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Sony Aims at Apple With New Gadgets

Portable devices to use iTunes-esque service

(Newser) - Sony is preparing to challenge Apple's dominance of the handheld gadget market with a slate of new portable devices. Sony's planned products include a cell phone that can download and play PlayStation games and an iPad-esque multifunction device that will be both an e-reader and portable game console.

Offered a Free iPad? It's a Scam
 Offered a Free iPad? 
 It's a Scam 
ATTN. FACEBOOK, TWITTER USERS
Mar 2, 2010 8:45 PM CST

Offered a Free iPad? It's a Scam

Con artists will dupe you, friends in bogus cell charges

(Newser) - If you spend much time on Facebook or Twitter, chances are you’ve been given the chance to get a free Apple iPad by signing up to test the product. And if you’re at all familiar with the Internet, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that it’...

Apple Considers 'Explicit' Section for Booted Apps

Developer-only category could mean restricted App Store area in future

(Newser) - Just days after Apple drew the wrath of the blogosphere for booting racy apps from its App Store, iPhone developers report a new “Explicit” category in its place. The move could mean the company is carving out a future place for some of the more than 5,000 programs...

Another E-Book Publisher Challenges Amazon

Hachette is third major house to push for higher, iPad-style prices

(Newser) - Hachette has joined Macmillan—and, seemingly, HarperCollins—in demanding control over the pricing of its e-books sold through Amazon, a move apparently sparked by Apple’s more flexible model for titles that will appear on its iPad. Hachette sent a letter to agents yesterday announcing it would seek an Apple-style...

Coming Soon: Another, Mac-Like Apple Tablet
 Coming Soon: Another, 
 Mac-Like Apple Tablet 
PER TECH RUMOR MILL
Feb 1, 2010 9:33 PM CST

Coming Soon: Another, Mac-Like Apple Tablet

Company was working on it as it developed iPad

(Newser) - Not sold on Apple’s new iPad? Well, if the tech rumor mill is correct (assuming it isn’t completely busted from the leadup to last week’s unveiling), “Apple is pretty far along on work on second tablet device,” MG Siegler reports for TechCrunch . “A bigger...

Steve Jobs: Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Is BS

Apple CEO slams Adobe, Google at company town-hall

(Newser) - Steve Jobs had some harsh words for Adobe and Google at a town hall-style meeting following the iPad's launch last week, Apple workers say. "We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business," Jobs said in reference to Google, a source tells Wired . "Make...

Amazon Caves to Macmillan
 Amazon Caves to Macmillan 
Feb 1, 2010 12:30 AM CST

Amazon Caves to Macmillan

Retailer agrees to raise prices for Kindle ebooks

(Newser) - Amazon capitulated to Macmillan today and will allow the publisher to set prices for ebooks available for the Kindle reader. Amazon has sold new releases and bestsellers for a flat rate of $9.99, which Macmillan considered too low. The tussle over pricing prompted the online retailer to suspend purchases...

MadTV Mocked Apple's iPad 4 Years Ago

2006 sketch parodied what new Apple tablet sounds like it is

(Newser) - Looks like the yucksters at MadTV have Steve Jobs beat by four years when coming up with dubious names for tablet computers. Thing is, when the comedians made a jokey iPad sketch, their gadget was actually what Apple’s new toy sort of sounds like: a feminine hygiene product. Complete...

iPad's Fatal Flaw: That Name
 iPad's Fatal Flaw: 
 That Name 
Jan 28, 2010 11:38 AM CST

iPad's Fatal Flaw: That Name

Women can't help thinking how absorbent it'll be

(Newser) - The name of Apple’s new tablet is already inspiring jokes, eye-rolling, and fretting among the business class, reminding many of a certain, umm, feminine product. Business Insider immediately declared the name “terrible,” and the Internet soon filled with snark. “How will it stand up to other...

McGraw-Hill's New Lesson: Don't Cross Steve Jobs

Publisher on the outs after CEO leaks news on TV

(Newser) - McGraw-Hill has been in the publishing biz for more than a century, but it got schooled in a modern business lesson yesterday: Beware the wrath of Steve Jobs. In his big iPad announcement, Jobs showed a slide of the publishers working with Apple on the new gizmo, but it had...

Apple Stunner: Why Stick With Overloaded AT&T for iPad?

Analysts decry decision, Verizon stock plummets

(Newser) - Apple shocked investors and dismayed consumers yesterday by announcing that the iPad would run exclusively on AT&T, even though the iPhone is already straining that network to the breaking point. iPhone users tend to gobble up twice the bandwidth that other smartphone customers use, and AT&T has been...

iPad Leaves Porn Connoisseurs Flat
 iPad Leaves Porn 
 Connoisseurs Flat 


OPINION
Jan 28, 2010 2:34 AM CST

iPad Leaves Porn Connoisseurs Flat

Size, content limits iPorn on iPad

(Newser) - The iPad looks unlikely to be changing the porn industry the way Internet-enabled computers and smartphones did—and not just because you need both hands to hold it. The device is designed to download from Apple's app store, the iTunes store, and the iBooks store, none of which are any...

Why I Hate the iPad
 Why I Hate the iPad 
opinion
Jan 27, 2010 5:51 PM CST

Why I Hate the iPad

No multitasking or cameras, for starters

(Newser) - Adam Frucci is definitely not a fan of the Apple iPad, and he runs down his reasons at Gizmodo. Here's a sampling:
  • No multitasking: "This is a backbreaker. ... I can't have my Twitter app open at the same time as my browser? I can't have AIM open at the
...

iPad Looks Like a Winner
 iPad Looks Like a Winner 
opinion
Jan 27, 2010 4:47 PM CST

iPad Looks Like a Winner

It's a 'dream screen for reading and watching,' says David Pogue

(Newser) - First things first: Apple hasn't given the iPad to any tech reviewers yet, so David Pogue warns against paying much attention to "hyperventilating" bloggers who love it or hate it. (Go here for an example.) Still, this thing shows definite promise, he writes. "It looks like Apple...

Apple Unveils the iPad
 Apple 
 Unveils 
 the iPad 
starts at $499
Jan 27, 2010 1:48 PM CST

Apple Unveils the iPad

Steve Jobs reveals the long-awaited tablet computer

(Newser) - It's out, finally. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad today, a tablet-style computer that resembles the iPhone, but larger. "It's so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone," Jobs said at the device's highly anticipated debut in San Francisco....

Apple Tablet Announcement Could Break Twitter

Some tweets already going out 4 to 5 minutes late

(Newser) - Twitter is already buckling under the weight of the massive buzz around Apple’s tablet. Ahead of the expected 1pm announcement, some tweets are already taking 4 to 5 minutes to post, Mashable reports. That sort of undermines Twitter’s “real-time” news appeal, on a day that promises a...

Apple Tablet Rollout Has Publishers Scrambling

War with Kindle to transform business

(Newser) - Book publishers were locked in last-minute talks with Apple ahead of today's unveiling of the tablet, which has been touted as promising to change the publishing industry as radically as the iPod did the music industry. The tablet's model for books, which puts it in direct competition with the Amazon...

Here's Hoping Apple Tablet Is Like a Car
Here's Hoping Apple Tablet
Is Like a Car
opinion
Jan 26, 2010 2:42 PM CST

Here's Hoping Apple Tablet Is Like a Car

Computers should be as easy to use as vehicles, appliances

(Newser) - Computers can do amazing things, but as anyone with a technophobic parent knows, they’re still way too complicated. That’s why Farhad Manjoo is hoping Apple’s new tablet will be “the first fully powered PC that is as simple to use as a kitchen appliance.” Sure,...

Apple Really Does Want to Save Old Media

Tablet aims to reinvent newspapers, mags as iPod did music biz

(Newser) - Apple thinks its new tablet could revolutionize print media and television the way the iPod revolutionized the music business. The company has been in talks with top book, magazine, and newspaper publishers, the Wall Street Journal reports, as well as television companies, to bring their content to the device. Unlike...

Apple to Unveil 'Latest Creation' on Jan. 27

 Apple to Unveil 
 'Latest Creation' 
 on Jan. 27 
whatever could it be?
Jan 18, 2010 12:27 PM CST

Apple to Unveil 'Latest Creation' on Jan. 27

Press invited to event and hope to see long-rumored tablet

(Newser) - You might not be on the invite list to grab a first look at what will likely be Apple’s rumored tablet device, but the Wall Street Journal is. The paper reports that it just received an invite to the Jan. 27 San Francisco event where the computer maker will...

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