Two wrongs don’t make a right, Mozilla’s chief counsel said Thursday when asked why his company hasn’t lambasted Apple, as it did Microsoft, for blocking rival browsers from its mobile operating system.
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Adobe’s head of security is applauding Apple’s move to block outdated versions of his company’s Flash Player.
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Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s assertion that the “iPad isn’t mobile”, the demand for a Facebook app, and the success of alternative Facebook apps for the iPad suggest that there is a need.

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If you buy a new 2013 Cadillac XTS this spring, you’re buying a car packed with the latest technology and styling.

And they’re even throwing in a free iPad.

Cadillac announced this week that it’s moving forward with technology and ditching its paperback car manual for something digital. The iPad makes perfect sense.

So when your local car salesman hands you the keys, he’ll also hand over your new iPad and take you through some of the car’s basic functions and its new CUE — Cadillac User Experience — technology. CUE is the automaker’s multimedia system, which lets the driver control music, navigation, OnStar and more.

Your iPad will include a MyCadillac app that essentially is a virtual CUE experience, so you can “test-drive” the technology before playing with it on the road.

Tech geeks are probably excited to know that they are giving away the latest generation iPad, but won’t be as excited that it’s WiFi only.

Last year Hyundai gave away iPads to people who bought its then-new Equus luxury sedan to promote going paperless. They’ve stopped the promotion, however.

For Cadillac, this is not a move to show how green or environmentally friendly they are by eliminating a paper manual. It’s about sex appeal. Sit down in your beautifully crafted leather driving seat and watch your salesman show you the technology on an iPad. It’s better customer service because it’s familiar to the car buyer.

Don’t think it’s familiar? Think again. While there are probably no stats out there, it’s probably safe to assume that most Cadillac owners (the new XTS starts at $ 45,000) are also iPad owners.

USA Today reported that Hyundai stopped their iPad promotion because buyers already had smartphones and iPads that they didn’t need another. This isn’t the case for Cadillac. They know their customers already have an iPad. They’re just making the experience of buying a Cadillac even more luxurious.

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Summer 2012 promises to be the season of tablet experimentation. Just about every tablet maker is expected to announce a new product in the next four months. The devices are likely to be smaller in the case of Apple, bigger in the case of Amazon.
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At three different events in three different U.S. cities 3LM, Symantec and Wyse Technology are all showing upgraded or new products to help IT staff better cope with the smartphones, tablets and other devices users are allowed to bring to work.
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The OfficeTime time-management desktop app has been upgraded with more than 100 improvements–and an eye on expanding its capabilities to the iPhone and iPad.

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Evernote’s penmanship was sloppy, so it took some handwriting lessons from Penultimate.

Productive iPad users rejoiced Monday when Evernote, the popular cloud-based note app, acquired Cocoa Box, the creator of Penultimate, the App Store’s most popular handwriting app.

“Our team has been working on handwriting recognition and digital ink forever and it feels like for the very first time, the experience of writing on a tablet is actually great,” Evernote reported on its blog. “That’s what Penultimate has done. Now that we can add Evernote’s technology and expertise, it’s about to get a lot more powerful.”

iPad notetakers now get to use the world’s best handwriting app and sync everything with the world’s best note-syncing app. While it may have already held the title, this partnership between apps truly makes the iPad the most efficient and best tablet to take handwritten notes on.

Evernote currently supports audio and text notes, as well as speech-to-text notes, but until now, it hasn’t had an avenue to store, understand and sync handwritten notes. Pretty much any idea — no matter the form — can now always be remembered using Evernote.

While this is great news for fans of Penultimate and Evernote, let’s face it: handwriting on an iPad is really difficult. Maybe it’s just for this blogger, but I have pretty good handwriting on paper, but when I put my finger to work on a screen, legibility is questionable. Maybe I need a stylus.

Or maybe a tablet needs to become even more handwriting friendly? This acquisition may have laid down the challenge for other tablet manufacturers to think of a better tablet specifically designed for productivity, especially with handwriting notes. One of the key components of the Evernote-Penultimate acquisition was that the popular 99-cent handwriting app will now show up in the Android Market and likely on Windows 8. Wherever Evernote is, Penultimate will follow.

As a firm believer in the free market, I welcome the challenge. Who knows, maybe this is the first day of the end of yellow legal pads. We can only hope.

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Microsoft has revealed that Windows 8 tablets powered by ARM chips will be no easier to manage in the enterprise than iPads are.
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