The new—and free—Google Catalogs app takes all the paper catalogs piled on your coffee table and puts them on the iPad, perfect for searching, tapping, and swiping. Google isn’t the first company to dream up a catalog app on the iPad, mind you. There’s...
Don’t have a Kindle? No problem. As of today, you can dive into a Kindle e-book directly over the web—or on your iPad, no application needed. Amazon announced its Kindle “Cloud Reader” months ago but only launched it early Wednesday, and it’s a...
Does Amazon have a touchscreen version of the Kindle up its sleeves? Maybe, maybe not—but for now, at least, bargain hunters can snap up a refurbished, Wi-Fi-only Kindle on the cheap. The factory-refurb Wi-Fi Kindle 3 is now selling for just $99, versus $139 for a new...
Pop quiz: what’s the quickest, easiest way to calm a screaming infant? Easy: hand her an iPad. Of course, the idea of letting an eager, adorable little toddler drool all over a $500 tablet—you know, the one with all your work email on it—might give even the most...
If you’ve been holding off on getting the 3G-enabled version of the Kindle—and you don’t mind dealing with an occasional ad—now might be the ideal time to strike. Amazon just announced that its Kindle 3G “With Special Offers,” which originally...
Chatter of a new iPad this year just won’t go away, and now they’re saying it’ll be called the iPad “HD”—or the iPad 2 “Plus,” take your pick. So, is the latest iPad buzz to be believed? Background: As I wrote in June after...
If you were looking for a reason to pick the iPad as your tablet of choice rather than, say, an Android-powered tablet or the new HP TouchPad, here’s a number to consider: 100,000. That’s the number of iPad apps currently available for download, as duly...
The first reviews of HP’s iPad competitor, the TouchPad (starting at $499 for the 16 GB version, on sale July 1), are just hitting the web, and they’re profoundly mixed. On the one hand, reviewers seem enamored of the TouchPad’s WebOS software, which...
It’s been more than three months since the camera-packing iPad 2 arrived in stores … and here we are, still waiting for a full-on Skype app for iPad. Maybe not for much longer, though. The Mac bloggers at RazorianFly claim that Skype just posted—and then...
It wasn’t all that long ago that Apple shocked the wireless world with the first, practically buttonless iPhone—well, save for the prominent “Home” key just below the touchscreen. Now, some of the biggest players in mobile gadgets are looking to take...
