The Financial Post reports a story about an iPad competitor designed in Quebec that came out on Wednesday.

The article says that the Vibe is powered by a modified Windows 7 OS.

The Vibe is wider, has a webcam, USB ports, an SD card reader and an HDMI Port.

Is it an iPad killer? I doubt it, but depending on how powerful the processor is and how limited the OS is … Read More

Can you believe it’s been a year? The iPad was released with a mountain of skepticism and has turned into the hit product of 2010. With almost 15 million iPads sold in 2010, the iPad has built an insurmountable lead on its competitors.

The iPad has changed the way I check email, read news, plays games, and more. It can go where my laptop could not go before comfortably, and … Read More

The Loop Insight has announced that Apple and News Corp. has begun sending out press invites to announce the launch of the iPad-only newspaper, The Daily. This newspaper is by Robert Murdoch’s News Corp., and will only be available on the iPad.

According to the invitation received by The Loop on Thursday, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch will be joined by Apple’s Vice President of Internet Services, Eddy … Read More

This week, Apple released a new iPad commercial entitled “iPad is Iconic”.

The ad is airing on prime-time television and has also been posted to Apple’s YouTube page.

As with previous iPad commercials, this new ad offers a similar soundtrack and theme of displaying quick shots of the iPad’s features.

Check it out:

Strange things are happening at the top of the tech world. Steve Jobs takes another leave of absence from Apple, and Google’s Eric Schmidt steps aside for Larry Page as CEO is bound to make ripples in the tech industry. However, what does this all mean for the mobile and tablet space?

Apple’s already had a history without Steve Jobs, and while the company has a mixed history without Jobs at … Read More

An unofficial tracker from Shawn Dubrovac has revealed the numerous companies that had some type of tablet computing device at CES, following the massive success of the iPad.

The extensive list details at least 100 tablets and crossover eReaders that have shipped (or are about to ship). From Blackberry’s PlayBook to Motorola’s Xoom, the list reveals the many available “iPad Killers”, but there are also some tablets that the list does … Read More

This week, the Apple Canada Online Store has posted “special limited time” pricing on refurbished iPads.

At this time, only 16, 32 and 64GB Wi-Fi models are available. Pricing is $479 for 16GB, $549 for 32GB and $649 for 64GB. At these prices, the iPad is much cheaper than buying it new, which costs $549, $649, and $749 for the 16, 32, and 64GB iPad, respectively.

Each refurb iPad includes a one … Read More

Another day, another iPad 2 camera rumor!

Digging through the latest iOS 4.3 Beta 2 SDK release, 9To5Mac reports that the next-generation iPad, codenamed “K94″, may not feature a 5-megapixel camera, as found on the iPhone 4.

Instead, the unreleased device may take photos using a 1-megapixel camera, with 720p video recording. For comparison, the fourth-generation iPod touch features a 0.7 megapixel rear camera with 720p video recording.

The front-facing camera on the … Read More

This week, the National Post has announced its second offering for the iPad, the Financial Post Magazine app!

The app is a fully-featured magazine app, taking full advantage of the iPad’s large display and Multi-Touch interface. This makes for a comfortable reading experience with exclusive embedded multimedia content including video, photo galleries and time lines.

The app also features Financial Post’s award-winning editorial content and features.

“The content and design of the Financial … Read More

This week, Apple updated its iWork for iPad productivity suite to version 1.3.1. The update addresses various bug fixes found in version 1.3.

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The 1.3.1 update fixes an issue with the predictive text menu when using Chinese or Japanese characters

Numbers

The 1.3.1 updated fixed an issues where new cell values would not be saved when Numbers was quit and restarted. The updated also patched issues where an invalid Region Format in iOS … Read More