Apple's (AAPL) most-favored tech writers got it last week and have now weighed in
The Wall St. Journal's Walt Mossberg: A Million More Pixels Than HDTV. "The key upgrades are to those core features — the 9.7-inch screen and the data speed over cellular networks. These upgrades are massive. Using the new display is like getting a new eyeglasses prescription — you suddenly realize what you thought looked sharp before wasn't nearly as MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 15, 2012 5:53 AM ET
Planned sales of competing tablets were falling even before the new iPad was revealed
This was supposed to be the year that Apple (AAPL) started losing market share in the rapidly growing tablet market.
That may be happening among consumers, if you count the Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire as a full-fledged tablet. But there's no sign of it happening in the enterprise.
In fact, a ChangeWave survey of 1,604 business IT buyers conducted MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 13, 2012 9:01 AM ET
An unauthorized preview, three days before Apple-sanctioned sales begin
Despite Apple's (AAPL) best efforts to keep a lid on the thing, a pair of Vietnamese bloggers managed to get their hands on a new iPad and post a 4-minute unboxing video on YouTube.
You need some fluency in Vietnamese to follow the commentary, but not to get the gist. The larger camera, the 4G designation and the LTE option in network settings MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 13, 2012 8:18 AM ET
Despite one report suggesting a lukewarm response, demand seems to be intense
We got an e-mail Friday from an Israeli site called Drippler with what looked like bad news for Apple's (AAPL) new iPad:
Only 26% of Drippler users who own the 1st generation iPad plan on upgrading, while just 28% of iPad 2 owners will be getting the new iPad.
Given that Apple had sold 55 million iPads 1 and 2 as MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2012 10:40 AM ET
Most seem to be even more impressed with the latest tablet than the tech press was
RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky: 'New iPad' - Incremental? Really? We would argue it will maintain Apple's Tablet dominance, especially when considered in context with Apple's powerful ecosystem (iTunes, iTunes Store, iCloud, iOS, App Store, carrier/store distribution, etc)... The new iPad raises the performance bar, with the highest resolution screen on a tablet and the A5X processor MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 8, 2012 7:29 AM ET
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AOL plans to layoff several hundred employees starting today in editorial and other media product groups, as well as jobs in India -- areas like network and ad sales should remain unaffected. The move comes as AOL restructures its editorial division after MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 10, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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"It was like being punched in the stomach." - Jack Dorsey on getting replaced as Twitter CEO by Evan Williams in 2008 (Vanity Fair)
Twitter creator and Square founder Jack Dorsey is profiled in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Among the new revelations: his fortune may MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 4, 2011 8:31 AM ET
Details about the real iPad 2 and all the rumors, mockups, and premature criticism that got us here, along with the reappearance of the visionary force behind Apple Inc.
Try racking your brain for a device more crowed about, lusted over, or prematurely criticized than Apple's (AAPL) iPad 2. (We know. Pretty hard.) That's probably because, over the last six months, media outlets everywhere gave voice to even the most outré rumors, design MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 2, 2011 2:32 PM ET
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The Telegraph reports that Steve Jobs was reportedly blocked from knighthood because the Apple CEO refused an invitation to speak at the Labour Party conference. (Other notable honorary knights include Bill Gates and Apple collaborate-U2 frontman Bono.) The info comes from a former senior Labour Party MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 2, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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Sources tell The Wall Street Journal that AOL is considering layoffs as part of its new management structure integrating the Huffington Post, though no details yet on timing or just how many employees would be affected. While Arianna Huffington will serve as the newly-christened Huffington Post MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 25, 2011 7:28 AM ET