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...
Videos are probably the biggest space hogs around when it comes to computer hard drives; just ask anyone who’s ever purchased and downloaded an entire TV season from iTunes. Indeed, a single HD episode of, say, “Mad Men” from the iTunes Store weighs...
I love the beach, and I love my iPhone, but the sandy, windy surf and the delicate electronics in my precious handset simply don’t go together. And while there are plenty of shockproof iPhone cases on the market, only a few are truly waterproof, and those that...
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...
Oh, what a tease. Visiting with reporters at a Facebook office in Seattle on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly let slip that the social giant would “launch something awesome” next week. Well, now, what could we be talking about here? Maybe that...
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...
