It’s no secret – the newspaper industry is facing some pretty tough times. Print subscription volumes have been slowly declining year over year, and with it follow print advertising revenues. While many of them have made the transition to online versions and subscription models, they’re still finding difficulty making the it work. Moreover, the online experience has a number of shortcomings compared to its print sibling; desktop news sites have … Read More

The Wall Street Journal is reporting sources have told them Apple is set to announce iPad-optimized textbooks at its upcoming media event this Thursday set to take place in New York City:

McGraw-Hill has been working with Apple on its announcement since June, a person familiar with the matter said. It wasn’t known whether Pearson and Houghton Mifflin also would participate.

Cengage Learning, one of the world’s largest higher-education textbook publishers, … Read More

Update 1: Elliott from Future Shop responded and told us only the official statement given to CTV was the one they are providing to outlets. Here’s an update from the Future Shop Community site:

Recently, several instances of fraud concerning the iPad2 were reported to various store locations in BC. In these cases, the original iPad 2 product had been removed from the packaging, and replaced with a slab of clay, … Read More

Jeremy Horwits, the Editor-in-Chief of iLounge, claims to have had a hands-on experience with next-generation iPad a.k.a the iPad 3 at CES 2012 (via MacTrast). Even though he’s apparently willing to share all the juicy details, he didn’t see the screen of the device, which, considering that many are expecting Apple to include a Retina display in the iPad 3, would likely have been quite the highlight.

Horwits describes what … Read More

According to the latest report from Bloomberg, the next generation iPad 3 will have a higher resolution screen and connect to LTE networks.

Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s next iPad, expected to go sale in March, will sport a high-definition screen, run a faster processor and work with next-generation wireless networks, according to three people familiar with the product.

The company’s manufacturing partners in Asia started ramping up production of … Read More

OnLive Desktop for iPad has just gone live in the App Store and is now available as a free download. The app provides instant access to an iPad optimized cloud-based Windows desktop complete with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint allowing Office documents to be viewed, created and edited. Users do however need an account with OnLive to use the program. Both free and paid plans are available offering upto 50GB of storage and priority access. … Read More

A new report by a Korean publication Electronic Times Internet News (via 9to5Mac ) has just hit the internet, which directly conflicts with an earlier report by Macotakara that claimed iPad 3 would be launched in early March with displays from Sharp. According to this new publication, Sharp has “failed to pass Apple’s approval process for mass production”. The report also suggests that Samsung and LG have already started mass production of iPad 3 panels as … Read More

More next generation iPad rumours are coming your way, this time from Macotakara. According to their sources from China, pre-production is already under way by Foxconn and Pegatron (Google Translation):

According to sources in China, Foxconn Technology and Pegatron Technology are the next as the iPad begin production at a rate of 85% and 15% same as the number of manufacturing planning iPhone 4S. This is the Chinese New Year in 2012, earlier … Read More

Last week we heard iLounge editor Jeremy Horwitz tweet about what he was hearing from his sources about the upcoming changes in the next generation iPad 3. Now, he has claimed one day before CES he has ‘seen’ what is supposedly the next iPad, and describes the changes:

Here’s the scoop on what companies believe Apple will announce in the next two months. The new iPad’s body is so … Read More

Ah…another year, another set of Apple rumours to steep in, and let’s say 2012 has yet to disappoint! Kara Swisher of All Things D is reporting that Apple will be holding a press event in New York this month focusing on iBooks and a possible publishing platform. If all the buzz will live up to expectations, Apple may finally be ready to disrupt the publishing space like Amazon did with … Read More