News is getting hotter and hotter about iPad 2, plus some other goodies …
* Local Catholic high school to give Apple iPads to freshmen
* iPad 2, Pricing Could Spell Doom for Motorola Xoom
* Four Signs of Honeycomb’s Rush to Compete With Apple’s iPad
* Top 5 Apple iPad 2 rivals in the 7-inch tablet category [PHOTOS]
* Apple gets onboard with 4G LTE for iPad 2?
* Motorola Xoom Gets Solid Early Reviews Despite Price
* Apple iPad, iOS influences show in Mac OS X preview
* iPad 2: Thunderbolt Port Is Apple’s Secret Weapon?
* No SD Card Reader or Higher Resolution Display For Apple iPad 2 …
Photo, courtesy of tablets-planet.com … see article below.
Local Catholic high school to give Apple iPads to freshmen
Bishop Canevin High School will provide all of its freshmen with an Apple iPad next school year.
The Catholic school in the Oakwood section of Pittsburgh will use a combination of $16,000 in federal stimulus money and $25,000 in state funding to buy the tablet computers for more than 100 students. The school is securing private funding to cover the difference. An iPad costs about $480.
Full story : Jodi Weigand – PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
iPad 2, Pricing Could Spell Doom for Motorola Xoom
540 Motorola Xoom’s sales will likely be impeded by the Apple iPad 2 introduction slated for March 2, analysts agree. The Xoom performed well against the iPad in early tests.
Executives from Verizon Wireless, Motorola and Google wowed the crowd at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 6 when they demonstrated the 3D and other graphical user interface capabilities of the Xoom, which runs Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system. Full story : www.eweek.com
Four Signs of Honeycomb’s Rush to Compete With Apple’s iPad
The Motorola Xoom tablet and its Google Honeycomb operating system show hints of cutting corners on the way to launch
Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple’s (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and developer interest. Full story : www.businessweek.com
Top 5 Apple iPad 2 rivals in the 7-inch tablet category [PHOTOS]
Apple’s iPad 2 is due on March 2, confirms an invitation sent by Apple for a media event at Yerba Buena Center.
A barrage of tablets donning 7-inch displays started inundating the market after Samsung launched its Galaxy Tab. Some of the key players in the 7-inch segment are HTC Flyer, RIM PlayBook, Dell Streak 7,Samsung Galaxy Tab and ASUS MeMo. In the 10-inch category Apple competes against Motorola Xoom, HP’s TouchPad, LG Slate, Notion Ink Adam and Samsung Galaxy Tab. Full story : www.ibtimes.com
Apple gets onboard with 4G LTE for iPad 2?
The world of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) may be coming to the iPad sooner than we expected. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon CEO Daniel Meade went on record to say, ‘you’ll see more coming from Apple on LTE. – Does this mean we’ll see an LTE iPad 2 announced next week?
For every bit of speculation revolving around Apple products there is also an equal level of consistency. Each year around June, a shiny new iPhone is released. Meanwhile, MacBook Pros and iMacs see a refresh in six to twelve month intervals. Next week Apple is holding an event where the company will introduce the iPad 2. Engulfed by countless rumors, the second-generation tablet may have an exciting, albeit speculated, feature – 4G LTE. Full story : www.electricpig.co.uk
Motorola Xoom Gets Solid Early Reviews Despite Price
Reviews for Motorola’s Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet computer have been largely positive. Now Moto just has to convince people to buy it in the face of the Apple iPad 2.
Putting aside the somewhat steep $599 price tag (with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract), Motorola’s Xoom has garnered solid reviews from noted industry analysts at its Feb. 24 launch. Full story : www.eweek.com
Apple iPad, iOS influences show in Mac OS X preview
Apple Lion release showcases gestures, full screen mode, app groupings and navigation in Mac OS X
The “Lion” release gives users a view of everything running on the computer, and a single home for Mac applications. Applications will now be able to fill the entire display screen, and can make use of multi-touch gestures. Also included is the recently introduced Mac App Store, modeled after the iTunes App Store for iPhones and iPads, which run iOS. Full story : www.networkworld.com
iPad 2: Thunderbolt Port Is Apple’s Secret Weapon?
With Thunderbolt (Intel’s Light Peak technology) reportedly “exclusive” to Apple devices up until 2012, we can be certain that both Intel and Apple will like to maximize the usage of the technology before the next revolutionary option comes along.
While the Thunderbolt feature is already pegged for the New MacBook Pro, there is one other Apple product that is due for a refresh and could certainly use it. Full story : www.gizmocrunch.com
News Corp’s The Daily Happy to Have People Put Its Content in Blogs
Remember when News Corp. first launched The Daily – the Apple iPad news app (early review here) – and somebody indexed all of its stories in blog format so they could easily be read on the web?
Well, that guy (Andy Baio) has put a post up about how he did it, and said that he’s taking it down, but it’s not for the reasons you might think. Full story : www.webpronews.com
No SD Card Reader or Higher Resolution Display For Apple iPad 2
Apple will be holding an event on March 2nd to usher in what is believed to be the second generation iPad, Apple iPad 2. However some new ‘insider’ info could have just rained on Apple’s parade before it even kicks-off.
An unnamed source who spoke with Engadget and states the new iPad will not have an SD card built-in and no super-high resolution display will be present like rumors had been suggesting for these past few months. Some unspecified ‘engineering issues’ are to be blamed for the lack of both features in this iPad, according to the source. The source by Engadget’s own record keeping hasn’t been wrong before about features claimed to be in unreleased Apple products. Full story : tablets-planet.com
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