Blog on Apple iPad

Apple on Wednesday morning released a minor update for its mobile operating system iOS 4, which includes bug fixes and a new photography mode. Apple last week said iOS 4.1 would address a proximity-sensor issue in the iPhone 4 and sluggish performance on the iPhone 3G, among other flaws. In terms of features, iOS 4.1 introduces Game Center, a social network for iOS gamers, as well as high dynamic range (HDR) photo processing , which Wired.com demonstrated last week.

> > View all The guys behind the new modulR line of iPad cases have a clever idea: Let one case take on multiple identities through a variety of add-ons. The basic case is a hard plastic shell that protects the iPad in use. Its rubberized edges grip the tablet securely, while little “nubs” on the back give your hand something more to grip onto than the iPad’s normally slick exterior. They also help raise the device off the table so it’s a little easier to pick up. When traveling, you can clip on a hard plastic face plate that protects the iPad’s screen. At your desk

As predictable as the sun rising somewhere over east Japan, the iFixit crew have put their tools and wits to the task of deconstructing the latest generation of iPod touch . Their teardown is still ongoing (exciting, isn’t it?), but here are their observations so far. The new touch is noted as being the easiest to crack open yet, and yes, its retina-busting 640 x 960 LCD is fused to the external glass, just like the iPhone 4. There’s an 11-gram EMI shield between the front end and the battery, accounting for a lofty 10 percent of the portable media player’s weight. Beyond it, you’ll find a chunky 3.44Whr Li-Pol cell, which is soldered to the board as is usual Apple practice, but a novelty here is that the headphone jack isn’t . Great, tie down the thing we might want to replace and untether the one we don’t care about.

Windows Phone 7 Office Image via Microsoft. Traditionally, Microsoft has been a software company, leveraging its office suites and operating systems, but selling applications for any compatible hardware and platform. For smartphones in particular, its strategy has been to supply the software and let other companies worry about developing the phones. So why not go all the way and sell its software for every device on every platform? That’s what Business Insider’s Dan Frommer proposes the company do : “Microsoft should develop Office apps for the iPad, Android, Chrome OS, BlackBerry tablet, and any other computing platform that is likely to become popular over the next 5-10 years,” adding that “if Microsoft wants to keep people tied into its Office suite, it needs to go where the people are going.” Office is integrated into the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 OS, but would compete on several fronts in smartphone and tablet platforms, including iWork on Apple’s iPad, Google Docs on the mobile web, and Dataviz’s multi-platform Documents To Go, just acquired by Blackberry maker RIM .

Das iPad hat eine Welle losgetreten – die vielen Android-Pads, die an der IFA in Berlin vorgestellt wurden, beweisen dies. Doch während die Nachzügler das …

Image from DataViz.com. With its flagship mobile office suite Documents To Go, software company DataViz makes some of the most popular productivity applications for Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mobile, and Android. Now that RIM has bought the better chunk of DataViz to work for Blackberry, its days as a cross-platform mobile superstar might be numbered. The deal had been r eported as done on Friday by Crackberry.com, reportedly for $50m in cash, shortly after DataViz had announced that they were cancelling development for Palm. RIM confirmed the acquisition yesterday in a statement: “RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus on supporting the BlackBerry platform.” Translation: it’s all ours, now.

“Beim Wirtschaftsblatt haben wir ein Digital-Abo für das iPad, viele andere arbeiten ebenfalls an solchen Angeboten”, erzählt er. Freilich ist die Konkurrenz in Form von Gratis …

Es bewegt sich etwas auf dem Markt der Tablets. Zwar steht das iPad immer noch in Sachen Nachfrage an der Spitze, aber so langsam kommt die Konkurrenz näher. Zwei …

As Salesforce’s foray into social collaboration, Salesforce Chatter, gains traction amongst enterprise users, it makes sense for the company to launch complimentary mobile …

Steve Jobs wasn’t kidding when he called the iPod Touch the “iPhone without a phone.” We have been calling it that for years, of course, but with each iteration the two iOS devices get closer and closer in terms of features. Now a vibrating alert has been added to the the Touch. The first iPod Touch was a chunky slab of metal and glass, and didn’t even come with a hardware volume-control. As the product-line has evolved, Apple has added not only a volume switch but a speaker (the latest version has a proper speaker, not the tinny thing hidden in the headphone socket like last year’s model), a pair of cameras, a gyroscope and a microphone. The only the Touch now lacks are the cellular radio, the GPS and the mute-switch on the side