Facebook’s messenger app caused a lot of waves in the iPhone app community. What’s not to like about its one-to-one communications messaging, group chat functionality, push notices, mapping out friend locations, and other nifty functions? Facebook is now bringing the app to the iPad. The only difference is that it will be a larger version. [...]
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Consumer watchdogs slam iPad ads as misleading consumers regarding 4G
Australian consumer watchdogs have been having a field day with Apple’s claims regarding the iPad’s compatibility with 4G. Apple is claiming that its latest tablet update “supports” the wireless data standard even though it is not compatible with all networks using the next-generation standard. Things got so bad that the consumer-electronics giant was forced to [...]
Microsoft aims to eat into iPad market share with $300 tablets
One of the biggest disadvantages Apple’s iPad has is its price. Weighing in at a whopping $499, the iPad is extremely popular but its hefty price tag does offer a strategic foothold for competitors looking to bite into its daunting 70% share of the world tablet market. Enter Intel and Microsoft. Both companies have been [...]
Cisco Jabber software makes it to iPad platform
Cisco has upgraded its Jabber Instant Messaging and also upgraded its large-scale telepresence systems in its bid to become a bigger player in the enterprise collaboration market. In addition to the upgrades to Jabber, Cisco plans to roll out the first iteration of Jabber for the iPad. It will also roll out an upgraded version [...]
Windows 8 counters New iPads Retina Display
The new iPad’s retina display feature was greeted by a lot of excitement by the technology press. However, there is a key problem Microsoft’s OS has to overcome with the new display, the newest iPad is just one product with one resolution. Microsoft’s answer to the challenge posed by Apple’s new display is that Microsoft’s [...]
Apples iPad rakes in 3 billion app downloads
It’s no surprise that iPad users have just reached the three billion mark in app downloads from the App Store since launching in April 2010. It is, after all the most phenomenal success in the Apple product stable. According to ABI Research, it took the iPhone two years to hit the same level of app [...]
Apple App Store Hits Record Downloads as Sales Surge
Users of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad tablets are downloading record numbers of apps and spending more for each. Apple announced today it has registered over 15 billion applications downloaded from its App Store. The Cupertino computer company, through Phil Schiller, Vice President for worldwide marketing, issued an appreciative statement thanking its developers “who have [...]
Skype Chat Optimized for Apple iPad Brings Apples Closer to Microsoft
IT Industry analysts have been quick to pick up the latest Skype developments as pushing Apple increasingly closer to be part of Microsoft’s Window Live. Skype, which recently released a video chat app specifically optimized for Apple’s iPad, will also be making it available in the iTunes beginning Tuesday. It just so happens that Skype [...]
MacBook Air Positioned as Apple’s New Flagship Mac
The MacBook is Apple’s past and the MacBook Air is its future. This truism couldn’t be more evident than with the recent updates going into the next iteration of the company’s ultimate Mac computer expected to run the next generation Mac operating system, the OS X Lion. Industry pundits have observed that the Cupertino company [...]
Apple’s iAd: Off to a Rocky Start?
It seems that the hottest ticket to the marriage of technology and advertising is the iAd, a mobile advertising proposal backed by Apple for its iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone line of devices. As always, it seems that every time Steve Job’s company releases a new product or service, everyone’s in a mad rush to [...]