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  • Hands-On With iPhoto for iOS: Far From Picture-Perfect
    After announcing the new iPad will feature the same awesome camera found in the iPhone 4S, Apple celebrated the immediate availability of iPhoto for iOS. The new app has separate iPad and iPhone iterations, and while one shows potential, the other makes you want to give up photography altogether.
    03.08.12
  • Microsoft Raises Red Flag Over OnLive's Windows for iPad
    The OnLive Desktop -- a tool that streams a virtual Windows desktop onto Apple iPads and Android devices -- is apparently in violation of the licensing terms for Microsoft's flagship operating system. "We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved," Joe Matz, corporate vice president of worldwide licensing and pricing at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Wednesday.
    03.08.12
  • The New iPad: How Wired Staffers' Predictions Held Up
    As you no doubt know by now, Apple unveiled its new iPad to the world on Wednesday to much ado. So now that we know how the myriad rumors have held up to what was actually unveiled, it's time to check in on how Wired did in reading the tea leaves. Which of our staff aced the pre-release predictions?
    03.08.12
  • Apple Sneaks Out Free Tool for Deploying iPad Army
    Apple has released a free tool that allows schools, businesses, and other operations to configure and deploy large numbers of iPads and iPhones. The tool was not mentioned when Apple unveiled its latest iPad during a press event in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, but it's now available from the company's online Mac App Store.
    03.07.12
  • Hands-On With the New 1080p Apple TV
    Today, Apple introduced its new 1080p Apple TV, and after the media event concluded, we got a brief chance to check out its improved user interface and some of its new features for ourselves. Overall, the new Apple TV experience is snappy and intuitive thanks to its A5 processor and new design, and largely improves on the 2010 version.
    03.07.12
  • With Google Play, the Cloud Goes Prime Time
    If you've dismissed Google Play as just a rebranding of various Google media sites, Wired.com's Mike Isaac dispels that notion, calling it "Google¿s iTunes moment." But a bigger takeaway on Google Play is that the cloud has gone prime time on Channel G, making for a critical mass of cloud consumers.
    03.07.12
  • Woz Spends iPad Launch Day on IBM's Cloud
    Everyone on the internet seemed to be liveblogging or reading liveblogs of Apple's iPad 3 launch event on Wednesday. Everyone, that is, except for Apple founder and number-one fanboy Steve "Woz" Wozniak. He was in Las Vegas, hanging out with the IBM data center geeks at its Pulse 2012 conference.
    03.07.12
  • What the New iPad Won't Do
    I watched the iPad 3/HD announcement this morning with a technofile friend of mine and we were blown away by the new features: Retina screen, the A5X chipset, iSight and 4G LTE support. I¿m salivating now, even writing about it. Yet its true power is held back by large enterprise software corporations that cannot keep pace with the new devices designed with cloud computing in mind, writes Alexander Haislip.
    03.07.12
  • Tim Cook¿s Leadership Opportunity: Painting the Apple Green
    Apple CEO Tim Cook may never be able to compete with the myth of Steve Jobs, but he now has a golden opportunity to fix two things Apple's brilliant and mercurial founder got wrong: workers' rights in China and outsourcing. Should he do it, he'll place his own indelible mark on the brand, while also serving shareholders and consumers.
    03.07.12
  • The iPad Rumor Scorecard: Who Got It Right?
    Speculation about what the latest iPad would feature has run rampant since late last year. We revisit rumors about the new iPad to see who was right and who was wrong.
    03.07.12
  • Live Blog: Apple Unveils Hi-Res, Quad-Core, 4G iPad
    Ready or not, Apple has another device in store for the world, and the Cupertino, California, company will unveil it for the first time on Wednesday morning. We'll be live at the Yerba Buena Center in downtown San Francisco to feed you the news right as it happens.
    03.07.12
  • How a Quad-Core Chip Would Supercharge iPad Performance
    One of the most tenable iPad 3 rumors has the new device running a quad-core processor. An iPad running a quad-core chip should blow the doors off the current dual-core iPad 2, but how exactly? And will our iOS apps have to be updated to leverage a quad-core chip's unique talents?
    03.06.12
  • The iPad 3 and the Future of the Web
    The iPad 3 is likely to arrive tomorrow. That means new challenges for the web, which is increasingly important to the app-centric world of iOS. This could be the future of the web: less visible, less obvious, less about the browser, but essential for connecting everything together.
    03.06.12
  • Amazon Offers High Bounties for Used iPads on Eve of Apple Announcement
    Unless Apple is setting us up for a curve ball, millions of people will buy a new iPad sometime shortly after Wednesday's anticipated iPad 3 announcement. And if you're among the millions who already have a first- or second-generation iPad and you're looking to upgrade, maybe your first stop shouldn't be an Apple Store, but rather Amazon.com.
    03.06.12
  • March 6, 1992: False Alarm
    The Michelangelo virus is unleashed upon the quivering computer-using masses. In the end, a yellow-striped kitten could have done more damage.
    03.06.12
  • A Dime Bag of Photoshop
    The iPad version of Photoshop doesn't have all the features of the desktop version, but hey, it's only ten bucks.
    03.06.12


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