Two recent Apple introductions – iTunes LP & Apple TV – are interesting technologies but have failed to wow customers. The main reason for this has been a lack of content. Only a tiny number of albums are available as iTunes LP releases. And Apple TV is crippled by the paucity of content on it. […]

McGraw-Hill’s CEO Terry McGraw confirmed (or spilled the beans) some details on Apple’s upcoming Apple iPad computer. In an interview with CNBC, McGraw says that the Apple Tablet is very exciting, will run iPhone OS and that it will be great for textbooks: “Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked […]

This video of the rumored Apple iPad has turned up on YouTube, and has a lot of people wondering if it’s the first video of Apple’s new tablet computer. Screams fake to me, though. Let me know what you think! Real or iFake?

All Things Digital is reporting that Apple has bought mobile advertising platform company Quattro Wireless for $275 million. Why is Apple buying a mobile advertising company? Here are four possibilities: Free ad-supported iPhones – Steve Jobs recently applied for a patent for an ad-supported operating system. Combine that with the purchase of a mobile advertising […]

Steve Rubel wants to know what’s up with all they hype about the rumored Apple iPad computer. He speculates that We’re Bored and Out of Shiny Objects: For the last several months there’s been a ton of interest in the mythical Apple tablet. Just how much? Since July Google searches for the words Apple and […]

Apple has announced its picks (iTunes link) for the best podcasts of 2009, breaking them out into four categories: This Year’s Audio Podcasts – The Adam Carolla Podcast topped the list. Other noted include Robert Ashley’s A Live Well Wasted, WTF with Marc Maron, The Memory Palace and Norman Centuries. This Year’s Video Podcasts – […]

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has rejected claims that iPods pose an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss. According to a Reuters report: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a 2008 district court ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show that use of the iPod poses an […]

Infoworld has published an article arguing that Apple’s rumored iPad will fail big time. According to Infoworld, “to believe that Apple can somehow succeed where all others have failed is to ignore some fundamental realities of tablet computing.” Infoworld sums up the prospects for the rumored iTablet, saying “Unless Apple pulls something truly revolutionary out […]

Silicon Valley Insider is reporting that Apple plans to demo the rumored Apple iPad in January: Apple is preparing to show off a new, larger mobile device with a higher resolution display in January — probably a version of the Apple tablet we’ve been hearing about for months — according to a plugged-in source in […]

Time put together this concept video as a concept of what Sports Illustrated could be like on a future tablet computer. This is just a concept, but it’s clearly influenced by the iPhone’s industrial design and user interface design, and offers a vivid picture of why people are excited about the idea of an Apple […]