The launch of iPad on April 3rd may not be the only important event for Apple next month. According to reports on the MediaPost, Apple could also be getting ready to make an announcement on its new personalized mobile advertising platform tentatively named iAd.
The new platform that has been reportedly described as "revolutionary" by Steve Jobs is expected to be unveiled on April 7.
In a significant development just days ahead of iPad's launch next week, Apple is reported to have bought the rights to the "iPad" trademark in USA from Fujitsu – the company that had owned it until now.
Folks at Patent Authority report that the deal was made on the 17th of this month though the price of the transaction is not yet known.
Every once in a while we come across a new smartphone that can truly take on the iPhone in performance. Sprint has just removed the wraps on what could be a truly potent Android handset – the HTC EVO 4G.
Unveiled at the CTIA 2010 event earlier this week, HTC EVO 4G integrates a high performance hardware with Sprint's 4G network and WiMAX radio.
The iPad is seen as a platform that bridges the gap between mobile phones and notebooks.
Though critics have unfairly called the iPad as a "large iPhone", there is no denying the fact that there are indeed a few areas where the functionalities of the iPhone and iPad overlap.
With a significant chunk of iPad customers likely to be ebook readers, the launch of the iPad is seen to bring the tightest competition Amazon may have yet faced for its Kindle eReader.
That however does not seem to have stopped the ecommerce giant from selling Apple's iPad on its online store.
Geohot, the iPhone jailbreaking expert who has released popular jailbreaking and unlocking tools like blackra1n, blacksn0w brings good news for users who have been waiting to jailbreak their iPhone on iPhone OS 3.1.3.
He has announced an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch 3G; that might also work on the iPad.
The next generation of iPhone is speculated to arrive in just a few more months from now. Since the time Apple unveiled iPhone 3GS, there have been quite a few compelling developments like the foray of Google into the smartphone segment, the launch of the iPad and more heavy competition in general. Nevertheless Apple has always known to surprise its users with exciting features during its new product launches.
So what can we expect in Apple's next generation - iPhone 4G? Folks at CNET have a very good compilation of the most wanted features.
As the launch of iPad draws near, we have been hearing a lot of behind-the-scenes buzz as publishers and advertisers gear up to what could be the next big thing in multimedia.
With one of the significant challenges being the iPad's restriction in rendering multimedia platforms like Adobe Flash, it is being reported that major networks are prepping their websites to render Flash content in alternate HTML5 format for iPad users.
Earlier this year, MOTO Labs (not affiliated with Motorola) published a DIY touchscreen analysis test that revealed the superior performance of the iPhone touchscreen compared to those on rival devices like the Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid.
One of the striking revelations from the study was that while the iPhone demonstrated remarkable accuracy in rendering lines drawn with a human finger, other devices displayed a lot of waviness and inaccuracy.
We’re getting reports that iPhone was the first to fall at this year’s Pwn2Own contest organized by TippingPoint ZDI.
A pair of European researchers, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann have successfully hacked the iPhone via a Mobile Safari exploit and hijack the entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted.
