Topicfire iPad News http://topicfire.com/iPad 2013-05-22T19:41:23+00:00 text/html 2013-05-17T18:38:47+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ Social Trip Planning App Tripshare Converts Travel Inspiration To Bookings http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/social-trip-planning-app-tripshare-converts-travel-inspiration-to-bookings/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/social-trip-planning-app-tripshare-converts-travel-inspiration-to-bookings/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/2-bpoe.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry &#8211; Bob Dana was the former employee No. 1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasibility study for Sir Richard Branson... text/html 2013-05-16T12:31:22+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ Chills and thrills for your iPad with Haunting Melissa http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/16/chills-and-thrills-for-your-ipad-with-haunting-melissa/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/16/chills-and-thrills-for-your-ipad-with-haunting-melissa/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2013/05/haunting.jpg" /></a><br />A teenage girl alone in a remote farmhouse; an absent father, a boyfriend off at college... and a locked door that conceals a tragic secret. These are the creepy, chilling tropes on display in Haunting Melissa, a serialized video horror story delivered in the form of an iOS app available... text/html 2013-05-14T21:33:49+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ Square unveils new iPad stand dubbed Square Stand http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/14/square-unveils-new-ipad-stand-dubbed-square-stand/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/14/square-unveils-new-ipad-stand-dubbed-square-stand/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2013/05/square-stand-reader.png" /></a><br />Square today unveiled the Square Stand, the company's latest effort to become an even more entrenched player in the mobile-payments market. The Square Stand is essentially an elegant stand with an embedded card reader for the iPad, which when running Square Register, offers a compelling alternative to traditional cash registers. You... text/html 2013-05-11T17:30:28+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ Gillmor Gang: Windows Too Late http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/11/gillmor-gang-windows-too-late/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/11/gillmor-gang-windows-too-late/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/gillmor-gang-test-pattern_excerpt.jpeg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — broke from the gate and never let up in a barnburner of a show about the post-Jobs era. Will Google assume the mantle of leadership from an aging Apple, or is this just an... text/html 2013-05-10T18:31:24+00:00 http://arstechnica.com/ Tablets can interfere with implanted defibrillators, stop hearts http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/tablets-can-interfere-with-implanted-defibrillators-stop-hearts/ <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/tablets-can-interfere-with-implanted-defibrillators-stop-hearts/"><img src="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ICD-300x225.jpg" /></a><br />Bloomberg is reporting on a 14-year-old student in Colorado who found herself presenting data to the Heart Rhythm Society meeting in Denver this week. Gianna Chien's study of the effects of an iPad 2 on implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) is making some waves among the medical community because it appears to demonstrate that... text/html 2013-05-08T20:33:18+00:00 http://arstechnica.com/ Pickup in iOS 7 Web traffic titillates Apple-watchers http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/05/pickup-in-ios-7-web-traffic-titillates-apple-watchers/ <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/05/pickup-in-ios-7-web-traffic-titillates-apple-watchers/"><img src="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ios7_Ars-640x179.png" /></a><br />Ars has seen a pickup in traffic from devices out of Cupertino claiming to use iOS 7, but it's not a ton. Apple's engineers are apparently ramping up their testing of iOS 7, as evidenced by Web traffic on Ars and various other sites. First noted... text/html 2013-05-08T12:30:48+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ Daily iPad App: Leviathan Warships features sweet, turn-based boat warfare http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/08/daily-ipad-app-leviathan-warships-features-sweet-turn-based-bo/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/08/daily-ipad-app-leviathan-warships-features-sweet-turn-based-bo/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2013/05/ipadwarshipsfight.jpg" /></a><br />First of all, go enjoy the wonderful trailer for this game. If you're not sold on Leviathan Warships (US$4.99 on the App Store) after watching that, then I'm not exactly sure what else you want. Leviathan Warships is a turn-based naval strategy game. Your job is to guide a series of... text/html 2013-05-04T17:30:07+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ Gillmor Gang: Glass Onion http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/04/gillmor-gang-glass-onion/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/04/gillmor-gang-glass-onion/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/gillmor-gang-test-pattern_excerpt.jpeg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — well, we talked Google Glass. @scobleizer has certainly made the case for the life-altering shower-taking scenarios, but what the Gang got into was what happens next. Do we wait for the actual launch early next year,... text/html 2013-05-03T00:31:26+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ Origin Stories: Vectrex offers nostalgic gameplay http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/02/origin-stories-vectrex-offers-nostalgic-gameplay/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/02/origin-stories-vectrex-offers-nostalgic-gameplay/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2012/11/vectrexapp.jpg" /></a><br />If you were a kid in the 1980's you may remember the oddball consumer gaming console called the Vectrex. Notable for it's use of vectors instead of bitmapped graphics (like every other console), the Vectrex never quite took hold but before it was discontinued a number of fun retro games... text/html 2013-05-02T18:36:38+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ iPad commands lion's share of tablet market despite Samsung's gains http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/02/ipad-commands-lions-share-of-tablet-market-despite-samsungs-ga/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/02/ipad-commands-lions-share-of-tablet-market-despite-samsungs-ga/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2013/04/ipad32913.jpg" /></a><br />The latest Q1 2013 research data from IDC shows that the market for tablets is absolutely booming, growing 142.4% year over year. To put that into context, IDC notes that the 49.2 million tablets shipped during the first three months of 2013 is greater than the number of tablets shipped... text/html 2013-05-02T10:22:16+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ Daily iPad App: Tipping Point Adventure for iPad is clever and engaging http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/01/tipping-point-adventure-for-ipad-is-clever-and-engaging/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/01/tipping-point-adventure-for-ipad-is-clever-and-engaging/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2013/05/tippingpointlogo2.jpg" /></a><br />My experience as an adventure game player goes way back to the text-only Colossal Cave game, which then morphed into the classic Zork text games from Infocom (which, by the way, you can play even now on iOS with the Lost Treasures of Infocom app). Now, with speed and graphic power,... text/html 2013-05-01T19:33:39+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ The steady demise of Apple's iPod http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/01/the-steady-demise-of-apples-ipod/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/01/the-steady-demise-of-apples-ipod/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2013/05/ipod-shot-2-chromatic.png" /></a><br />Apple last week released its earnings for the March quarter and posted revenue of US$43.6 billion along with a quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion. Product wise, the company sold 37.4 million iPhones, 19.5 million iPads, and 5.63 million iPods. All in all, another impressive quarter from Apple. But one data... text/html 2013-04-29T14:37:12+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ iPad tops J.D. Power's customer satisfaction survey for second year in a row http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/29/ipad-tops-j-d-powers-customer-satisfaction-survey-for-second-y/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/29/ipad-tops-j-d-powers-customer-satisfaction-survey-for-second-y/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2013/04/ipads-survey.jpg" /></a><br />Once again, Apple's iPad has topped the J.D. Power and Associates ranking of tablets as it pertains to customer satisfaction. In its most recent survey, J.D. Power surveyed 1,857 tablet users who have owned a tablet for at least one year. The survey measured satisfaction across five factors; performance, ease of... text/html 2013-04-25T22:38:16+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ Just Mobile's HeadStand, AluCup, and AluFrame: Accessories that organize, protect http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/25/just-mobiles-headstand-alucup-and-aluframe-accessories-that/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/25/just-mobiles-headstand-alucup-and-aluframe-accessories-that/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2013/04/justmobilebannerizer.jpeg" /></a><br />As the Northern Hemisphere of the planet wakes up from winter, accessory manufacturers are coming to life with some new or revised products. One of those companies, Just Mobile, has released a crop of accessories that can help to organize your workspace and protect your iPhone 5. There's the AluCup... text/html 2013-04-23T23:32:57+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ The Animators Survival Kit comes to the iPad with expanded multimedia edition http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/23/the-animators-survival-kit-comes-to-the-ipad-with-expanded-multi/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/23/the-animators-survival-kit-comes-to-the-ipad-with-expanded-multi/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2013/04/animators-1366740531.jpg" /></a><br />Richard Williams acclaimed animation guide The Animator's Survival Kit has come to the iPad in an affordable new iPad app. Drawn from the book and DVD series of the same name, the US$34.99 app features a complete "Expanded Edition" of The Animator's Survival Kit, over 100 animated examples from the... text/html 2013-04-23T08:31:05+00:00 http://www.tuaw.com/ Logitech intros FabricSkin Keyboard Folio for iPad, Folio for iPad/iPad mini http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/23/logitech-intros-fabricskin-keyboard-folio-for-ipad-folio-for-ip/ <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/23/logitech-intros-fabricskin-keyboard-folio-for-ipad-folio-for-ip/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2013/04/logitechfabricskinkeyboardtuaw.jpg" /></a><br />Logitech's secret plans of dominating the world iPad accessories market continue. Today the company unveiled the new FabricSkin Keyboard Folio for iPad (US$149.95), a new line of attractive Bluetooth keyboards that provide full-sized keys that it says are "seamlessly fused into an interior fabric". At the same time, the company...