iPad
Summary
The iPad is a tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Apple primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. At about 1.51 pounds (680 grams), its size and weight fall between those of contemporary smartphones and laptop computers. Apple released the iPad in April 2010, and sold 3 million of the devices in 80 days. The second version, iPad 2, was launched in March 2011 and is expected to sell even more.
According to a report released by Strategy Analytics, the Apple iPad had gained a 95 percent share of Tablet PC sales at the end of second quarter 2010. During the second quarter 2010, Apple had sold 4.19 million iPads around the world.The iPad runs the same operating system as the iPod Touch and iPhone—and can run its own applications as well as iPhone applications.
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Content, function and purpose: Three lessons on mobile and tablet publishing for magazines from #PPAConf
Tablets and iPads were the main subject up for discussion at The PPA's Publising+ conference in London on Wednesday, with publishers looking for the quickest route to insuring themselves against further falls in print advertising and circulation revenue. Here are the three main takeaway lessons...
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10 winners and losers in media. And 3 things every publisher must have…
In the clockwork orange world of UK publishers (and their peers around the world) trying to get to to grips with what they hope is their digital future, it is easy to believe that good times are just around the corner. But they’re not:.
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Peter Kirwan’s Long View: Why developers will build the future of the content industry
Content business need re-imagining for a multiplatform digital world - but to do that they need talented, expensive developers and technologists who understand editorial and technology challenges. How best can companies attract and keep the best developer talent, and how does the traditional publishing mindset need to change to accommodate them?
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When is a website not a website? For Talking Points Memo, the turning point was in 2012
It was something that had been bouncing around in his head for a while, but only then was he sure: It was time to formally deconstruct the idea of TPM as a website first — even though it was a website first, some 12 years ago when he started it.
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A new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching
Miguel Hernandez, the founder of a company specializing in explanatory videos for startups, said he spent about three hours a day for three weeks making an online video course explaining his craft. But, last year, that one video series earned him nearly six figures on the online course platform Udemy.
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Great technology — however cool — isn’t always enough
On the surface, Plastic Logic had it all. When the British company first emerged 12 years ago, it looked as if it could become a technology giant: after all, it was spun out of one of the world’s great universities, staffed by amazing engineers, and owned a killer product — electronic displays that could be printed on plastic as thin as a credit card.
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Best Buy offers the iPhone 4 for $49.99 as rumors heat up about this fall's launch of the iPhone 5
I have to admit that I like my new phone plan: each year my wife and I get new iPhones and we then pass down the old iPhones to the kids. Everyone seems happy with the plan, especially AT&T, who keep up locked in. But how does Apple, and the retailers, break through the cost of a new iPhone and encourage new customers to take the plunge?.
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Pottermore adds Kobo as a Harry Potter e-book partner
Pottermore has partnered with Kobo to make the Harry Potter e-books available on Kobo devices.
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Apps Rush: London 2012 Official Join In App, Schemer, Facebook Pages Manager, Score! Classic Goals and more
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG for short) has launched its first app: an official guide to joining in this summer's sporting celebrations. That means event listings, the route of the Olympic torch relays, maps and updates during the Games. It's iPhone at the moment, but I'd suspect Android and maybe other platforms will be following shortly.
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Viacom resolves Time Warner Cable dispute
Viacom Inc. , owner of the Paramount film studio and MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, agreed to resolve a legal dispute with Time Warner Cable Inc. , letting cable customers see its shows on more devices. “All of Viacom's programming will now be available to Time Warner Cable subscribers for in-home viewing via Internet protocol-enabled devices such as iPads,” the companies said Wednesday in a joint statement posted on Viacom's website.
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Karl Rove's evil genius breaks 'Obama's Promise' | Paul Harris
The new ad that attacks Obama from Rove-founded Super Pac Crossroads GPS is unfair, of course, but fiendishly effective.
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Flipboard + public radio could be a killer combo
“Want to keep mobile users engaged longer?” I wrote a year ago. “Just add audio. ”.
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Social magazine app Flipboard adds audio
Social magazine app Flipboard has added audio, allowing users to listen to a podcast, an interview or music while flipping through the pages of the app.
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