Pope Benedict XVI has shared his very first word on Twitter from his account as he had earlier promised. He used an iPad to send the tweet which has already been retweeted thousands of times and it marks the start of a number of accounts in different languages which are all being followed by the Pope from his main account. (more…)Google+

Google has updated its Google Drive app with spreadsheet editing capabilities. The app lets you edit Google Sheets on your handheld device just like you can edit Google Docs and it comes to you as the holiday season approaches. (more…)Google+

Pre-orders for the iPad mini have gone live moments ago in a number of countries but most people are still bewildered about Apple’s move of discontinuing the ‘new’ iPad that was launched only earlier this year in favor of another ‘new’ iPad but has retained the iPad 2, which is already more than a year old. The fourth-generation iPad has minor changes over the model it replaces and will be casually called the iPad 4 in the market just like the previous generation iPad was called ...

Apart from launching the iPad mini, Apple also refreshed the iPad with some minor changes. The third-generation iPad has been replaced with the new fourth-generation iPad that has undergone no drastic design changes. Most of the changes are under the hood like a new Apple A6X chipset, which Apple claims is twice as fast as the A5X chipset found on the older iPad. Apple maintains that the fourth-generation iPad will retain the same 10 hour battery performance, which would mean we are also looking at a better b...

Apart from the dramatic entertainment that patent infringement lawsuits between Samsung and Apple provide, they often also give us rare insights into how things work at Apple. The latest one is a glimpse into the original iPad prototype Apple had created some time between 2002 and 2004; an era when tablets meant something a doctor would prescribe than an electronic gadget to play Angry Birds among other things! Apple’s design guru, Jonathan Ive’s deposition before a judge hearing the case where Ap...

The thought of Apple launching a smaller iPad is fast transforming from late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ nightmare to a widely accepted product that the iPad maker is working upon. Today NYT became the latest to claim the existence of an iPad mini, citing industry sources as well as an engineer who had worked on the prototype of a smaller iPad even before Apple had launched the iPad in 2010. (more…)Google+

Apple is preparing to launch a smaller iPad in October to take on tablets like Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7, Bloomberg reports. This is not the first time we are hearing plans about the “iPad Mini” but Bloomberg actually has a couple of sources on record talking about it along with the launch time line. (more…)Google+

Social networking giant Facebook is reportedly working on its Facebook Messenger app for iOS devices. According to 9to5mac, the Facebook Messenger app for iPad would essentially be a larger version of the iPhone application with one-to-one messaging, group chatting, push notifications, the ability to see friend locations on a map and more. (more…)Google+

The new iPad goes on sale in about 24 hours across 10 countries and the first reviews have been extremely positive across the board. Almost every reviewer has been blown away by the iPad’s Retina Display and battery performance, but things get slightly complicated when it comes to deciding whether an existing iPad 2 user should buy the new iPad. While we wait for our iPad unit to reach us, read on for our picks from some of the best iPad reviews out there. (more…)Google+

Apple on Tuesday circulated invitations to a press conference on March 7th where the Cupertino-based technology giant will unveil its next-generation iPad tablet. The event will be held in San Francisco rather than in New York, as had been reported earlier on Tuesday. Apple’s iPad 3 is expected to feature a high-definition 2,048 x 1,536-pixel Retina Display, a new quad-core Apple A6 processor, a larger battery, embedded 4G LTE connectivity, an 8-megapixel camera and an exterior design that is very sim...

As far as apps for the iPad go, Microsoft Office is perhaps the most illusive one. This has been the one killer app every business professional has aspired for. Today, The Daily has posted an exclusive story on Microsoft Office for the iPad, with an image punctuating the story. While we have no way of confirming the report, it sure looks legitimate as the image suggests an ‘Metro’ style splash screen for the iPad highlighting Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and also a Bing search bar in the bottom. (more...

ABC recently became the latest news organization to be given a look inside consumer electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn’s facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, and the Nightline special that resulted from the trip will air on Tuesday. In the meantime, ABC News has posted a 90-second teaser video containing footage from reporter Bill Weir’s trip to China. Apple, of course, is the only Foxconn partner mentioned in the preview so we can expect the forthcoming report to focus on the Cupertin...