United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL) is ditching all that paper in the cockpit and replacing flight manuals and aeronautical navigational charts with electronic versions on Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPads. The airline has ordered 11,000 iPads that it plans to put in the hands of...
U.S. retailer Pacific Sunwear (PacSun) is deploying Global Bay Mobile Technologies’ iPad retailing solution in 300 stores nationwide, with plans to add another 100 stores through the rest of the year. The retailer, which caters to the youth demographic, said the technology will help...
I have a confession to make, I’m a history buff. I’m a sucker for historical novels, love a good period drama and, probably most importantly, I read history when I was at university. So it’s really no surprise that as soon as the HP...
Warsaw Business Journal | August 18, 2011
Despite its hefty price tag, Apple's tablet computer, the iPad, is making waves in Poland. It is now the most widely-used device for mobile browsing.
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The trial production of Apple Inc’s iPad 3 will begin in October, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal which says Apple is already working closely with its component suppliers and manufacturing partner in Asia.
The WSJ said Apple had already completed its...
There was another twist in the iPad vs Android punch and counter-punch today as a consumer survey indicated that 94.5% of respondents were interested in purchasing Apple's ubiquitous iPad over an alternate tablet device.
Analyst comments are pouring in following Google Inc.’s (GOOG) somewhat out of left field announcement that it would make Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) it’s largest acquisition target yet to the tune of $12.5 billion. And virtually everyone sees the move as a...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Last week, the Android tablet community was rocked by aggressive patent-protection actions taken by Apple Inc. (AAPL)...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
According to a study by ABI Research published today Android tablets have already dented the iPad's market share to the tune of 20% over the last twelve months.
Last week Apple persuaded an Australian court to ban sales and promotion of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now a court in Germany has also sided with Apple, resulting in an Europe-wide ban on sales of the device.
DigiTimes | August 5, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Adam Hwang
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has set a contract-bundled sales goal of 100,000 tablet PCs, including iPad 2, in the Taiwan market in 2011 but sold only nearly 20,000 units in the first half of the year.
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Reuters | August 3, 2011 | Alice Baghdijan
Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe could all be lurking on your iPad if you download a new application launched by the British Library this week which provides access to over 45,000 historical and antiquarian titles.
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Apple Inc. (AAPL) opened up the iCloud.com interface for developers yesterday and revealed pricing for the service that will launch this fall. Apple plans to offer users up to 5 GB for free and will charge $20 for 15 GB, $40 for 25 GB...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) opened up the iCloud.com interface for developers yesterday and revealed pricing for the service that will launch this fall. Apple plans to offer users up to 5 GB for free and will charge $20 for 15 GB, $40 for 25...
The ongoing patent lawsuit between Apple and Korean electronics giant Samsung has put a ban on sales and marketing of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, following a court ruling.
Reuters | August 1, 2011 | Lee Chyen Yee, Clare Jim
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three...
While it's no surprise that Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad came in first place in a U.S. customer-satisfaction survey from IHS Inc., the fact that China's Shenzhen Zenithink Technologies Co. Ltd. came in at a close second was unexpected.The survey, which polled 1,400...
The Boston charity boxing match put on by Haymakers for Hope in June raised $200,000 for Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund, which finances pediatric cancer research. But rather than handle the donation legwork itself, the nonprofit group used 19-year-old Nate Drouin's fundraising website,...
Google has begun experimenting with a more tablet hugging search page, according to reports.
The search engine giant apparently realizes that when it comes to serving up content on a slew of different devices, one size definitely does not fit all, and is therefore redesigning...
Apple is looking to cut slices out of its iPad 4 bill of materials (BOM) by looking to cheaper Taiwanese integrated circuit designers according to local source DigiTimes.
According to the Taiwanese tech daily, Apple is weighing up its options to extract more profit from...
The World Bank has been in the news rather a lot recently, and not always for the most salubrious of reasons, but the global financial institution seems to want to clean up its image and make itself more transparent to citizens everywhere. How better to do this than with a mobile app? Or, in the World Bank's case of overkill, six iPhone/iPad apps, with a promise of "more great mobile applications" to come.
