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We’re big fans of the Rdio service, so we’re happy to see that the music-streaming service now has a fully-featured iPad app. For those of you who don’t know, Rdio is a subscription music service which gives you access to millions of streaming or downloaded songs with a strong social twist. The iPad app takes…
Apple has finally managed to balance supply and demand for the iPad 2 and now the shipping time for the popular tablet is 24 hours. In other words – if you order the iPad 2 today, it will be shipping from the factory within one day. It may take a few days longer to actually…
Facebook has just acquired Push Pop Press, which also includes one of its co-founders, Mike Matas, who happened to work for Apple once upon a time. Matas was a human interface designer at Apple, and he designed a lot of what you see in the iPhone, iPad and even on your Mac. What could this…
After a false start this morning, the Skype video and voice calling app for the iPad has been released. All of the standard bells and whistles are included, like instant messaging, friends list management, SMS texting, and of course video and voice calls to other Skype users as well as land lines. No multi-user video…
There has been a lot said about the iPad and tablets being the next wave in publishing and The New Yorker revealed that it has more than 100,000 iPad users and more than 20,000 people are paying about $60 a year for a subscription for its iPad app. The New Yorker iPad app may not…
Google will be updating their web search page so that it’s formatted to be finger-friendly when visited from Android 3.1 tablets or iPad. The new optimizations should make life easier when viewing in either portrait or landscape orientation. Tabs for different types of searches will be easily accessible, and images in particular should have their…
NASA has just released a neat Visualization app for the iPad and it’s a cool way to use your tablets to gain some perspective on this little, blue marble that we all live on. The NASA Viz iPad app is jam-packed with information about Earth, as you can view multiple photos of the planet from…
Apple has just signed a 10-year deal with the MTA to open the largest Apple Store ever in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. The maker of the iPhone and iPad have a few locations in NYC already, including the iconic cube store on 5th Avenue, but the coming Apple Store location at Grand Central…
Apple is airing a new iPad 2 commercial called “We’ll Always.” The general idea is that our daily routine, our daily lives and the things we’ve always done will remain the same, but the way in which we do these things won’t. In it, we see the ease at which home videos are edited, recipes…
Apple had an amazing third quarter and the company was never going to lay out its plans for the next iPhone or iPad but it did release a nugget of information by saying that it will be having a “product transition” soon which would impact its next quarter. “We have a future product transition that…