Tag Archives: iPad

A new Kindle

Amazon announced this week that they have a new and improved Kindle ebook reader and will begin shipping them in about one month to about 100 countries. If you have read any of my past posts regarding the Kindle, you know that I am not a big fan of the device. However, I am slowly starting [...]

Blackberry tablet in the works?

Blackberry maker, Research In Motion (RIM) may be working on a tablet product to directly compete with the Apple iPad. There isn’t too much information out there about this potential product, except that it will have a slightly smaller screen than the iPad and some other specs that I won’t mention because everyone seems to have [...]

For the guy who has everything…

 
There is one product out there that is generating a lot of buzz and millions of sales that is mainly useful for the person who has everything. That product is the Apple iPad. The iPad has sold over 2 million units and the pace does not seem to be slowing down. The product itself is [...]

Business lessons from Steve Jobs

Business lessons from Steve Jobs

This week is the D Conference which is the All Things Digital conference. Many of the top CEO’s and companies in the tech industry are interviewed and featured during the event and there are none more influential than Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. He had an interview at this conference where he discussed many issues, some [...]

Dell making a tablet push

Dell Inc., one of the world’s largest PC makers and technology companies will be launching a tablet product called the Dell Streak this summer. It will first be sold in the UK (next month) and then in the U.S. later in the summer. This decision to debut somewhere other than the U.S., where its headquarters are [...]

iPhone and iPad in the news

iPhone and iPad in the news

On Monday, reports came out that Google’s smartphone software/operating system called Android has been outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter. Although this sounds like a big blow to Apple, especially since it was beaten by 7% it isn’t a true battle. The Android is only an operating system and is used in about [...]

iPad outselling iPhone

iPad outselling iPhone

I have a very good question for everyone today: Who is buying the Apple iPad?
Apparently 1 million people have already bought the iPad and it has only been out for 1 month. This is a much faster pace than the original Apple iPhone had when it was first introduced. What makes these figures even more shocking [...]

Steve Jobs tears in to Adobe

Steve Jobs tears in to Adobe

On Thursday, Apple CEO and one of the most admired and respected executives in the world, Steve Jobs took time to write an open letter to software maker Adobe Systems Inc. The issue revolves one of Adobe’s software products, Flash which everyone uses on their computers to watch videos, play certain games and view a [...]

Apple iPad, did it meet the hype?

 
On Wednesday, Apple unveiled their much hyped tablet called iPad. There was so much hype and anticipation for this announcement that it was almost impossible to meet it, let alone exceed it. Before I get in to my thoughts on this new iPad I want to voice my displeasure with something surrounding the announcement itself. For [...]

Amazon pre-empts Apple

Amazon.com announced Wednesday that it would give more money to small, independent authors and publishers that use the Kindle Digital Text Platform and sell their books through the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. They agreed to pay authors almost twice as much, up to $6.15 for a book that sells $8.99, not too bad. There are terms [...]