Just when you thought the iPad hype may be winding down, Stephen Colbert opened up The Grammys by pulling out the new Apple device instead of an envelope to present the show’s award for “Song of the Year.”Colbert then jokingly turned to Jay-Z …
While the ebook war between Apple and Amazon has only just again, this weekend’s drama between Macmillan and Amazon has ended decisively in the book publisher’s favor.This weekend it was revealed that Macmillan and Amazon were fighting o…
Amazon is coming under fire for sanctioning Macmillan, after the book publisher said it wanted to raise prices for its e-books. But in reality, Amazon is just doing to the book industry what Apple did to the record labels in the early days of the iP…
Ah, yup. Between the price point, the locked-down App Store approach, the spiffy design, the tech specs, the lack of camera, the lack of multitasking, the lack of phone, the cool iBook Store, the corny iBook shelves, the impending transformation of …
This week was a busy one in the news as Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s iPad on the same day President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address – two events with significant impacts on startups and entrepreneurs. In this week’s ReadWriteSta…
At Apple’s iPad release event, I met Dan Lyons, technology writer for Newsweek. He is also know as the man who writes as Fake Steve Jobs. We were discussing the iPad with me being obviously impressed and him not so much. Here, watch this video.
Editor’s note: This is a guest post penned by Ethan Nicholas, developer of the million-dollar iPhone game iShoot and the newly released Kim Rhode’s Outdoor Shooting. Before the iPad was even announced, Nicholas was already conceiving his next ga…
According to a hearsay report in Wired, Apple CEO Steve Jobs allegedly said the following at an internal town hall meeting for Apple employees coinciding with the launch of the iPad:We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the p…
It may be suddenly fashionable to say so, but the new Apple iPad tablet wont kill the Kindle from Amazon. Here are three reasons.
One of the glaring things missing from the Apple iPad is a camera. Interestingly, though, a source confirmed to Engadget that the iPhone OS 3.2 — the operating system running on the iPad — has several different software hooks that includ…