By Christophe Dufourmantelle  As you may have noticed, a number of media sources are writing about the overall progression of iOS device sales and of the iPad in particular. The latter’s sales have developed to the point where their presence in businesses is becoming indispensable (see Looking into Enterprise iOS b... May. 10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 691 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The Justice Department is fixing to sue Apple, Macmillan and maybe
Penguin for antitrust maybe as soon as Wednesday by all reports.
The iPad-centered charges are supposed to be collusion and fixing the price
of that newfangled invention, e-books.
The DOJ essentially destroyed M... Apr. 12, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 681 |
By Shelly Palmer  Apple’s new iPad was named the best tablet computer in a ranking by Consumer Reports, two weeks after the magazine said the device runs “significantly hotter” than previous models. The new iPad’s high-resolution screen provides the best detail and color accuracy of all tablets Consumer... Apr. 5, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 751 |
By Javier Paniza  OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Development of Web Applications for iPad, well-suited for business and database oriented applications. OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in ... Mar. 28, 2012 11:33 AM EDT Reads: 413 |
By Bob Gourley  Let’s get started, I’m not in love w/ the new naming system for the iPad. “New” should never be in any products name, let alone a real piece of technology (will the next one be New New? or New and Improved iPad?). Ridiculous. Mar. 9, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,264 |
By Paula Cheung  We know everything about the new iPad but the name. After Wednesday’s hour-plus-long launch event in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cookies and team unveiled details about the company’s new tablet, simply calling it the “new iPad” throughout. Mar. 8, 2012 04:45 AM EST Reads: 592 |
By Ian Thain  This title may be an obvious statement to us all, but a lot of applications and therefore application developers on the Apple App Store seems to have lost sight of that fact. I believe that over 90% of these applications have the potential to be awesome on the best tablet device around... Feb. 2, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,334 |
By Ian Thain  I am already an avid believer of Mobility and Tablet computing in the Enterprise, so this week I decided to think about what could be achieved within Education. For the rest of my thoughts I will use my Converged Mobile Device of choice … the iPad. There is already a student web page o... Jan. 17, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,730 |
By Javier Paniza  OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Development of Web Applications for iPad, well-suited for business and database oriented applications.
OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in... Dec. 15, 2011 04:15 PM EST Reads: 1,173 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Apple can’t call the iPad the iPad in China.
A trademark infringement suit Apple filed after its application for ownership of two Chinese trademarks – iPad and IPAD – was thrown out of court.
The Chinese trademark office said a local contract manufacturer called Proview Technology ... Dec. 8, 2011 08:30 AM EST Reads: 1,847 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The Daily, a made-for-the-iPad start-up national news service that kicked off in February, claims it’s heard from anonymous sources that Microsoft is adapting Office to the iPad.
The blog puts the price at around $10, because that’s what Apple charges for its own iWork Pages, Numbers... Dec. 4, 2011 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,121 |
By Maureen O'Gara  DigiTimes says it’s heard from its redoubtable downstream sources that Apple has scratched the notion of iPad 3 being available this year maybe because Samsung and LG can’t get decent yields on a 2,048x1,536 9.7-inch “retina display” panel and Sharp’s are too expensive.
On top of whi... Aug. 20, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,571 |
By Dave Geada  There has been a great deal of press surrounding Apple’s launch of iCloud and the impact of this new service on consumer markets. Very little attention, however, has been given to the impact that this new cloud computing service will have on enterprise IT. If recent history is any indi... Jul. 18, 2011 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,819 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Reports of an Android tablet coming from Amazon this fall have graduated from DigiTimes to the Wall Street Journal, which heard that Amazon would put out a nine-inch camera-less iPad rival before October.
Apparently Amazon has outsourced both the widget’s design and manufacturing to ... Jul. 17, 2011 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,849 |
By Maureen O'Gara  iPad 3 rumors are back saying that the dingus will launch in September, six months early, to scare off would-be rivals. This time the Chinese-language Economic Times of Taiwan claims the device will have a screen resolution of 2560x1920, five to six times better than the iPad 2, and 3D... Jun. 26, 2011 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,942 |
By Javier Paniza  OpenXava is a tool for Rapid Java Web Development, well-suited for business and database oriented applications. Since v4.2 OpenXava also produces iPad Web applications that behaves and looks like iPad native applications.
OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple... Jun. 21, 2011 10:12 AM EDT Reads: 4,515 |
By Maureen O'Gara  A Chinese court has convicted three local guys who stole iPad 2’s blueprints to make counterfeits.
The two guys who stole the plans worked for Foxconn, Apple’s contract manufacturer. They sold them to a third guy for about $31,000 who built and sold knockoffs way before the genuine a... Jun. 17, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,616 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It’s not going to surprise anyone that Apple’s fiscal Q2 numbers were light on iPads given its obvious inability to meet demand, but what may surprise Google and its many Android followers was the surge in iPhone sales to 18.65 million units, a 113% jump in growth year-over-year, signi... Apr. 22, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,991 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Brazil, for all its bubbling BRIC status a notoriously hard place to do business with – harder still to repatriate money from – is anticipating that Apple’s iPad maker Foxconn will move there and start churning out the widgets by the end of the year.
This according to what the countr... Apr. 18, 2011 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,485 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Apple and its iPad are supposed to dominate the tablet market into 2015 when, according to Gartner’s crystal ball, its market share is supposed to drop from 69% this year and 64% next year to a mere 49%. Google’s Android is projected to garner 24% in 2012 and 39% in 2015, leaving 22% f... Apr. 17, 2011 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,790 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Despite nail-biting concern over possible component shortages because
of the Japanese tragedy – lately about whether it’ll have a steady supply
of batteries – Apple’s web site started forecasting iPad 2 deliveries in
another two-three weeks on Monday, better than the three-four week... Apr. 5, 2011 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,902 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Acer CEO and president Gianfranco Lanci has quit after an apparently profound disagreement with his board.
The world’s sometimes number two PC merchant warned Friday that its PC sales in Europe and the US were down 10% sequentially in the unfinished first quarter and that Q2 was like... Apr. 1, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,345 |
By Amitabh Apte  With the ever-increasing popularity and acceptance of tablets, ebook readers, etc., it is little surprise that the traditional form of paper books and it's ecosystem is coming under immense pressure to survive and remain profitable. How long will the paper book and related industries, ... Mar. 28, 2011 02:47 PM EDT Reads: 1,657 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Despite the fact that iPad 2 is in hysterically short supply in the United States – and apparently likely to remain so for at least the next month or so – and despite the fact that events in Japan have raised doubts about iPad’s component supply line – Apple put out one of its rare pre... Mar. 25, 2011 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,657 |
By Ian Thain  Here we are on the eve before of what will definitely be the next iPad Gold Rush... the iPad2. I expect to see this in the media, in various ways. Already I have been spotting articles of some dedicated folks staking claim, to the first place in line, at some Apple Stores and I expect ... Mar. 10, 2011 08:57 AM EST Reads: 2,707 |
By Ian Thain  I have been using Apple's iPad since it was launched and am totally hooked on using it whilst out on the road in a personal & business basis. So yesterday we had the announcement of Apple's iPad2 and I was glued, like most of the internet, to the live feeds etc. Firstly, I have to say ... Mar. 3, 2011 10:25 AM EST Reads: 3,359 |
By Ian Thain  Mobile applications and the Mobile Web are now part of our lifestyle, it is a fact. Ask yourself... Could you think of not having your device at hand 24x7? Now, I am not suggesting that folks are addicted to their devices, as addiction suggests 'total dependency, to the detriment of ev... Feb. 24, 2011 06:32 AM EST Reads: 2,556 |
By Ian Thain  The design cornerstone of the Sybase's MEAP the Sybase Unwired Platform is the Mobile Business Object (MBO). The MBO encapsulates the business process logic and data into a reusable unit that can be accessed from a variety of clients. The development can take two approaches, firstly t... Feb. 11, 2011 03:45 AM EST Reads: 5,859 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The latest tablet figures claim that shipments doubled sequentially in Q4
to 9.4 million units, up 120% from 4.4 million units in Q3, and that iPad
– which owned 96% of the market in Q3 – suffered a 21% share loss to
Android – up 2,000% – complements of Samsung purportedly getting o... Feb. 1, 2011 12:21 AM EST Reads: 2,200 |
By Maureen O'Gara  US tablet sales could double this year to 24 million units according to Forrester Research, which figures a third of the US online population, 82 million people, will own a tablet by 2015.
It suggests the widgets will be as disposable (or upgradeable, if you like) as cell phones, pre... Jan. 9, 2011 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,414 |
By Ian Thain  I have been using the iPad now since its launch and mostly in the last 6 months in a specific way. I am not a gamer, I am a part-time browser, but primarily I am a full-time Enterprise user. If you have been following me on Ulitzer, you would have already read that I use my iPad whenev... Dec. 1, 2010 05:00 AM EST Reads: 4,752 |
By Ian Thain  In fact to be correct today is the day that iOS 4.2.1 finally becomes public and brings in line the coolest Tablet, with the coolest Smartphone. Apple have already posted the upgrade graphic and link to the iOS 4.2 page on http://www.apple.com and reports have it that the upgrade will ... Nov. 22, 2010 10:41 AM EST Reads: 3,386 |
By Jody Sedrick  The Tablet PC market is heating up with new contenders entering the market to compete for your consideration. Apple has clearly set the bar and grabbed an early market share. The question is will other vendors throwing their hat in the ring have significant offerings to entice Tablet P... Nov. 10, 2010 02:46 PM EST Reads: 3,369 |
By Ian Thain  I am now only a few days away from speaking at a Sybase Nordic Roadshow, within the Mobility track and will once again be traveling light with just my iPad to use. So I thought it would be time to address the though of... 'Is the Laptop Becoming Less Attractive?'. I recently read a rep... Oct. 24, 2010 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,776 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Ahead of Apple saying how many iPads it’s sold so far when it reports its quarter Monday Gartner last Friday looked into its crystal ball and predicted that 19.5 million tablets will be sold this year, 54.8 million next year, 103.4 million in 2012 and 154.2 million in 2013.
Besides t... Oct. 19, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,446 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Wall Street, which has turned Apple into a giant bubble lately, figured it
must have sold at least 4.7 million, maybe even five million, iPads in the
September quarter.
Well, the punters were disappointed Monday when Apple, suggesting the
dingus was supply-constrained its first f... Oct. 19, 2010 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,691 |
By Liz McMillan  NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, introduced Apple iPad support for the NaviCloud AppCenter management console. IT organizations can now provision and manage NaviCloud resources using an iPad from anywhe... Oct. 18, 2010 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,982 |
By An Bui  A question I often think about is inspired by you – by the comments we get on the DocuSign Facebook Page and the conversations we have on Twitter as @DocuSign. What features of DocuSign’s electronic signature platform are you interested in?
To that end, I’ve looked at the ... Oct. 14, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,989 |
By Ian Thain  We have had a few months to get to grips with iOS4's release on iPhone. I am sure you are like me and could not live now without this release, with its UI features of folders and task switching as well as Apple's implementation of Multi-tasking. What I am also sure about is that, if yo... Sep. 30, 2010 11:39 AM EDT Reads: 5,570 |
By John Funnell  There is a war waiting to happen, reputations to be trumped, brands to be tarnished and consumers to be rewarded....with some choice!
After a six month monopoly, there looks like there's going to be some proper competition for the supposedly all conquering iPad; the tablet PC which ha... Sep. 27, 2010 11:23 AM EDT Reads: 2,645 |