The iPad 2 launches in Australia and New Zealand this week (March 25th) and to foreshadow that I’ve written my latest Listener column on the power of the “app” and how our concept of software is changing thanks to this new format which has been hugely successful for Apple and also Google with its Android […]
MoreIf the treatment of Wired, the Financial Times and the BBC shows the iPad holds a lot of promise for a moribund media, signs are also good that this device and the new wave of touch-screen tablet computers could do great things for communicating science. I’ve been using the iPad for around six weeks now […]
MoreI happened to be in Australia on Friday as the Apple iPad went on sale there, predictably attracting shoppers who queued through the night at the George St Apple store in Sydney. Adelaide, where I was, doesn’t have an official Apple store, but the iPads on offer were long gone by the time I got […]
MoreElke Boevers from Ecce Terram returned from her Silicon Valley sojourn cradling an iPad and today she brought it into the Science Media Centre for us to have a look at – and a play with. Bottom line is that I’ll probably be getting one of these – importing it via friends in the states […]
MoreMost of the rumours proved to be true, testament I suppose to how hard it is for a company of Apple’s stature to develop a product secrectly in a world as inter-connected as ours. Here’s the spec sheet for the new Apple iPad: 9.7 inch IPS display 0.5 inches thin 1.5 pounds Full capacitive multi-touch […]
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