Category Archives: tablet

Avenza PDF Maps Featured On Discovery Channel, Planet You

This awesome as our good friend and colleague Ted Florence, CEO of Avenza Systems gets some awesome air time on the Discovery Channel program Planet You. Ted shows off PDF Maps and touts the merits of working with mobile devices … Continue reading

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War Horse Journey Time Map by Dreamworks and Microsoft (Bing)

A new movie promotional effort has been put together for Dreamworks and Microsoft (Bing) for the movie War Horse – the entire project done using AJAX.  This from the developers… After months of research into the battlefields of World War … Continue reading

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First Look – Foursquare Adds More Functionality To The Big Screen User (Tablet) with #new4SQ

Some big changes from foursquare today as shared on their blog as the company rolls out some major new enhancements. Touted as #new4SQ the service now appears to be placing much more emphasis on local search and discovery. Although you … Continue reading

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Encyclopaedia Britannica now available as an iPad App

Here’s a cool resource for your iPad for you and the kids as Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. announced today its  encyclopedia is now available as an iPad App. About the app… Users have two choices to access the app.  The first choice … Continue reading

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The New, 7 Inch Impression Android Tablet To Compete With Kindle Fire Entry Point

Perhaps you aren’t a die-hard tablet user – yet! However, there’s a new, entry level android device that might convince you to pick up your first tablet device – enter the Impression 7. The device is a 7″ Android OS … Continue reading

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iPad Geo Apps – Avenza Systems free PDF Maps viewer (Video)

Avenza Systems, Ontario Canada has a terrific, free PDF maps viewer app for iPad. The app is ideal for viewing Geospatial PDF maps, tens of thousands available from the PDF Maps store, and can be used on or offline for … Continue reading

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iPads delivered 97.2 percent of all tablet traffic in the U.S in August

Some interesting stats on the consumption of digital data by iPad users come from the latest research out of Comscore.  Of interest, iPads dominate among tablets in driving digital traffic. In August 2011, iPads delivered 97.2 percent of all tablet … Continue reading

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Are you using your tablet for work related tasks?

Theres no question that many of us are now toting around tablets (like the iPad I’m currently using) but are we using these handy devices to their potential yet, or simply using them as our news reader, email client, and … Continue reading

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Adobe Rolls Out Suite of Apps for iOS and Android Tablet

Today at the live streamed MAX event, Adobe unveiled their portfolio of “creative cloud apps” which include several apps specifically for the Tablet user – first Android then iOS coming shortly after. The apps address multiple areas of the creative … Continue reading

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Amazon Kindle Fire – Hot or Not?

No Replacement for the iPad But Pretty Darned Sweet – As could be expected, speculation and blogging is rampant with many stories and pseudo “reviews” coming out, many of them touting the next “iPad killer”. Well indeed, Amazon is making … Continue reading

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Here It Is – The All-New Kindle Family From Amazon

You’ve been hearing about all the speculation for some time now, well the day is here… today Amazon rolled out details of the new Kindle family of devices.  The New Products include: New latest generation Kindle – world’s bestselling e-reader … Continue reading

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The Feature Packed ThinkPad Tablet PC (Android)

The new Thinkpad Tablet has been released for those interested in this latest Android OS device. ThinkPad sells for about $499, runs Android 3.1, has a full size USB port, digitizer pen support, comes pre-bundled with loads of apps (including … Continue reading

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