• Designing Accessories for Smartphones and Tablets

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    As smartphone and tablet use increases, the opportunity for a wide range of accessories and App-based accessories ("appcessories") is growing - and it's more than just speaker docks. Learn about the latest trends, and the wide range of accessory solutions...
  • Why McDonald's in-Store iPad Test Won't Roll Out Chainwide

    An experiment McDonald’s has been testing in Europe has now made its way to the states: a new Virginia Beach, Va., restaurant in the chain has installed iPads at tables that patrons can use free of charge. This is a stunt that’s gotten the chain some…
  • Double — Wheels for your iPad

    Double is the simplest, most elegant way to be somewhere else in the world without flying there. The minimalist design and intuitive touchscreen controls allow you to freely move around without inconveniencing others. You can stay at eye level, whether…
  • Where to watch the London 2012 Olympics live online & on your mobile device

    All eyes are on London these days, where athletes of the world are getting ready to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games. And there’s some good news for sports fans: Not only are the main competitions scheduled to happen during times when most of us in North…
  • Apple's Cook hints at upcoming iPhone 5... or something

    Apple management still isn't talking about the timeline for the arrival of an iPhone 5 , but the company dropped a broad hint that past would be prologue. There has been a flurry of iPhone 5 rumors of late but Apple, which is famous for not talking about…
  • iPad Mini to debut in September, says analyst

    Apple's alleged iPad Mini could see the light of day before the end of September, says KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a report released yesterday and covered by MacRumors, Kuo said he expects the new iPhone to debut in September, possibly near…
  • Apple Settles iPad Trademark Dispute With Chinese Company

    HONG KONG — A Chinese provincial court said in a statement on Monday that Apple had settled a lawsuit there by paying $60 million into a court-approved bank account for the legal rights to use the iPad trademark in China. “It was done last week, and it…
  • Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete

    Microsoft has guts. It's what you get when you're the underdog; either that or you curl into a RIM and die. Microsoft is the underdog because no matter how many hundreds of millions of people use its software, the cool and the future belong to Apple …
  • Apple Maps to be powered by TomTom

    SAN FRANCISCO: In-car navigation firm TomTom said it has inked a deal to provide map information to Apple, which a day earlier introduced its own mapping service for iPhones and iPads . "TomTom has signed a global agreement with Apple for maps and related…
  • New iPad App 123D Catch Turns Pictures Into Printable 3-D Renders

    123D Catch Autodesk Autodesk, one of the premier 3-D printing companies out there right now--they make AutoCAD, the pioneering software--has a new app out for iPad that aims to make 3-D printing easier. Just snap a bunch of pictures of the object you…
  • Infographic Asks Which Came First: The iPhone Or The Android

    Some debates just never seem to have a clear winner: Mac vs. PC, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, Ford vs. Chevy, Tastes Great vs. Less Filling, iPhone vs. Android. Debates have ranged among various fans and factions on these sorts of topics for ages – or, in…
  • iPad App Helps Kids With Autism Communicate

    The older brother of a child with autism has released an iPad app designed to be a communication and therapy tool for people with autism. AutisMate allows you to add your own pictures, videos and voice recordings to the app. The goal: to create visual…
  • Five Ways to Solve the 4G/LTE iPad Data Consumption Dilemma

    The new 4G/LTE iPad has only been on the street for a week, and already there are complaints and horror stories of voraciously burning through data plan bandwidth caps. People who are used to 3G speeds are shocked when the 4G/LTE iPad eats the data allotment…
  • New iPad Overheating? Apple Responds To Allegations As Consumer Reports Investigates

    Apple probably wanted its newest iPad to be thought of as a hot item, but not like this. Over the weekend, reports began to circulate that the newest iPad, just released on Friday , was becoming physically hot to the touch during use, specifically in…
  • LAU School District’s Common Core Technology Project Stumbles Out of the Gate

    I would have loved a tablet when I was his age... (via LAUSD ) Earlier this month (October 2013), the Los Angeles Unified School District unveiled their ambitious proposal to introduce a series of tools designed to raise academic standards needed for…
  • Apple launches 4G capable iPad

    From New Tech Press Apple's third generation of the iPad (imaginatively titled "iPad") was revealed today in San Francisco featuring a remarkably sharper screen and faster processing thanks to a quad-core GPU and a dual-core processor. A larger battery…
  • CES 2012 Viper SmartStart, remote vehicle control

    iPad running the Viper SmartStart app (via my pictures at CES 2012) The technology shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show has a tremendous amount of security innovations alongside the typical gadget heap, and Viper (car alarm systems) is not to…