The Daily Stands By The iPad Office Pic And Story
Suite anticipation, said The Daily. The News Corp iPad mag broke the news this morning that Microsoft was about to submit its productivity suite to Apple for review. They even had a photo of the app running on an iPad to back up their claim — which they triple watermarked for some reason. The outlet [...]
This Is What Microsoft Office Looks Like On An iPad
We heard all the way back in November that Microsoft would launch an Office app for the iPad, and it would seem that the big day draws even closer. According to an unverified image captured by The Daily, a version of Microsoft Office for iPad was caught running on one of Apple’s tablets.
Now, we [...]
Leaked! Here’s The iPad 3?s Bulky Back Casing
The iPad 3 is still weeks away from being announced, but Chinese tech blog M.I.C.gadget managed to snag a back shell for the iPad 3 from “one of our most reliable sources.” As you can see from the pics after the jump the case is slightly thicker than the svelte iPad 2 back panel. The [...]
Photos of purported iPad 3 Retina display production, Samsung displays sighted
As the release of the next-generation iPad approaches, we’ve discovered some intriguing photos on a Chinese forum of an apparent iPad Retina Display production line. The forum posting contains some blurry spy shots of what it is calling the iPad 3′s 2048 x 1536 display, but perhaps more interestingly, has a photo of packed up Retina [...]
Daily Crunch: Rectangle
Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets:
Motorola Droid 4 Review: This Keyboard Rocks, But That’s About It
Review: The Playstation Vita, Sony’s Portable Powerhouse
More Backpedaling: Netflix Brings Back the $7.99 DVD-Only Plan
ProView Is Suing Apple Over The Rights To An iMac Clone
Foxconn Increases Wages, Raises Pay By 16-25% For Chinese Workers
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Purported Next-Gen iPad Display Caught And Examined; 2048×1536 Resolution Confirmed
MacRumors has done something very bad – they went and got themselves an iPad 3 display module. Actually, it’s not so bad when you can apparently just order one online. Normally this part even being online and available ahead of launch would suggest it was a scam, but what matters isn’t the name of the [...]
Bloomberg: FLA is finding ‘tons of issues’ at Apple supplier plants
Despite reports from Reuters earlier this week profiling Fair Labor Association CEO Auret van Heerden’s positive reaction to the early inspections of Apple’s suppliers in Shenzhen, China, Bloomberg announced today van Heerden’s comments actually “reflected his previous interactions with Foxconn.” In contrast to Reuters original article, during a phone interview with Bloomberg, van Heerden said, “We’re finding [...]
Actual iPad 3 production display placed under microscope, Retina Display confirmed
Macrumors claimed to have obtained one of the screens floating around on the Internet from iPad 3 production. Putting it under a microscope, the publication indeed discovered it has 4 times the pixels as an iPad 2 or double the horizontal and double the vertical, which yields 2,048-by-1,536 pixels.
Physically, the purported iPad 3 display is [...]
Report: iPad in the classroom raising kindergartners’ literacy scores
Apple began its full assault on education when it launched the iPad a few years ago. The iPad offers students apps and books that are used in the classroom to help students raise their test scores. While it is still on the way to seeing a larger adoption, Apple also introduced iBooks in January to [...]
Android app permissions – How Google gets it right …
And how we, the users, still need to take responsibility
There's been a lot of news lately about a lapse in either security or judgment — both, really — at Apple that allows iOS applications to borrow your contact data and send it off to parts unknown without your consent. Apple has addressed the issue [...]