The release of the iPad mini may have captured the attention of many today, but Apple’s real surprise at the press event was the debut of the iPad 4th generation. It’s just six months since the last model hit the streets, and it will have left many pulling their hair out now the latest model…
Blurb to offer ebooks for the iPad
An Open Letter from Blurb‘s CEO Hello Customers, Partners, and Friends, This is only the second time I have written one of these open letters, so I guess it takes something special to get me to put pen to paper, or in this case, fingers to keyboard. Recently, I was rummaging around on my hard drive for…
Amazon Tablet To Be Revealed This Week
Image via CrunchBase (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc, which revolutionized reading with its Kindle e-reader, is expected to unveil a tablet computer next week that analysts say will seriously challenge Apple’s market dominating iPad. Amazon on Friday invited media to a press conference to be held in New York next Wednesday, declining to provide further details. But…
iPads in the Classroom in Ireland
Image via Wikipedia County Mayo in Ireland is set to take the lead in introducing ereaders to the classroom. St Coleman’s College in Claremorris, Co Mayo, will introduce the Apple iPad this September to all of its 90 first year students on an optional basis instead of students lugging heavy school bags filled with books.…
Leaner, Meaner and Faster iPad 2 Unveiled by Apple
Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, today unveiled the second generation iPad 2 at a press launch in San Francisco. The new iPad 2 tablet is a completely new model rather than just a revamp or improvement on last year’s device. The iPad 2 will ship in the US from March 11th, and worldwide in 26 countries…
iPad 2 Set To Be Unveiled March 2nd
According to a number of technology sites, Apple has begun sending out industry and press invites for an event on March 2nd with a growing consensus that it will be the announcement of Apple’s iPad 2 generation. Gizmodo speculate on what new features the 2nd generation iPad device might have. The event will take place next…
iPad Launches in Ireland with…Beer Droop
Ok, so this Friday, the Apple iPad becomes available to purchase directly by Irish customers along with eight other countries. This is Apple’s main page in Ireland. Thanks, Steve, we’re chuffed, for the launch in Ireland, and the flaccid penis it is after a night on the beer. Hip-hip…I can’t be bothered – April seems so long…
FT Article and Jamie Byng’s Incredible Shrinking iPad
Yesterday’s edition of the Financial Times ran a piece by Feargus O’Sullivan entitled, ‘Publishing industry holds breath over electronic books’. The thrust of the piece is that the arrival of ebooks and reader devices like the Kindle and iPad are causing the biggest upheavel in the publishing world since the Gutenberg invented the printing press. The genteel…
Apple Sell 3 million iPads in 80 Days
Yesterday Apple announced that it had sold three million iPads in the eighty days since the launch of the device in the USA. From the press release: Apple® today announced that it sold its three millionth iPad™ yesterday, just 80 days after its introduction in the US. iPad is a revolutionary and magical product that…
What Price The iPad Now in China?
One news item carried in much of the mainstream press this week has been the series of suicides committed by workers at Foxconn Technology Group who operate a number of production plants in Asia. For the most part, this week, the publishing world and technology media sites have focused on the launch of the international…