Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools

Google announced a new education program that will help teachers manage and push out apps and other educational content to classroom Android tablets.

Dropbox thinks it’s like the iPad: Unexpectedly infiltrating the workplace

Dropbox vice president Sujay Jaswa says people should think of Dropbox like the iPad: a technology that may have been aimed at consumers but wound up infiltrating the work world.

Awesome fan-made Microsoft Surface commercial slams iPad (video)

While Apple finally put its iPad mini commercial out for public consumption over the weekend, some fans of Microsoft's new line of tablets have already started to produce spoofs.

Griping aside, Apple sells through initial iPad 4th generation units

While there were plenty of people decrying injustices of Apple rolling out a new version of its 10-inch iPad less than a year after it debuted the last one, it hasn't stopped people from buying iPads.

Apple by the numbers: 26.9M iPhones,14M iPads sold

It also announced that it'll start paying out dividends of $2.65 per common stock to its customers on Nov. 15 to all who are stockholder by the close of business on Nov. 12.

With iPad Mini & an updated iBooks Author, Apple finally has a chance to revolutionize the classroom

Apple CEO Tim Cook re-emphasized the company's interest in becoming *the* primary tool in the classroom today with the announcement of a new version of it's iBooks Author tool.

Leaked full-sized iPad photo shows new Lightning dock connector

A photo of what looks like the shell of a new 10-inch iPad have leaked online, which show off Apple's new 8-pin Lightning dock connector.

Weird apps: Buy Einstein’s brain for $9.99

Though Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicists in history, is long gone, his brain lives on. No, not zombie-style; slides of the man's brain came out in iPad app form today for anyone to study like a scientist.

RIP, desktop PC? Tablets penetrate U.S. market faster than electricity (infographic)

Tablets are growing at an unprecedented pace. The tablet market was born in April, 2010 with the launch of the iPad, and within 18 months, it had penetrated 11 percent of U.S. households. Check out this neat infographic on the meteoric rise of the tablet market.

We don’t know how to take vacations anymore

Just because you can Skype into a company meeting from a beach in Boracay, doesn’t mean you should.

Tourists are increasingly connecting to the Internet while on vacation, according to a recent study from Michigan State University. The walls between …

Apple shipped the most mobile PCs in the world, thanks to the iPad

Apple shipped 17.2 million mobile PCs in the first quarter of 2012, leading the world in units shipped by 22.5 percent, according to a study by NPD DisplaySearch.

You would think the market would be saturated by now, but Apple …

Apple chief Tim Cook pays a visit to Chinese Foxconn plant

Apple CEO Tim Cook made his first trip on Thursday to a Chinese Foxconn production facility that is charged with making the company’s ultra popular iPhones.

Cook’s visit comes after weeks of accusations that employees of the Foxconn plant(s) were …

Makeup retailer Sephora launches iPad program (exclusive)

Beauty retailer Sephora is testing an iPad program in select stores this month, inspired by what it believes is a close relationship between its customers and Apple.

The iPads have been introduced to 20 stores around the U.S. with the …

Apple, Foxconn and the FLA respond to ABC’s “iFactory”

Apple, Foxconn, and the Fair Labor Association have each responded to ABC’s “iFactory: Inside Apple” news special, which aired last night on ABC.

The iFactory Nightline episode told the story of Foxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads, iPhones, and …

Who needs a nanny? Parents turn to tablets to rear children

No nanny? No problem! Modern-day parents are increasingly employing tablets to entertain, teach, and occupy their children, according to survey data gathered by analytics firm Nielsen.

Seven out of 10 children under 12 (70 percent), in tablet-owning households used a …

Following heavy criticism, Apple announces new investigation into Foxconn labor conditions

Last month saw several big stories on poor working conditions at the factories in China where makes Apple products. Chief executive Tim Cook initially responded by saying that Apple had nothing to apologize for. Now Apple has announced a series …

Apple to dictate what equipment CIOs will buy in the next 2 years

Apple products, not cloud computing, will be the real force behind computer equipment sales in 2012, according to a report by analyst firm Forrester.

“Analysts have been predicting that cloud computing — specifically, infrastructure-as a service (IaaS) — will reshape …