Ipad

iPad to Make Emergency Phone Calls?

By Jeremy, Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010 a 12:23 pm

9to5mac.com has just posted a interesting little iPad tidbit -- it seems as if Apple's latest creation has the ability to make emergency calls.

The image above is a screen shot taken from within the iPad SDK emulator. To get to the emergency call screen the developer simply enabled the passcode lock and entered in the wrong password five times.

So why would Apple include this within the iPad? Is it a FCC thing because the iPad is a wireless device on a cellular network? Perhaps it's something left over from the iPhone and will be removed before launch? Our take is that if the iPad can make emergency calls, it can make regular calls and maybe not out of the box but with a little hackery.

iPhone Apps for the Oscars

By Staff, Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010 a 11:08 am

From official Oscars preparation to six-degress of separation, production information to ratings aggregation, the iTunes App Store has something for pretty much everyone. Here's a sampling of iPhone and iPod touch apps to keep you company during the 2010 Academy Awards.

AT&T: We'll Carry iPhone for "Quite Some Time", Variable Pricing, LTE in 2012

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010 a 7:44 am

According to the Wall Street Journal, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the opportunity, while speaking at an investor conference, to once again talk about the iPhone remaining on his network, and also touch on the iPad, problems in New York and San Francisco, variable pricing, and Apple's new darling, the iPad.

TiPb Apps 3.3: Brushes for iPhone (Macworld 2010)

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010 a 7:28 am

Live from Macworld 2010, Rene and Leanna talk to Steve Sprang about Brushes [$4.99 - iTunes link] for the iPhone and the iPad version he showed off during Apple's recent keynote.

Do You Want Apple to Stream Movies to Your iPhone, iPad From iTunes Cloud?

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 a 9:09 pm

According to CNET on Gizmodo, Apple is once again rumored to be considering a streaming, cloud-based (iTunes.com?) movie service.

Rumor: iPad Training March 10, Commercial March 15, Released March 26?

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 a 5:31 pm

The Examiner is claiming Apple will be training Apple Retail Store staff on the iPad starting March 10 followed by TV commercials to air starting March 15 (focusing on iBooks), and will likely be made available for sale March 26. (With overnight campers being rewarded with a "special gift").

The sources are said to be "insiders" and a SoCal Apple Store Manager who wishes (obviously) to remain anonymous.

Introducing the All New TiPb Forums!

By Jeremy, Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 a 12:10 pm

In today's From the Forums we'd like to introduce to you our new forum look and layout.

First, you may have noticed our little name switch to TiPb and domain switch to tipb.com. Likewise, you can now find our forums at http://forums.imore.com!

Second, with some new great Apple devices right around the corner it was time to change things up a little bit -- to help everyone find what they need faster and better.

Y-Combinator: We Think the iPad is Meant to be a Windows Killer

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 a 8:35 am

Y Combinator's sixth request for startups (RFS) is more than a little provocative, stating that they think Apple's upcoming iPad is meant to be a Windows [and Mac OS X?] killer:

Most people think the important thing about the iPad is its form factor: that it’s fundamentally a tablet computer. We think Apple has bigger ambitions. We think the iPad is meant to be a Windows killer. Or more precisely, a Windows transcender. We think Apple foresees a future in which the iPad is the default way people do what they now do with computers (and some other new things).

TiPb Apps 3.2 -- BeejiveIM for iPhone (Macworld 2010)

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 a 8:26 am

Live from Macworld 2010, Rene and Leanna talk to Kai Yu of Beejive about BeejiveIM [$9.99 - iTunes link] for the iPhone... and iPad, as well as multitasking and push notifications.