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First Five iPad Games from Joystiq

sara — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:53:21 +0000

Were you wondering what are the best Apps and games for iPad? Check out this list at Joystiq of your first Five fav iPad games!

How to keep kids safe on the iPad

sara — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:26:31 +0000

Worried about your kids’ safety while they play with the brand new family iPad? You might choose Safe Eyes Mobile (which you can also use for your iPhone and iPod Touch).
The software acts as a filtered browser blocking all the inappropriate content. You can buy it on iTunes for $ 19.99.

via familycomputing

MASH for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

sara — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:04:51 +0000

Apparently MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) is an evergreen! If you didn’t get tired to play it as a kid, you can now play it on your iPhone, iPod Touch or the iPad…if you’re among the happy few, of course
MASH is available fo r$1 and it is featured as an App Store Essential.
You can customize your story and share your results with your friends via Facebook or email. Fun!

Kids games available for the new iPad

sara — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:13:46 +0000

Kids are now enjoying many of the apps and games currently becoming available for the new Apple iPad. Also, many kid games currently available as iPhone apps can be migrated to the Apple device.   With titles ranging from arcade-type games to educational games, the selection of kid games for the iPad is broad. Adaptations of popular games, such as Need for Speed and N.O.V.A, have already been released.   The very nature of the iPad’s touchscreen and motion user interface allows game interaction to be smooth and varied. Users already used iPhone app games will find the larger 9.7 inch screen even more suitable for gaming purposes.   

Educational games are also available: Red Fish, developed by FreshPlanet, uses the iPad’s size and intuitive interface technology. This kind of games utilize the natural inquisitiveness that children have for touchscreens to bring about games that incorporate a teaching of language, mathematics, science and music, set to a scalable and entertainment format that manages to capture kids’attention.

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Penguin thinking about interactive contents for Apple iPad

sara — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:33:33 +0000

It is now clear that iPad, the new tablet from Apple, has caused quite a stir in the publishing world. London-based publishing house Penguin Books is expecting e-books -related products to remarkably increase in sales, and it is already planning to createnew products embedding lots of digital contents. In the words of Jim Makinson, Penguin’s chief executive, i-Pad is a model that’s “really appealing to consumers”

Disney to team up with Apple for iPad contents?

sara — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:39:04 +0000

While announcing Q1 FY10 financial results, the Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger talked about the new Apple iPad. He said Disney is exploring the possibility to create new forms of contents because the iPad has indeed a great potential; such products will also be different from the contents you usually see on an internet connected computer or on TV sets. We’ll see what happens…

Rumors about a Google tablet

sara — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:58:10 +0000

Were you thinking about buying an iPad for you and your family? If you’re following the ongoing debate on the brand new device from Apple, then you’ve probably heard the rumors about Google working together with HTC on a new Chrome OS Google Tablet. We know that Apple has put a great effort on the content as much as on the device itself, so it is unlikely that the Gooogle tablet will be a direct competitor. What do you think?

via gizmodo

Apple Tablet (iSlate or iPad?) designed for families

sara — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:27:05 +0000

The 27th of January will be a date to remember for all of you tech-lovers. Apple will be presenting its new tablet, a portable computer that will allow users to interface with the system directly on the screen. There have been many rumors on the Net on the new device and its possible name. Some say it will be called iSlate, some others iPad (but we’ve also heard of iTablet and iGuide).

According to a Wall Street Journal report the new tablet will be shared by the whole family: children will play games and read email, while grown ups will read their newspapers and books. Apple is also allegedly negotiating with TV networks for offering a monthly subscription including most popular programmes and is currently teaming up with Electronic Arts to make the tablet a videogame console.