Microsoft Office for iPad could make its debut before July. According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, the oft-rumored version for Apple's famous tablet, codenamed "Miramar," is being fast tracked to market ahead of Microsoft's touch-first version of Office, which is be designed specifically for the company's Metro environment. Sources say officials within Microsoft are eager to debut Office...
Rumors that Apple is creating a larger 12.9-inch iPad won’t die. Apple’s own exec team doesn’t see the iOS and OS X converging anytime soon, but that doesn’t rule out the possibility that a larger iPad could ditch iOS altogether and simply run OS X. So, what if Apple were to create a larger iPad that did just that? What would it look like? A new concept from SET Solution shows us. In...
Earlier this week Fortune published a report in which it contacted dozens of analysts and published average expectations for iPhone sales during Apple's fiscal Q1. Analysts, on average, expect that Apple sold an average of 55.3 million iPhones. But what about iPads? Now Fortune has a new story covering predictions for iPad sales during the 2013 holiday season, too. Fortune surveyed 45...
Apple has a new mini-website called Life on iPad aimed at showing off the ways holiday shoppers can improve their lives by buying one of its famed tablets. Six stories from everyday people show how an iPad helped enhanced their hobbies or professions thanks to its unobtrusive design and efficient processing. Balancing the blade on sky-high windmills, perfecting the posture of an...
Apple just released a new Apple Store app specifically designed for the iPad and it’s available in time for what the company expects to be a very busy holiday shopping season. Apple clearly put a lot of work into the new app, and it shows with enhanced gesture-based controls and a UI that’s all about big beautiful images. iPhone users have had access to the Apple Store app for a while...
FTL: Faster Than Light is far and away one of my favorite games to release in a good long while. This tiny project with unbelievably good music has sucked more than 100 hours of my life away, and that comes because of its random generation and insane difficulty. $10, as of right now, scores you the PC version of the game. The developers behind the product have just announced that it's...
We’ve been hearing rumors all year that Samsung could release 12-inch tablet, but apparently even that may not be big enough. A new report from ETNews claims the Galaxy-maker is preparing to release a 13.3-inch Android slate next year. We’re not quite sure why someone would need a tablet so large, especially since that’s approaching a laptop-sized display, but maybe Samsung has a better...
T-Mobile announced a new pricing strategy for tablets today, and I dig the approach. While it's compelling to note that the iPad Air and other tablets will be available for $0 down with various monthly payments to pay off the full cost, the real attraction here is that each tablet comes with 200MB of free data each month. This new offer applies to existing customers, too, T-Mobile CEO...
Selling old gear to fund new purchases is more or less a yearly tradition. Something better and more attractive comes out, and suddenly what’s in your pocket—or, in this case, in your bag—seems old and janky. With new iPads just days away, now’s the perfect time to get rid of your year-old device in exchange for some cash. Luckily, there are many, many places to do this, meaning you...
Apple hasn't even finished out all of its product announcements for 2013 yet, and already one analyst is making predictions for 2014.