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Remember Jitterbug Phones For Seniors? Here’s The iPad Equivalent

hiw-3Remember Jitterbug, the big-buttoned phones for seniors that made using those confusing, new-fangled cellphone thingies so much easier to handle? Well it looks like someone has gone out and built the equivalent for the iPad. Which literally made me laugh out...

Happly For iPad Helps Curious Kids Discover The Web…Safely

iPad_TOC_sizediPad guilt? There needs to be a technical term for that feeling in the pit of a parent's stomach that arises from handing over the iPad to their kids, only to watch them play brain rotting Outfit7 games or level after level...

FarFaria Brings A Hulu For Kids’ Stories To The iPad

farfaria-main"Grumpy Cat! Grumpy Cat! More Grumpy Cat, please!" - That's basically my two-year-old's review of FarFaria, a new subscription-based children's storybook app for the iPad. (To translate: she loves it, and especially that story about the grumpy cat.) The app, to be...

Nielsen Teams With Disney/ABC To Measure Consumers’ iPad Usage Behavior

AllShowsDecemberRefresh_Screen3A little bit of news from Nielsen that flew under the radar a few days ago hints at big things ahead for the measurement firm and its goals of understanding user behavior across all platforms. The company said it was teaming...

Facebook For iPad Gets Retina-Ready

mzl.upqbgrlg.480x480-75Facebook rolled out an update this morning that adds support for the new iPad's Retina display to its iPad application. According to the release notes in iTunes, users with the new iPad will now see "a crisp, high resolution interface." The...

iPad Sales May Reach 66 Million In 2012

ipadnewFollowing Apple's announcement yesterday of the new iPad's record weekend, which saw 3 million devices sold in three days, analysts are upping their predictions for the tablet's market share growth over the course of the year. In a note to investors, Gene...

Fab: In 2 Years, iPad Users Will Account For A Quarter Of Our Revenue

fab-ipad-screenThere's something interesting going on over there on Fab. The design shopping site found that some of its best customers - that is, those who convert to paying customers the quickest, those who spend the most, and those who return the...

Lucky Sort Grabs Half A Million For Big Data Visualization On Web & iPad

luckysort_ipadscreenshotHow would you like to crunch your way through big data on your iPad? That's one of the many promises of Lucky Sort, the stealthy new Portland, Oregon-based startup building a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch meant for discovering patterns in...

When Will The Post-PC Era Arrive? It Just Did.

Scrabble on the iPadThere has been much debate about what the post-PC era is, when it will arrive, or whether it's already here. But key pieces of new data, emerging last week, are making the case that we crossed the imaginary line...

Vodio Brings Personalized Video Recommendations To The iPad

vodio-homeVodio is a new iPad app that's somewhat along the same lines as iOS app Shelby.tv. Like Shelby, it also brings you videos being shared by your friends on social networks. But where Shelby.tv only focuses on those "socially shared" videos, Vodio...

iOS Closes Out The Year With 52% Mobile Web Market Share

mobile-web-marketshare-2011Who's browsing the mobile web the most? Apparently, iPhone and iPad owners are. According to end-of-the-month data from statistics provider NetMarketShare, iOS users ended up with a 52% market share of mobile web browsing in December 2011. More simply put, that...

Retailers Aren’t Ready For iPad Shopping Trend

ipad-pageviews-1New data from Compuware finds conclusive proof of the popularity of iPads as a shopping device. The firm took a look at the website traffic for 70 U.S. retailers' delivered to an iPhone or iPad over the start of the holiday...

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