Students Design a Better Page Flip Experience for the iPad
Wow, students from the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence have done a beautiful job redesigning the page flip for the Apple iPad, and in the process they have created a real page turner – pardon the pun. The students created an interface that mimics how a person would flip through pages of a physical book along ...
iOS Ends 2011 with 52% of Mobile Web Browsing Market Share
Surprisingly, iOS ended the year with over 52% of the mobile web browsing market according to Net Applications. Apple iOS started 2011 with 54.07% of the mobile web browser market. Considering the recent news about Android activations I had expected to see a much larger share for the OS. Nevertheless, Android climbed from 12.75% to 16.29%, ...
Five Things That Apple’s Intelligent Assistant Siri Should Do
The potential that the intelligent assistant Siri represents in the Apple iPhone 4S is significant. The technology that powers Siri currently lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, take dictation and more. And if you haven’t already seen “Shit that Siri Says“, I would recommend checking out the site. ...
How to Improve Digital Subscriptions on the Apple iPad
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple and Time Inc. have finally reached an agreement to allow print magazine subscribers of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time to access iPad editions for free directly within the magazines’ apps. Both companies initially came to an agreement to allow subscribers of People to download the iPad version ...
Apple iPhone Stalking Provides Cool Visualization
Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan announced the discovery that your Apple iPhone, or 3G iPad regularly records the position of you and your device. How long has your Apple iPhone and iPad been collecting this data? It appears that ever since iOS 4 arrived in June of 2010 Apple has stored ...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Misses the Point with iPad and Job Loss
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr.was wrong when he stood before members of the House last week and, in his attempt to tackle job loss, said that the Apple iPad was “probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs.” While I will agree with him that Apple could produce the iPad in the United States, Representative Jesse ...
Apple iPad 2 in Black and White
Am I the only person who thought this Apple iPad 2 image was a bit racist? Apple, why does the young african-american need to be in the black iPad and the less ethnic young woman is in the white iPad?
Simply Powerful. Apple employees for the It Gets Better Project.
Apple employees share a personal message for the It Gets Better Project. A very powerful and caring video of individuals talking to young people that can’t picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. There is way to much bullying and hatred in this world. There should always be tolerance and understanding. ...
Deconstructing Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily: First Look
Today Rupert Murdoch and News Corp launched The Daily. Murdoch’s vision is to create a “transformative” publication on the iPad. Every issue will feature more than 100 pages of original content, original video content, 360 degree photos and more. The Daily is “created every day of the year with original content for the iPad”, with ...
One in Four Americans Will Have a Tablet Device by 2015
Yesterday Forrester published a revised forecast for U.S. tablet sales, predicting that the device will grow as quickly as MP3 players had. The initial numbers are staggering, as Forrester expects a total of 195 million tablet sales between now and 2015. They also predict that a majority of these devices will be produced by Apple. Media companies ...
