bodyguard website making the rounds is a marvel of web design, and could betoken a new era of scrollable web comics. The app it's pitching pales in comparison. But does it matter?READ MORE›
Most marketers believe that the last thing they need is another media channel to consume their already limited resources. But native apps, especially those for tablets like the iPad, create a very rich opportunity for marketers to engage with consumers. READ MORE›
Google very casually announced today that iPad-compatible versions of Google Docs will be heading to Android and iPad soon. Could Docs upstage Apple's own iWork and make the iPad a true work machine?READ MORE›
Yahoo's new set of goals hit all the company's beats: A revamped Yahoo Mail, an iPad app, connected TV, better search, and more social networking. READ MORE›
The open-source, lightweight, plays-anything video and audio program VLC is finally coming to the iPad. This could mean a revolution in video and audio--but will Apple let it happen?READ MORE›
Verizon announces its plan to bring the full FiOS experience (including live TV) to the iPad and other mobile devices. Is this what traditional TV services need to fend off upstarts like Netflix and Hulu?READ MORE›
Flipboard, like Pulse before it, looks to take advantage of the iPad's power and size to show certain information in a new and fun way. This time, it's Facebook and Twitter feeds.READ MORE›
The iPad app Pulse, a slick-looking RSS reader, has achieved some impressive success and was even mentioned by Steve Jobs at Monday's keynote. The New York Times forced Apple to pull the app for bizarre reasons.READ MORE›
Magazine editors who've been playing around with Wired's iPad app this weekend might like to know that the Adobe software used to create it will soon be available for anyone wanting to develop a fabulous iPad app (memo to GQ digital ...READ MORE›
Some day I will learn to keep my big advice-giving mouth shut.About three years ago a developer friend of mine named Jiva DeVoe who had just designed an iPhone app that was a staff pick in the App store, emailed me for advice. “Whom ...READ MORE›
The United States government, or at least the governments of a few of its states, aren't about to let the launch of the iPad pass them by. Five so-called "eGovernment" apps launched alongside the tablet on Saturday.READ MORE›
The iPad as savior of print media is one of its most prominent narratives. So what have we learned from opening weekend? Are people spending money on news again?READ MORE›
We knew the iPad was going to be transformational mostly due to its app experiences and had heard opinions to that effect. Now Flurry finds developers flocking to the iPad at the expense of other platforms ... even the iPhone.Flurry ...READ MORE›
Apple popped the iPad's apps into the App Store today, a couple days ahead of the actual product's release--let's call it a preview (of how expensive iPad apps will be).READ MORE›
And now we have what could be the iPad's first killer app: Netflix, including Instant Watch. It's the start of Netflix on mobile devices, and a big coup for the iPad.READ MORE›
Apple's iPad arrives on Saturday, so it's only natural that the tech media's in a fit of excitement about the thing. But so are the platform's developers, and according to some analysis Apple's even distracting devs from other ...READ MORE›
Over the weekend a huge number of leaked images gave away what some of the first tranche of iPad apps will look like. Guess what? Everything we guessed about how exciting iPad will be has just been proved true--this thing's apps will ...READ MORE›
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