tuaw — Casual artists looking to expand their sketching skills to the iPad should take a close look at Tayasui Sketches. The app landed in the iOS App Store earlier this month and rivals Paper as one of the best easy-to-use sketchbook apps. Sketches reminds me of an artist's workbench with a canvas...
tuaw — Microsoft may have released an iPhone optimized version of Office Mobile today, but that doesn't mean the folks over at Redmond are all aboard the iOS bandwagon completely. In an ad released yesterday, Microsoft takes some more shots at the iPad by poking fun at the iPad's lack of a zoom-able...
gizmodo — After plenty of rumor and speculation, Microsoft has quietly launched its version of Office for iOS—but as of yet there's no iPad version.Read more...
gizmodo — We're quite fond of both the iPhone and iPad versions of Traktor DJ. Rather than mimic the turntable rigs of yore, they're DJ apps that admirably designed with interfaces tailored to touchscreen interfaces. Today, the app developer Native Instruments announced small piece of hardware designed to control the apps.Read more...
tuaw — We've mentioned Kingdom Rush Frontiers here a few times before, so odds are you might know a little something about it already. But the long-awaited sequel/expansion to one of the best tower defense games on the App Store has now gone live, for $2.99 on iPhone and $4.99 on iPad,...
tuaw — Unless you are a cardiologist, learning about how the heart works can be an daunting task. Words alone can't describe it and static images can't capture the complexity of how the heart functions. Medical students, heart patients or anyone with an interest in cardiology should look beyond paper textbooks and...
tuaw — Once again the ugly patent battles between Apple and Samsung have come to a head, only this time it's Samsung enjoying a victory. According to Reuters and Bloomberg, the International Trade Commission has issued an order to Apple to stop importing AT&T models of the iPad 3G, iPad 2 3G,...
Inexpensive Wikipad Gaming Tablet Debuts June 11th, Challenges Razer Edge and NVIDIA Project SHIELD
hothardware — The Razer Edge and NVIDIA’s Project SHIELD aren’t the only handheld gaming tablets in the game; the Wikipad is making a push, and the $249 tablet will officially launch on June 11th. The Wikipad adopts the same design concept as the Razer Edge, which is a tablet that snaps into...
geeky-gadgets — If you have been patiently waiting for the launch of the new Wikipad handheld gaming console you will be pleased to learn that Wikipad has confined that the console will be arriving in stores in the US and UK on June 11th and will be priced at $249 or £165. (...)Original...
techcrunch — Remember the Wikipad? The Android-powered gaming tablet/hefty controller rig combo that was supposed to launch in 2012 before suffering delay after delay? Well, the wait is just about over — the company announced earlier today that the $249 gaming tablet will be available on U.S. store shelves starting on June...
gizmodo — If you haven't replaced your plethora of old Apple dock connector cables with fancy new Lightning cords, you might want to consider Sanwa's alternative before you do. Even though cellphones have all but replaced old-school phones with tethered handsets, those 'outdated' models can apparently still teach us something about keeping...
tuaw — April showers apparently brought May iPad Bluetooth keyboards, as I reviewed a ton of them during the month. The month of June is starting off with a duo of iPad mini keyboards from ZAGG, the ZAGGkeys Cover and ZAGGkeys Folio (both priced at US$99.99). While these two keyboards aren't available...
French court orders Apple to pay $6.5M copyright tax on iPads, country mulls future cultural levies
paidcontent — Apple must hand over 5 million euros in copyright fees it collected on iPad sales in 2011, a Paris court ruled last week. The ruling on the fees, which were eliminated in 2012, comes at a time when France is considering whether it should impose new cultural taxes on connected...
tuaw — The Dutch Supreme Court this week ruled that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn't infringe upon the design elements of Apple's iPad, thus throwing more water on Apple's efforts to get Samsung's tablet off of store shelves in the Netherlands. ComputerWorld reports that while Apple's design patents for the iPad were held...
tuaw — Musyc from FingerLab isn't your standard music-making app. There's no fretboard, no keyboard, or synthesizer interface. There is just a bunch of lines and shapes. I was doubtful when I first downloaded the app, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Musyc is a blast. Musyc allows you to draw...
gizmodo — The arrival of the iPad had many predicting the device would wipe out books, magazine, and newspapers once and for all. But their doomsday predictions were a little premature, and as the folks at engageLab demonstrate with this fantastic conceptual app, tablets and books can live in perfect harmony.Read more...
tuaw — Filesharing service Box has acquired the technology behind a French app called Folders, which is also centered on browsing and sharing files on the iPhone. Terms of the acquisition weren't revealed, but Box said that Folders would be a big influence on the next few iterations of the filesharing software....














