With less than three weeks to go until the rumored unveiling of Apple’s upcoming iPad 3 tablet, new rumors have surfaced suggesting that the new tablet will be launched with a new and faster processor. New iPad 3 rumors claim that the tablet will be powered by an Apple A5X processor, countering speculations that the company will announce the A6 chip. A photo that was released by Chinese Apple news site WeiPhone shows the guts of an iPad 3 with the installed A5X chip. “A date code of “1146” on the A5X indicates that...
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After battling those green pigs we all hate (or love because of their cuteness) so much, space will be the next fighting grounds for our beloved Angry Birds. Game development company Rovio, creator of the smash hit Angry Birds, said that the next part of the Angry Birds saga will be taking place in space. The company even made a teaser site for it. “Angry Birds Space is a completely new game with innovative new gameplay, but with some of the familiar Angry Birds elements that fans already know and love — plus some surprises,”...
Apple will be unveiling the iPad 3, the company’s upcoming tablet, next month, according to a post in Apple news blog iMore. Rene Ritchie of iMore reported that Apple is planning to announce the new iPad on March 7 in an event in San Francisco. Ritchie has cited sources “who have been reliable in the past.” The report also stated the tablet’s specs, saying that it will feature a quad-core Apple A6 chip and 4G LTE networking. Some sources say that the upcoming iPad will have a retina display (2048 x 1536 pixels),...
Apple Inc. has reported record fiscal fourth quarter 2011 and first quarter 2012 earnings today. For the last quarter, the company has posted revenue of $46.33 billion and net profit of $13.06 billion, compared to the revenue of $26.7 billion (net profit of $6 billion) in the year-ago period. The company’s gross margin last quarter was 44.7 percent, compared to 38.5 percent of the same period last year. For the first time ever, Apple has surpassed Hewlett Packard (HP) in both revenue and computer unit sales. It has been revealed...
Music recording apps for the iPad are becoming more and more popular these days as developers and manufacturers release new software and hardware on a regular basis. Now Wave Machine Labs are announcing their latest Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for the iPad, the Auria. Music making apps for the iPad are currently seen as more useful alongside musicians’ main recording rig rather than instead of them. This perception, however, may be changed with this new app. Wave Machine Labs’ Auria is a a 48-track iPad music production...
The World’s Top 100 Brands list was just recently released by Interbrand and found that electronics giant Apple Inc. rose up to 8th place, showing high revenue due to the increasing popularity of the company’s products. Apple Inc., which was ranked 17th last year, rose to 8th place as its value increased to $22.49 billion from $21.14 billion a year before. Google is also included in the top 10 that has direct interests in the telecommunications industry. The search giant stil ranks at number four, not moving since 2010. The...
Paddy Power, a United Kingdom-based betting company, has started taking bets on what Apple will talk about in its announcement this week in New York. The tech giant only revealed that the event will be about an “education announcement,” and techies around the world have been speculating as to what the company has in store for them. Given the event’s theme, it is rather not surprising that the most people bet on “Electronic/Digital textbooks” at 1/6, with the “iPad Lite” at second with 6/1 and the...
A new report came out claiming that Apple has the iPad 3 ready and was seen at this year’s CES event. iLounge’s Editor in Chief Jeremy Horwitz, who was known for seeing early prototypes of an iPad 2 case last year, reported that he has once again seen the next-generation tablet offering from Apple. Horwitz reported that the new iPad is not that different from its predecessor, the iPad 2. From a distance, it’s hard to tell them apart, and it is like comparing the iPad 3 and from the iPhone 4S and 4. However, he said that...
Lots of Android tablets have been released, but none of them have come near the Apple iPad when it comes to controlling the market, and it seems that the biggest of them all is Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which was developed by the company to barely look like an Android tablet. Now, search giant and Android maker Google may be working on its own tablet PC that will rival not Apple’s iPad, but Amazon’s tablet offering. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, said in December that the company is planning to release a...
Diggers of software have discovered that Apple’s new iOS beta, the iOS 5.1 beta, will be supporting quad core chipsets. According to 9 to 5 Mac, a hidden panel within the code of the beta reveals the processors the iOS 5.1 can handle. The code referenced a “/cores/core.3” device, which means that its processor has four cores. “While not quite confirming that a quad-core processor will power Apple’s third-generation iPad, we have obtained evidence that suggests Apple is currently working on quad-core iOS devices,”...