If you blog, then this is welcome news. WordPress, the world’s most popular blogging platform, has just been updated to version 3.0. The combined work of 218 contributors over the past 6 months, it’s the thirteenth major WordPress release so far. Codenamed “Thelonius”, WordPress 3.0 has implemented a whole raft of new features and bug [...]
Putting aside all the issues with the current pricing of iPad magazines, these 5 brands show just why the iPad is revolutionizing the way we consume media. 1) Wired – $4.99 per issue Easily the most successful magazine on iPad to date, Wired is an example of what magazines for the iPad should be. Its [...]
Just like a proposal from a guy you’ve been dating a decade, we knew this one was coming it was just a matter of when. This morning Apple went ahead and made our love official by announcing iPhone 4. The newest member of the Apple family is slated to launch June 24th with quite a [...]
While it may not quite be the holy savior of Old Media as some would suggest, the iPad still holds a lot of promise for traditional publishers looking to profit from the switch to digital. The iPad provides publishers with a way to directly monetize their content, while also providing consumers with rich and easily [...]
ASUS has jumped headstrong into the emerging tablet market with three new devices, officially unveiled ahead of the Computex Show in Taiwan. In a direct assault on the Apple iPad, ASUS have announced two versions (10 and 12 inch) of the Eee Pad – a fully functional touch-screen tablet PC, loaded with an Intel Core [...]
It seems like after all the outrage over loss of privacy, Facebook has decided to add new privacy features to the site that allow users to keep their information, well private. Once huge bonus in the new features that will be added over the next few weeks is the ability to in one fatal swoop [...]
In just one week Apple’s What is iPad commercial jumped to the number four spot on Ad Age’s Viral Video Chart. With 929,681 counted views in the past week, it edged ahead of the seemingly ubiquitous Old Spice videos that may have inundated your inbox for the past few weeks. Where, though, is Google? Two [...]
SpaceKateGal confirmed last week that iPads are not allowed in Yankee Stadium. The device apparently falls into the laptop computers category as depicted below in the Stadium Security policies write up. The iPad rule is probably at least partly relevant to the MLB’s notoriously stingy copyright rules. The organization is famous for trying to pull [...]
Apple confirmed in a press release that Steve Jobs will take the stage at 10am on Monday June 7th at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Check back into Tapscape then for in depth coverage on the new iPhone and other conference specific revelations. See the full press release below: Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide [...]
It was May 22, 1980 when Japanese company Namco Bandai released Puck-Man. The game caught on like wildfire, but when it spread to America cautious minds realized the “P” might chip off of the gaming units leaving room for an expletive inspiring name. And so they called him Pac-Man. Google kicked off the party for [...]
Announced today in partnership with electronics giants Sony, Logitech and Intel, Google has unveiled a new product that aims to fully integrate television and the internet. It’s not the first time TV and the web have crossed paths, but Google believes that Google TV will be a big step forward for home entertainment; “Google TV [...]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned at Google’s I/O conference the past couple days, it’s that Google and Apple are still at each other’s throats in downright war. The Google I/O side of the battle started with snarly comments like “it turns out that on the internet, people use Flash” (Google VP of Engineering Vic [...]
Borders is set to challenge the Apple iPad, Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook with their own low cost e-reader, the new $149 Kobo. The Kobo, like the Kindle, is a light-weight device with a 6 inch monochrome e-ink display. This compares with the 9.7 inch full color display on the iPad, which can [...]
Last Friday Jeanniey Mullen stood in front of 500 people at the New York TimesCenter to present Zinio, a new media magazine reader app designed to bring the print world to life on digital devices. The Chief Marketing Officer wanted to show the way it feels to thumb through pages with the flick of a [...]
Following months of criticism from developers over Apple’s decision to shun Flash support from its mobile devices, Steve Jobs has hit-back at Adobe in an essay posted recently on the Apple website. Escalating the row between the two companies, Jobs stated that “Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers.” [...]
