It has become quite apparent that iPads have revolutionized the consumer computing experience.  However, a newer trend emerging is the use of iPads in businesses around the world.  We have seen numerous uses to date, such as iPads being used as table menus at restaurants,   as point-of-sale devices to replace traditional cash registers, and as web browsing terminals at coffee shops. Recently, apps have been developed to allow business owners to convert their iPads into digital marketing devices.  Survey apps such as Polldaddy are also gaining in popularity.  link]. MORE >>

Besides Google Android, the tablet king Apple iPad is about to get a taut rival in Windows 8. Maybe, Google’s Android might not have overcome Apple iPad in number of products sold. But the open source firmware enjoys a clear edge over iPad in escalating popularity. But when it comes to Windows 8, iPad may be grounded on the fact that Microsoft’s firmware is more enterprise friendlier and innovative. New iPad Vs Windows 8 tablets. Apple has just unveiled its third generation iPad, called the new iPad. Windows 8 Vs iOS (iOS 6). MORE >>

While we had our own native apps that only ran on Mac, press and advertisers alike knew that Windows had the numbers - more users, more options and dramatically more software. Most of us Mac addicts were left to order out of catalogs instead of retail stores, quietly fixing our need like those with misunderstood fetishes, while Windows users gleefully got first-day shipments of PC titles with the latest games, office software, and multimedia. In time, our once pitiful position, a mere blip in software sales next to the incumbent behemoth, changed. Microsoft Word 6 for Mac. MORE >>

In a world where Apple not only sells their iPad (ranging from $400 - $900) and also controls the majority of the content that you can put on it from iTunes , why wouldn't they deploy a similar model to Amazon's in the hopes of owning the consumer by way of the hardware? The profit isn't in the hardware or software. The Kindle and the iPad could be free. advertising advertisingage amazon apple bestbuy bigdata businessmodel buyinghabit content ereader ipad itunes jeffbezos kindle lisautzschneider marketing media mediadollars mediaexecutive retail retailer traditionalmedia MORE >>

You're going to read, see and hear non-stop coverage of the iPad 2 today (and for the next few days). The bigger news is this: the iPad won't save you. On February 28th, 2011, PaidContent ran an article titled, Sir Martin Sorrell: Apple iPad Won't Save Us. Here's what he said about the iPad: "[The iPad's] not regarded as being the thing that's going to save us, the panacea to the problems of converting to a digital world. We have arrived at that moment in time when some of the best advertising agencies now look a whole lot more like a software start-up. MORE >>