CNET and E! Online co-founder Kevin Wendle and MusicNation and Original Signal co-founder Daniel Klaus have some money to throw around and they are looking for some talented app developers to catch it. The team of two have formed AppFund, a new company designed to help entrepreneurs create and launch iPad-based apps.
“We believe that the [...]
Panelfly’s iPhone comic book app sports a “patent pending narrative navigation engine,” or as we like to call it, a really solid UI that gives users a great comic book experience on such a small screen. That’s just it though, the iPhone and iPod touch have small screens and there is little more that can [...]
tipb reports: While much of iPad presentation thus far has been focused on content consumption, Apple’s iWork demo and the ability to run iPhone productivity apps — and eventually iPad-specific apps — as well as 1024×768 web apps means it’s got a fighting chance in business, especially key verticals like medicine, and with developers like [...]
Venturebeat writes: Apple broke with the consumer electronics industry’s accepted wisdom by designing its own processor chips for the upcoming iPad tablet computer. In the past, Apple persuaded Intel to build a custom central processor chip for its super-skinny MacBook Air. But iPad design goes one further by bringing the chips in-house, using the talents [...]
Stephen Colbert messes with Jay Z at the grammys and reads the nominations from his new iPad.
The iPad OS (iPhone OS 3.2) contains hooks to accept and decline video conference, flip a video feed (suggests front facing camera), and view video calls in fullscreen or partial screen, reports Engadget. Partially screen video calls would suggest some type of multitasking; however, none of these features will be present in the first version [...]
When asked why people would buy an iPad iBooks book for $14.99 rather than an Amazon Kindle book for $9.99, Jobs said the books would be the same price, and further said publishers withhold books from Amazon because they’re not happy about the price. (Could be referring to Apple’s standard 70/30 split which Amazon just [...]
Joe Hewitt, who developed the awesome Facebook 3.0, but controversially (and some would say detrimentally) left the iPhone platform before Facebook 3.1 over the App Store review process, has come out extremely positively about the iPad:
iPad is exactly the product I’ve been wishing for ever since I wrapped my mind around the iPhone and its [...]
The 3G version of the iPad is unlocked, so if your carrier supports micro-SIM, it should “just work”. Wait… what? Steve Jobs dropped the micro-SIM comment so matter-of-factly during the iPad introduction that it took us a moment to process — Micro-SIM, aka 3FF or 3rd generation SIM card.
