The battle for the control of your eyeballs continues as cable television companies try to retain subscribers by funneling the content it normally provides to you on your TV to devices like the iPad. Meanwhile content providers are tugging in the opposite direction, wanting you to pay piecemeal for the TV you already watch. Cable company Cablevision has taken a strong stance on the issue claiming that the iPad is just another TV....
While everyone knows that Android tablets have been shipping, the real question is how many have actually been sold to consumers.Daring Fireball’s John Gruberpresents an interesting metric that seems to indicate that there are currently 1.2 million Android tablets in the hands of consumers. With something like the iPad it’s easy to nail down sales numbers as they’re revealed to us by Apple’s quarterly reports. But with Android tablets it’s a bit harder because there are so many manufacturers and specifications that it can be tough to tell what is and is not a tablet....
If you needed proof that the iPad’s success is affecting adoption of competing tablets then the news,reportedby The Loop, that other tablet manufacturers have slowed production of tablets by nearly 10% since last March should give you what you were looking for. A report issued by JP Morgan Chase isstatingthat manufacturers of competing tablet brands have slowed orders for manufacturing in the face of faltering sales. The report names several competing tablets, including Asustek’s Eee Pad Transformer, Motorola’s XOOM, RIM’s PlayBook, and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab....
As a vault of seemingly endless blog worthy ideas,Kickstarternever fails. Behold “The Pocket Stand,” a minimalist iPad accessory that is both a multi-configuration stand and a sound-tested, high-quality speaker amplifier. Ultimately, the device allows you to gain extra functionality without sacrificing the mobility inherent of the iPad. The Pocket Stand, which also functions as a bottle opener was created by two friends from L.A., developerMichael Paekand architectSam Chan. The guys recently launched their 30 day Kickstarter campaign last week and are hovering just below $1,000....
Social web recommendation engine StumbleUpon has today launched a completely redesigned version of its iPad app. It’s a smart looking and smooth way to stumble through interesting corners of the web on your Apple tablet. I’ll be honest, I’ve never been much of a stumbler. For whatever reason, I missed out on the StumbleUpon craze and, though I’ve tried it once or twice, I’m not one of the millions of people that use the engine to discover interesting things on the net every year and make it the biggest driver of traffic in the social media space....
