Google tablets may pass iPad with more accessibility
Tablet computers running Google Inc.’s Android will start taking sales from Apple Inc.’s iPad this holiday season and may surpass it in a few years as device makers…
eBooks and eReaders
Apple’s new iPad, iPhone software due in November
New software for Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch is on the way that reportedly will take care of a key problem keeping the devices from being more…
eTextbooks expected to grow with iPad on campus
Video and color graphics are key to why many people think Apple's iPad and other tablets will usher in the era of electronic textbooks, Reuters reports.
How the iPad is changing med school
First-year medical students at Stanford University are finding a bunch of ways to use the iPad to help them learn, Cult of Mac reports.
iPad competitors lining up
Starting this fall and stretching into early next year, big-name gadget and PC makers are readying their own touch-screen tablets to compete with Apple’s iPad, CNET reports.
Supporters of eBooks say they make readers less isolated, more social
Volumes have been written about technology's ability to connect people. But burying one's nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating, reports the Seattle Times—so what about…
Early iPad adopter to use art application this fall
Seton Hill University, one of the first campuses to board the Apple iPad bandwagon before the device was released in April, announced Aug. 23 that its art history…
Replacing a pile of textbooks with an iPad
A new company called Inkling hopes to break the standard textbook model and help textbooks enter the interactive age by letting students share and comment on the texts…
iPad: the new big gadget on campus
This fall, the hit course on some college campuses might very well be iPad 101, reports the Baltimore Sun.
E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad?
Four years ago Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink Corporation and Taiwan's Prime View International Co. hooked up to create an e-paper display that now supplies 90 percent of the…