Another two weeks and the news just keeps getting better! Amazingly, I heard Kim Komando recommend iPads to three callers yesterday — a switch for her — she built her brand on Windoze but has now become a true Apple switcher! Among other news this week …
* Benefits of iPad 2 iOS 4.3
* Run Windows on your iPad???
* Samsung is betting big on Android tablets in the enterprise
* Your Solid 24kt Gold Apple iPad 2
* Little Falls schools to give iPads to students
* Apple iPad 2: The TechSpot Review
* Apple iPad 2 Gains New Real Wood Cover With Magnet Support
* 2010: The year Apple also became a chip company
Run Windows on your iPad???
Hot on the heels of a new 4.6 release of its View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), launched last week, VMware is allowing a new client to reach back across the internet or internal corporate networks to use server-based Windows desktops: Apple’s iPad and impending iPad 2 fondleslabs.
The View Client that VMware is shipping today does exactly what the prior clients do for Linux, Windows, or MacOS machines, using the PC over IP protocol (PCoIP) to link back into the Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 image that is running on a virtual partition running on a server. The PCoIP stack has lots of optimizations and data-compression techniques to make the local user experience on a virtual PC closer to that of a native PC.
Full story : www.theregister.co.uk
Samsung is betting big on Android tablets in the enterprise
If we could do a scientific poll to find out how many of the people who have purchased the Apple iPad so far got it primarily to use for business, I suspect the number would be at least 50%.
That doesn’t mean that the professionals who buy the iPad are only using it for email and business meetings. They also use it to read books and watch movies, especially on business trips. The point is that business is driving a lot more of the iPad’s success than you’d think by watching Apple’s promo videos and reading the iPad coverage in the media — or, at least most of the media. Full story : Jason Hiner
Your Solid 24kt Gold Apple iPad 2
[Warning this post has some snark] OK, you have everything now and you still want more but not just more you want a solid gold kind of more. You also took a liking to that new Apple iPad 2 that was recently launched.
Well Stuart Hughes of the UK has got just what your looking for with his latest custom piece named ‘Apple iPad 2 History Edition’. . . Full story : Tablets Planet
Benefits of iPad 2 iOS 4.3
Ahead of the launch of the new Apple iPad 2, Apple made available the latest version of iOS named 4.3 for iPad and a few other iDevices. The new update is free for download right now if you currently own iPad 1 but if you are going to be getting iPad 2, iOS 4.3 is what you will get out of the box. Full story : tablets-planet.com
Little Falls schools to give iPads to students
iPads are making their way through the Little Falls School District and beginning next school year, every fifth- through 12th- grade student in the district will be equipped with one.
The Little Falls School Board this week unanimously approved the Project Resources to Engage All Learners or Project REAL for short, which includes purchasing 1,450 iPads. Full story : by Jennifer Stockinger – brainerddispatch.com
Apple iPad 2: The TechSpot Review
The third post-PC blockbuster product – this is the phrase that Steve Jobs used to describe the iPad at their recent media event for the iPad 2. Regardless of how you feel about the company or their products, there is no denying that Apple is one of the best when it comes to product design and marketing.
Eager consumers flock to get the latest Apple hardware each year, often waiting in lines hundreds deep for hours on end. Full story : TechSpot
Apple iPad 2 Gains New Real Wood Cover With Magnet Support
a new wood cover has been unveiled by Miniot of Neatherlands, this new cover not only offers a real wood exterior but it also has magnet support like the Apple branded cover and it can also be folded into a stand too. Full story : tablets-planet.com
2010: The year Apple also became a chip company
While changes in the ancient market-share rivalry between chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices were unremarkable in 2010, the emergence of Apple as a force was anything but.
“The competitive state of affairs remained very much the same two-horse race it has been for more than 20 years, with Intel firmly in the lead and AMD a distant second,” IHS iSuppli said in a research note Full story : CNET
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