In today’s edition of the worldwide courtroom drama that is Apple versus everybody, the iPhone and iPad maker is going on the offensive in Australia — while suffering a pretty serious setback in Germany. Motorola had sued Apple in Germany for infringement of a patent related to email account synchronization. A judge has ruled in Motorola’s favor for the second time…

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Apple announced recently that it shipped a whopping 15.4 million iPads in the most recent quarter, with iPads outselling Mac computers by a margin of nearly 3 to 1. But how does the iPad fare against the onslaught of tablets running Android, Windows, or other operating systems? Pretty well, actually. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, about 26.8…

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Digital books offer a number of advantages over paper books. You can carry around hundreds of books in your pocket. eReaders tend to be thinner and lighter than a hardcover book. And you can search for text, share passages, or jump to any page in an eBook. But there are still a few things that I find tough to do…

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Over and over I hear from tablet makers that there’s not really a tablet market yet… there’s an iPad market. While it seems like every day a new Android tablet is announced, nobody is selling as many tablet as Apple yet — and Apple’s numbers just keep growing. The company released its quarterly earnings report today — and announced that…

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Apple wants to re-invent the textbook for the digital age. The company unveiled iBooks 2 for the iPad today, with support for digital textbooks that make use of nifty new features including video 3D animations, image galleries, and other features that your old physics textbook would scoff at. Digital textbooks are also easier to keep up to date than their…

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Amazon has pushed out an updated version of its Kindle app for iOS, and it adds features that had previously only been available on the Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle E Ink devices. Kindle 2.9 for iOS  lets iPad users can now read magazines from the Kindle Store as well as digital reproductions of textbooks. But iPhone and iPod touch…

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It wasn’t that long ago that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that Apple had no plans to release a tablet with a 7 inch screen, because existing iPad apps wouldn’t run well and developers wouldn’t want to write apps for 3.5 inch, 7 inch, and 9.7 inch screen. But we’re living in a post-Jobs world, where the 7 inch…

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When a judge holds up a Samsung Galaxy Tab and iPad side-by-side and the company’s own lawyers can’t tell the difference, you know things aren’t going well. Fortunately, Apple was kind enough to offer up a few helpful hints for the design crew at Samsung to assist them in their quest to avoid future litigation. Some of Apple’s suggestions are…

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Skype has pushed out a new version of its voice, video, and text chat app for iOS. Now anyone with a supported iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad can use a Bluetooth headset to make calls from the Skype app — but the most impressive new feature is image stabilization. Now when you’re shooting video through the rear-facing camera on an…

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Computer peripheral maker Kensington has launched a new accessory for the Apple iPad to that lets you use a security lock with the tablet. It’s called the SecureBack Security Case and the plastic case is designed to offer protection from scrapes and scuffs, like any good case. But it also fits snugly around Apple’s tablet and lets you lock the…

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Apple is on track to launch a third generation iPad tablet early next year. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which gathered information from component suppliers in Taiwan. One of those components will be a new high resolution display. The iPad and iPad 2 have both shipped with 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel displays. The iPad 3 will…

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Sure, the Apple iPad 2 has a starting price of $499. But you know what’s even cheaper? An Android tablet… yes. But also a refurbished first generation iPad. In fact, you can pick up a refurbished 64GB first generation iPad for less than the price of a brand new 16GB model. Here’s a roundup of some of today’s best deals…

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