iPad News Tracker

MetaDesign, a global branding and design firm, today announced its role in creating the brand positioning and identity for Inkling, an innovative new business that has developed the world’s first end-to-end platform for mobile learning. The highly anticipated platform will be available this spring for Apple’s family of touch-enabled devices, including the groundbreaking new iPad. [...]

The wait is over for consumers and the hospitality industry alike, Apple’s iPad tablet has been formally introduced to the world. Intelity, an interactive hospitality technology leader, has long anticipated the launch of the revolutionary tablet to unveil the Interactive Customer Experience (ICE) compatibility with the iPad. The much talked about iPad tablet will be [...]

he National Federation of the Blind, the nation’s leading consumer organization of blind persons, today commended Apple Inc. for including its VoiceOver application on its latest device, the iPad, which was unveiled yesterday. VoiceOver is a screen access application that uses text-to-speech technology in conjunction with the device’s touch-screen interface so that blind people can [...]

Belkin presents three new sleeves—Vue, Max, and Grip—to protect your new Apple iPad while you’re on the move. These 10-inch sleeves are designed with reinforced panels to fully protect your device’s touch screen from scratches, while still offering storage for other media devices such as an iPhone, media reader, or earbuds. The iPad user is [...]

Ubiquitous Entertainment Inc. (UEI, Head Office: Bunkyo, Tokyo. CEO: Ryo Shimizu) announced the redesign of the iPhone/iPod touch applications, “ZeptoPad,” “Zeptoliner,” and “iShodo” for the iPad, released by Apple Inc. on 28th January (JST). In addition, UEI announced the decision to develop the contents for the iPad and to recruit more developers for iPad/ iPhone [...]

Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc., a research-driven strategic media advisory firm, announced today findings from consumer focus groups and one-on-one executive interviews with media buyers focused on the tablet category, its potentially game-changing implications for the advertising industry as well as its influence on general consumer multimedia usage habits. Conducted in anticipation of Apple’s launch [...]

In reaction to Apple’s announced iPad tablet device, Strategy Analytics foresees that the iPad will cannibalize existing product categories of Netbooks, Smartbooks, E-Book Readers and Mobile Internet Devices. “Without a doubt each of the four categories will feel the impact of the iPad” New converged mobile devices—which are larger than a smartphone and smaller than [...]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358494,00.asp Virtually all of the Apple App Store’s 140,000 apps will work on the new iPad, either running them with pixel-for-pixel accuracy in a large black box or in full-screen mode. Here’s our recommendations for what you’ll need to download. During Wednesday’s iPad announcement, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs talked a lot about apps and [...]

The iPad might have iBooks, but if Apple’s built-in iPhone apps are anything to go by, then it will likely be gorgeous but limited (the Mail app, anyone?). We think that it’ll be the third party e-book readers that turn the Moses Tablet into the Kindle Killer people so obviously want it to be. Ironically, [...]