iPad Articles

The iPad ( /ˈaɪpæd/ EYE-pad) is a line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, apps and web content. Its size and weight fall between those of contemporary smartphones and laptop computers. The iPad runs on iOS, the same operating system used on Apple’s iPod Touch and iPhone, and can run its own applications as well as iPhone applications. Without modification or a dev...

Android Tablets Make Waves, But Is It Too Late To Catch iPad?

When the original iPad launched, there was a great deal of skepticism regarding it's viability--was the world ready for tablet computing? Clearly, Apple has been proven right in that matter, laughing all the way to the bank. And the reviews and early sales of iPad ...

Time Warner Cable's New iPad App Sounds Incredibly Dumb

The cable companies & broadcasters are doing everything they can to resist change and save the existing business model. Even as consumers clamor for a la carte options and more online capabilities, the cable companies keep distorting that vision. The latest move comes from Time Warner ...

We Already Have The World's First iPad 2 Movie

You may remember Majek Pictures--the filmmaking duo of Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel. They're the ones that made waves last June by shooting and editing a short film, "Apple of My Eye," entirely on the iPhone 4. That film has nearly a million views ...

The Online Video Weekly News Reel - 13 March 2011

This was a busy week as I was in both Prague and Hamburg. Then when I returned the Wisconsin government had gone and done something illegal, Japan had been hit by a massive earthquake and then a tsunami and well, the world just seemed to ...

Ways to Stream Your Home Video Content to your iOS Devices

JetStreamHD believe that they have the solution to you watching all that content you have amassed on your PC and want on your iPad2 via their new product, creatively named, JetStreamHD. It's really just a media server but they claim it to be "the world's ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Is it really Friday already? Another week is in the books, and it's time to round up the best of the viral success stories from this week. We have animals (honestly, you simply can't publish a list of top viral videos without including animal clips ...

Did Apple Cheap Out On The iPad 2 Video Cameras? Yes & No

The iPad 2 was only announced five days ago, and won't ship until late this week, but already we're seeing the beginnings of a small backlash against the device's two cameras. The strongest criticism comes from Wired, in an article entitled "Just How Bad Is ...

Apple Announces The iPad They Should Have Released A Year Ago

Apple just made Xoom's road to success a lot harder, by announcing the iPad 2. Apple's big product announcement event today has garnered a ton of press, and rightly so. You'll never guess what they announced... A new iPad! Called the iPad 2! And guess what?! ...

Motorola's Honeycomb-Based Xoom: The Most Attractive Tablet Device for Video Is Available Now

One of the most anticipated devices in the emerging tablet market, the Motorola Xoom, is now available for preorder at BestBuy.com. The Xoom will be the first device to feature the new Honeycomb version of the Android operating system, which was specifically designed with tablet ...

The 2010 Online Video Report Card - Consumption Grows Across The Board

comScore compiled 2010 into a new report called The 2010 U.S. Digital Year in review. In the report, as you might guess, they take a look at the U.S. Digital Media Industry. How did the year fare? ComScore says it was a year of, "renewed ...

Honeycomb Tablets Are Already Better Than iPads... for Video Marketers

Remember when the iPad was announced, and I wrote about how useless it seemed for people like us that deal with video all the time? Most readers skipped the fact that I was writing about the device from a video standpoint and just labeled me ...

Best Viral Video Ad: LG's "Tasteless" Optimus Pad Commercial

We talked yesterday about the new LG Optimus 3D--it's a mobile device built with the partnership of YouTube that allows users to record, view, or upload 3D video. There is another Optimus device, though, in the land of LG--a tablet device called the Optimus Pad. ...

How To Stream Video From A Smartphone or Tablet To The TV

With the rapid rise in tablet and smartphone adoption, a number of apps and tech tools have emerged that allow users to stream videos from their mobile devices back to the TV. They include Airplay, Skifta, Eyecon, Rovi and Snapstick. For the rundown on how ...

Video Is The Fastest Growing Mobile Application: 2/3rds of All Mobile Data In 2015

Cisco released their Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update just the other day and they have adjusted their predictions for online video usage over the next five years. Due to rapid uptake of tablets, smartphones and the expected superphones, they predict ...

Comcast Gets into Video Streaming Apps, Flaunts FCC Restrictions?

Yes, it was inevitable, another giant of broadcasting has created another app and tossed it into the ring to vie for online video viewer attention further diluting the market, further splitting our attention and further cluttering your iOS device home screens. I smell a conspiracy ...