Apple's iPad turns 2: A look back and ahead
Apple's iPad made its debut two years ago today. CNET takes a look back at its origins, its successes, and what's rumored to be coming next. Originally posted at Apple Talk
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Two Years of Apple's iPad: Happy Second Birthday, Innovative Tablet!
Two years ago, Steve Jobs showed us the original iPad. Here are some of the milestones for the innovative slate over the past 24 months.
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iPad 3: Inside Apple's World of Secrecy
With the iPad 3 due to be announced in a matter of weeks, Adam Lashinsky has shed some light on Apple's extreme secrecy leading up to a product launch.
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Fingle your friends: The iPad just got too intimate
Hands-on with touchy-feely new iPad game, Fingle Valentine's Day approaches, and in case you're one of those odd ducks wondering about the Most Intimate iPad Game, here's your slam-dunk recommendation: Fingle. Based on my time with it here at the office, it's earned nothing but awkward blushes. Fingle's an iPad-only app because you wouldn't have enough finger room on an iPhone or iPod.
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Experts Offer Tips on Avoiding iPad-Linked Shoulder, Neck Strain
FRIDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- If working with your iPad or other tablet computer gives you shoulder or neck pain, there are ways around it, a new study suggests.
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Hands-On With the Everything-Proof Pelican iPad Case
The Pelican iPad case does one thing, and it does it very well: It makes your iPad look like a Dell laptop c.1995. Kidding. It also protects the iPad within from pretty much anything you can throw at it. Pelican is famous for its super-tough camera cases, shockproof, dustproof and waterproof plastic boxes that can
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INSIDE THE WORLD OF DINOSAURS™ – iPad app narrated by STEPHEN FRY roars into the App Store!
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- M5859 Studios is proud to announce the release of one of the most exciting and content-rich apps in the world of interactive publishing - Inside the ...
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iPad 3 rumour rollup for the week of January 26
As the faithful gathered in San Francisco this week for Macworld|iWorld, their faith seemed rewarded by a new spate of iPad 3 rumours.
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iPad Textbooks: Reality Less Revolutionary Than Hardware
Much as tablet computers went mainstream in the iPad’s wake, Apple’s latest educational project heralds an age of tablet-based schoolbooks. That, at least, is the hope and hype surrounding iBooks textbooks , launched Jan. 19 at a promotional gala held in the Guggenheim Museum and advertised in terms as glowing as an iPad’s screen.
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IPad down to 58% of tablet sales as Android catches up
Despite gang-buster sales last quarter, the iPad has lost more than 10 percentage points of market share to rival Android tablets since the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics.
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Making College Students' Lives Easier: Questia Launches Free iPad App to Help Write Research Papers
CHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of its successful free iPhone and iPod touch app that helps college students write better research papers faster, Questia has released the universal ...
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Happy birthday, dear iPad
Friday Jan. 27 the iPad turns two years old. There were tablet computers before the iPad, just like there were smartphones before the iPhone.
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iPad dominates tablet market, but Android is closing fast
Apple's iPad is still the dominant tablet. (Credit: Apple) It wasn't long ago that Apple owned nearly 70 percent of the global tablet market. But now, the company is just barely holding on to half the space. During the fourth quarter of 2011, 10.5 million Android-based tablets shipped worldwide , helping them secure 39.1 percent of the market, according to new data from research firm Strategy ...
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How to Safely Use an iPad (and other Apple Products)
We have become so obsessed with our iGadgets that not only do we accept the unsafe working conditions that it takes to produce our iPads and the like, but we've also put our own health at risk. Attachment to our iPad screens has led to head and neck strain, found recent research out of Stanford. And there's even a Text Neck institute, for the "epidemic." We don't mean to suggest that our bourgy ...
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