The ad campaign was created by TBWA Media Arts Lab. 

As noted by Ad Age, each of five print ads features a different magazine's cover at the left, and the same cover within an iPad Mini at the right, with a small Apple logo and the tiny words iPad Mini at the bottom. 

The covers were from real issues of Time, Surfer, Wired, the New Yorker an... Continue reading >>

The Cupertino-based Black Pearl Systems has been assembling a killer team that is out to “create a category-defining product to tackle a problem that faces billions of technology users,” the company says in its job postings.

One of its first hardware products will likely be an Android tablet. GigaOM reports seeing photos of a tablet that looks similar to the phased-out Sony Tablet S, com... Continue reading >>

With tablets in hand, how can sales managers centrally manage and update content so sales teams can share, present and track content? Skura says it has incorporated all of these attributes in its SFX product line. Established in 1996 the company boasts licenses to more than 30,000 sales representatives supporting over 100 brands in 34 countries around the world.

Historically, sales teams gathered frequently in offices to pick up rate card... Continue reading >>

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is currently testing the new tablet with new chips from Qualcomm but adds that Nvidia will “continue as a supplier for some versions”, which presumably includes the existing model with its Tegra 3 chipset.

In a separate article and citing “sources familiar to Microsoft’s Surface plans”, Continue reading >>

The Los Angeles Times reports that the district’s board approved the deal in a unanimous vote on Tuesday and says that the district will pay $678 for each iPad, which will come pre-loaded with education software.

These iPads will make their way to all students at 47 campuses in the L.A. Unified School District.

This news is a huge win for Apple, not only beca... Continue reading >>

Founded by a number of former Microsoft executives who used to work on the now-canned Courier tablet project, FiftyThree has won numerous accolades over the last year for Paper, which Apple named as the best iPad app of 2012.

But the smaller tablet movement is just getting started. 

DisplaySearch expects tablets with screen sizes smaller than 9 inches to account for two-thirds (66%) of all tablet shipments for the year. 

But the percentage should actually be bigger for the second half of 2013 when a series of new 8-inch tablets (including new Windows 8 models) are expected to debut as well as a new version of the iPad Mini this fall. 

Only last year, the tablet PC market was ... Continue reading >>

The company now offers its first native iPad application, enhanced its existing iPhone application and upgraded its iOS software development kit.

Jive also upgraded a special iPad app it has for sales teams called Jive Present, and developed an Android version of it that will be available next month.

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If that's the case, several third party alternatives are available. 

Dictonic, for example, is a free voice recording tool with a social sharing core that lets you share recordings directly to Facebook and Twitter. The app also features a number of voice changing effects and supports photographic and text notes... Continue reading >>

But of those mostly working with budgets under $1 million, 38% of 145 executives surveyed in Q1  feel that they don't have enough to fund their mobile efforts to be successful, according to research by Forrester. 

Three-quarters of businesses say they have a mobile-optimized site, and nearly all say they will have one by the end of 2013. About a third (31%) have an HTML5-powered mobile site, with 64% planning to launch one by year’s... Continue reading >>