As the iPad and other tablets grab more of consumers’ attention, so too are the devices attracting more of marketers’ money. Marin Software, which helps manage the ad campaigns of more than 1,800 advertisers and agencies, examined their spending in...
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App Report Shows Just How Fragmented Google’s Android Is
(Corrects the percentage of sessions from a year ago in the last paragraph.) We’ve known that the market for mobile devices running on Google’s Android software is fragmented. New research published today by app analytics provider Flurry shows just how...
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Apple's Sir Jonathan Ive displays his Knight Commander medal at Buckingham Palace in London today.
Design Guru Jony Ive’s Favorite Apple Product? The Next One
Apple design chief Jony Ive rarely gives interviews, but on the occasion of being knighted in his native U.K. today, the man who helped craft the iPhone and iPad talked with the Telegraph newspaper about the creative process and life...
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Ben Huh, of I Can Haz Cheezburger, challenges Buddy to a match of "You vs. Cat," a game that allows cats and humans to play together using the tablet.
IPad, Tablets Will Shape Market for Mobile Apps, Says Report
The so-called app economy could become more of an iPad economy, as the number of tablet users grows. That’s the takeaway from a report by Research2guidance, which looked at what the worldwide growth in mobile apps could mean for consumers...
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LinkedIn's new iPad app can pull in relevant information about the people you're meeting with.
LinkedIn Has an iPad App. Finally.
For a pioneering tech company, LinkedIn has been way behind in creating an app for the iPad crowd. In November, the issue elicited this comment on Quora: “It’s baffling to me for a company that seems to do so many...
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Apple has sold 67 million iPads in the two years it’s been on the market.
Apple CEO: You Can Merge Toaster, Fridge, But It Won’t Be ‘Pleasing’
On today’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked by Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi whether Apple would come up with some kind of tablet-laptop hybrid, so consumers would only need to carry one device. Cook, who is known...
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the Kindle Fire at a news conference last year.
Google’s Page ‘Quite Focused’ on Lower Ends of Tablet Market
Where does Google see its future in the tablet market? Try the bargain bin. Responding to a question about tablets during the company’s earnings call today, Google Chief Executive Larry Page said: “We definitely believe that there is going to...
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Microsoft's Arc Touch Mouse flattens when stored and can be curved when needed for use.
Where Microsoft Designers Found Inspiration for Silicone Mouse
When Young Kim was dreaming up his award-winning mouse, the industrial design manager for Microsoft found inspiration in an unlikely place: Crate & Barrel. The Arc Touch Mouse is a thin, black bar with a tail made of sueded silicone....
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Thermal images of the iPad 2, left, and new iPad show the difference in heat.
Consumer Reports Gets Torched Over iPad Temperature Test
Consumer Reports wasn’t the first publication to draw attention to the fact that Apple’s new (don’t call me No. 3) iPad can get a 116-degree fever when running graphic-intensive tasks. But that hasn’t stopped the 76-year-old magazine from taking the...
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Streaming HD movies to the new iPad on the go can be costly.
Why the New 4G iPad Isn’t the Ultimate Streaming Machine
Apple’s new iPad, with its high-resolution screen and option for 4G speeds, seems like the perfect device to stream high-definition movies on the go, right? Think again. The problem is not that the device, with its fast new processor and...
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