Want another reason why the newspaper industry is going down the tubes? How about this: the owner of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times wants to create an Android-powered tablet for its subscribers. The device, reportedly to be manufactured by Samsung, is expected to miss a mid-August deadline.
Tony Bongiovi (yes, if the name sounds oddly familiar, it’s because you’re probably thinking of his cousin, Jon Bon Jovi) should know a thing or two about sound, hopefully; he’s had a hand in producing albums from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, and of course, his famous cousin.
Father Paolo Padrini is the Italian priest who developed iBrevary, an app that puts morning prayer, evening prayer and night prayers on the iPhone. It was the first iPhone application sanctioned by the Holy Roman Church, Padrini also works with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
Cult of Mac talked to him about what’s next app-wise and what place religious apps have in iTunes.
Like the basketball hopeful unable to play in the NBA, rival tablet makers may find it easier to compete against U.S.-based Apple in Europe. The tech giant’s massive supply chain makes Europe’s 52 Apple stores a slightly easier target than America, where the iPad maker has 238 stores, analysts said Tuesday.
Apple’s decision to not include a USB Stick containing a copy of Mac OS X Lion for system recoveries with the new Mid-2011 MacBook Air might be causing the company a bit of a public relations issue this week. A fair number of MacBook Air users are venting their frustrations over the matter on Apple’s Support Community forums.
Anyone who has ever looked after a kid has probably had one of those moments where you turn around and the the spritely tyke has disappeared.
A new app from the Federal Bureau of Investigation hopes to lessen those moments of panic.
We all love lists, so here’s an interesting one to ponder. Men’s Health magazine has just ranked 100 U.S. cities by iPad usage, combining data from online ad impressions, the number of Apple and Best Buy stores per capita, and the percentage of households that own tablets or notebooks. And the winner’s are:
1 Plano, TX A+
2 San Jose, CA A
3 San Francisco, CA A
4 Boise, ID A-
5 Austin, TX A-
6 Oakland, CA B+
7 San Diego, CA B+
8 Durham, NC B+
9 Chesapeake, VA B+
10 Colorado Springs, CO B+
If the only thing stopping you from abandoning Facebook for Google+ is universal support, get downloading: a new version of the official Google+ iOS app is out, and now it supports the iPad and iPod Touch. Anyone noticed anything else different? Let us know in the comments.
Time is money. If so, the iPad is capable of saving enterprises big cash due to its ability to free employees from the desk. One company integrating the iPad into its work environment is Business Intelligence software maker MicroStrategy. The company now uses 2,300 iPads at its $454 million software firm.
We have theorized before that Apple was holding back its much rumored iOS 5’s Nuance speech integration as a feature to be revealed at the iPhone 5 launch event, and it looks like we may have been right, as a couple of new screenshots have popped up showing just how speech recognition will be integrated with the operating syste,.