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James Murdoch Confirms The Daily Subscriptions, Launching In The “Next Few Weeks”

Rumors about News Corp.’s The Daily, an upcoming digital newspaper for the iPad, have been floating around for months now. The publication, result of months of hard work from a team of 100+ journalists in New York, is expected to introduce a new automatic subscription system through iTunes and to be heavily based on images...

Apple Updates iWork Suite for iPad With Bug Fixes

Earlier today Apple issued an update for the entire iWork suite for iPad (which includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote) to address bugs found in version 1.3, released in November. The minor 1.3.1 update for all the three apps of the suite fixes an issue with the predictive text menu when using Chinese or Japanese characters;...

StudioDock: The Reason for Musicians To Buy An iPad

In the past few years, we have seen an “explosion” of iOS devices used for music creations, live performances and gear experimentation. From the most curious app to the complex setups DJs and musicians have found themselves playing with, iOS devices — and especially the iPad — have become the most desired gadgets by geeks...

OMGuitar for iPad Was Meant for Auditions [Video]

We don’t know whether Steve Jobs knew the iPad would turn out to be a popular music instrument or not, but it’s undeniable that more and more artists every week are coming out with videos showing their live performances entirely based on the tablet. Even the Gorillaz created an album using only iPad apps. In...

The Future: Thought-Controlled iPad

When I was a kid and I tried to imagine what “the future” would look like, I have to admit I could only think of flying cars, spacecrafts and thought-controlled objects. As I grew up and realized flying cars were a no-no and the year 2000 didn’t bring anything new except for a weird computer...

Gameloft Brings Interactive World War II Archive To The iPad

With their latest release for the iPad, Gameloft has temporarily decided to put games on the shelves and focus on a more historic subject like World War II. And instead of re-creating the conflict through another first-person shooter videogame, Gameloft created a completely interactive and immersive 56-page book filled with photographs, maps and fac-simile documents....

First Leaked Image of “The Daily” for iPad

The Daily by News Corp. is one of the hottest rumors in the Apple tech sphere these days. Initially rumored to launch in December 2010 alongside iOS 4.3 and now apparently scheduled for a late January official announcement (with iOS 4.3 now out in beta), The Daily has been making the rounds also thanks to...

How To Enable Multi-Touch Gestures On iOS 4.3 for iPad [Beta]

Installed iOS 4.3 Beta 1 on your iPad, but can’t find the multi-touch gestures option everyone on the Internet is talking about? It’s not an “error” in your device, you just need to take an extra step to activate the feature. Being iOS 4.3 a “beta for developers”, this very specific feature needs to be...

Apple Brings Hardware Rotation Lock Back in iOS 4.3 for iPad

Looks like Apple listened to the thousands of users who were disappointed by the change made in iOS 4.2 that turned the rotation lock button into a mute switch. Through a new preference in the Settings app on the iPad, users can now set the behavior of the button to a mute switch or rotation...

Project Mag for iPad Issue 2 Now Available

Project, the iPad-only magazine from Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, was off to a good start when it was first released and then, pretty much like any other iPad magazine, it quickly disappeared from the App Store charts. There was a lot of excitement and anticipation around Branson’s Project, mainly because it was the first...

Verizon To Start Selling CDMA iPad, Too?

It looks like Verizon doesn’t want to stop at a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 that runs on its network. According to Bloomberg, Verizon Wireless will start selling iPads that can connect “directly” to its network. Such an iPad would have to include a CDMA chip to eliminate the need of a portable, external...

Touchless Gestures for iPad Demoed at CES [Video]

A few weeks ago, a Norway-based company called Elliptic Labs made the rounds of the Internet as they promised they would demo a touchless gesture technology for iPad at CES. The prototype is based on a docking station for the tablet, which has got an ultrasound system built-in that can pick frequencies out of the...

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