Archive for: iPad

Galaxy Tab 10.1″ Sales Blocked In EU

As expected, foreseen and long coming; Apple has won the ruling in which they accused Samsung of imitating the design and functionality of its products, preventing sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 across most european countries. Sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the European Union (except the Netherlands) have been blocked after Apple [...]

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Apple Blocks iOS Developers That Installed iOS 5 on Non-Developer Phones

Apple has allegedly began blocking and canceling accounts of some iOS developers that have inappropriately sold they account device slots, allowing them to profit from the installation of iOS 5 on unauthorized non-developer iPhones and iPads. Some developers who sold their slots for UDIDs, the unique identification numbers associated with every iOS device, have been [...]

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Dashboard iPad app rejected by Apple, made open source instead

So you spend hours and hours toiling away on an app that adds some much-needed Dashboard-like functionality to the iPad (sort of, more on that later) only to have it rejected by Apple — what do you do? If you’re Hongrich, developer of the slightly problematically-named “Dashboard” app, you make it open source. Of course, you’ll have [...]

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iPad gets fitted into car dashboard, makes you an instant carpooling superstar (video)

Let’s face it, the Toyota Tacoma has a long way to go before being considered glamorous, or even remotely cool, but jacking an iPad into its console might be a good start. That’s what the good people of SoundMan Car Audio over in California have done with a little bit of elbow grease and knowhow, [...]

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Apple confirms Best Buy iPads at launch, what time you’ll need to be there

We’re nearly there. The mystical, magical iPad experience starts this Saturday, April 3, and if you haven’t already pre-ordered your only way to get one for the weekend is going to be to fight the rush at retail. Apple has confirmed that all 221 of its Apple Stores will have the wunder-tablets on sale, and [...]

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iPad roundup: New York Times and others get HTML5 video, iPad app store demo, and more

The momentum towards HTML5 and away from (or at least in parallel with) Flash seems to be accelerating with today’s launch of the free Brightcove Experience framework for HTML5 — a “way to publish, distribute, and monetize web video for the iPad and other Apple devices” according to the Brightcove press release. While Brightcove might [...]

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Pre-order iPad now, wait until April 12th for delivery

Consider this a friendly public service announcement care of our friends at TUAW. Those who coveted the iPad and pre-ordered anytime before today can still apparently expect a delivery by the original April 3rd launch date. Anyone that orders a WiFi model today, however, can expect to wait a little over a week, April 12th, [...]

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‘new’ iPad is the jumbo iPod you always wanted, coming April 3

Tired of all those “jumbo iPhone” jibes you keep hearing about the iPad? So are we, but there’s simply no other way to describe this priceless Shenzhen knockoff than as a supersized iPod. Featuring the unmistakable click wheel and what looks like some sort of riff on Apple’s Mac OS, the “new” iPad will be [...]

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Apple now accepting iPad app submissions, get your jumbo-sized beer drinking simulations in before launch day

Apple just announced to developers that it’s now accepting iPad applications. From the sound of it, applications submitted now will have a shot at being reviewed and approved before the iPad launch next month, though since most all apps developed so far have only been tested in the emulator, this is more of a “feedback” [...]

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Apple vs. Google gets personal: ‘Steve Jobs simply hates Eric Schmidt’ (video)

Image Credit: Daniel Adel, New York Times Nothing sells papers (or ads) like turning a little corporate competition into something personal. Case in point, a New York Times piece from the weekend titled “Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal,” that opened with this rather ominous, one-sentence paragraph: “It looked like the beginning of a [...]

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