Lots of fun this week in the realm of iPad … * iPad passes Google Android in total browser usage share * Surprise! HP Reveals Plans for WebOS Tablet * Cisco Tablet Cius: Not an iPad Killer * Degas-Vu: Artist creates amazing portraits with iPad * Disney To Tap Into Apple iPad/Touch Market * Apple in talks to bring iPhone 4, iPad with localized content to China * Jailbreak Your iPad (Plus 8 Things to Do With It) * First iPad Class Action Lawsuit Underway . . .
iPad passes Google Android in total browser usage share
In just three months on the market, Apple’s iPad has come to represent 0.17 percent of all Web browser traffic tracked by Net Applications. The iPad’s June total managed to exceed Android, which represented 0.14 percent of all Web browsing traffic.
Behind both of them was another iOS-powered device from Apple, the iPod touch. In June, the iPod touch took 0.12 percent of the Web browser share, according to Net Applications.
more :: www.appleinsider.com
Surprise! HP Reveals Plans for WebOS Tablet
HP has officially completed the acquisition of Palm, making it the proud owner of Palm’s coveted intellectual property including WebOS.
Following a grandiose unveiling of the Windows 7-based Slate by Microsoft and HP at CES earlier this year, HP continued to hype the advantages of the tablet over the impending Apple iPad. more :: www.pcworld.com
Cisco Tablet ‘Cius’: Not an iPad Killer
With the launch of Cius, a tablet from Cisco, speculations have started whether it’s the company’s answer to Apple’s iPad. Would Cius be able to give Apple’s iPad a run for its money?
Analysts believe that Cius would be unable to topple iPad as the latter continues to enjoy healthy demand. Cius was launched to tap tablet market, where Apple’s iPad sale touched the magical 3-million mark. more :: www.lanewsmonitor.com
Degas-Vu: Artist creates amazing portraits with iPad
They combine the bright vivid colours of photography with the stylish flourishes of an accomplished painter. But at closer inspection theses remarkable images are fact finger paintings drawn directly onto the screen of Apple’s iPad.
Like a modern Etch-a-Sketch, the paintings are the creation of prominent New York artist David Kassan, 33, each painting of life models is drawn directly onto the iPad screen using his fingers. more :: www.dailymail.co.uk
Disney To Tap Into Apple iPad/Touch Market
The worlds largest media company Disney has acquired one of the top music related video game developers Tapulous Inc. to expand Disney’s hand-held mobile media business.
The Disney companies largest shareholder is Apple CEO Steve Jobs who also sits on Disney’s board of directors, so it’s only fitting that Disney would start it’s expansion into the lucrative apps marketplace. more :: www.disnology.com
Apple in talks to bring iPhone 4, iPad with localized content to China
A Chinese PC maker is in talks to distribute the iPad in China with localized content, while Apple’s existing wireless carrier partner hopes to carry both the iPad and iPhone 4 in the near future.
Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes reported Thursday that Fang Zhongua, vice president of Founder, a China-based PC maker, confirmed that his company is in negotiations with Apple to distribute the iPad. more :: appleinsider.com
Jailbreak Your iPad (Plus 8 Things to Do With It)
Apple’s iOS 4 enables multitasking and other new and useful features, but the iPad can’t join the party until this fall. If you jailbreak your iPad, however, you can multitask today–and that’s just the beginning.
Your jailbroken iPad can run all kinds of third-party apps far beyond the selection in Apple’s App Store. Want to sync over Wi-Fi, connect a Bluetooth GPS or mouse, and browse the entire iPad file structure? more :: www.networkworld.com
First iPad Class Action Lawsuit Underway
A San Franciso law firm announced it will be handling the first class action lawsuit aimed at Apple and AT&T in response to the elimination of unlimited data plan for iPads with 3G connectivity.
“The complaint alleges that Apple and AT&T should have known at the time they were promoting the availability of unlimited data plans, they were not going to keep that promise,” said Michael Sobol of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. more :: www.ipadnewsdaily.com
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