Feels like only yesterday we were all rooting for Motorola’s Xoom to deal some damage to (or at least share some of the market with) the iPad. The Xoom looked – and, to be honest, still looks – like a decent piece of hardware. I, for one, would still be proud to sport it about the town in a man-purse, whipping it out at a fancy coffee bar while I slurp down a beverage with a sentence-long name. Of course, once it was revealed that the Xoom would in fact cost more than the most comparable iPad model, people began singing a different tune. 800 bucks is not worth a tablet of the Xoom’s capabilities. Or, in this case,…

Apple rolled out a subscription service today that will allow publishers to put their content on apps and charge for them through the App Store. The subscription billing service is based upon what they and News Corp have done with The Daily. By applying the App Purchases billing system to a content subscription model, publishers will be able to set prices and lengths of subscriptions and offer them to consumers at various levels of commitment. By putting it all in a centralized location specific to content publishers, users will be able to manage and monitor all of their subscriptions at once….

I love it when old people talk about technology. Further confirming the iPad 2′s two cameras is none other than Elton John, who at 1:15 in this interview with BBC’s Colin Paterson claims he’ll be picking up a ‘Skype iPad’ in April to communicate with his son. John openly admits he’s a Luddite, who can even memorize phone numbers – which as Paterson points out, is a ‘rare skill these days’. No kidding. I don’t even know my own number….

There was a day when schools supplies consisted of backpacks, calculators, and plenty of lined paper. But at Webb School, a private school in Knoxville, Tenn., 4th-12th graders are also expected to carry an Apple iPad with them to class. Jim Manikas, technology director at the school, says that students will be able to access information for their classes whenever and wherever they need to. The iPad will virtually eliminate the need to rely on stationary desktop computers and students won’t need to schedule computer lab time just to work on assignments. Over time, Manikas believes the iPad…

If you planned on making the iPad 2 your be-all, end-all imaging tool, it would appear you may be SOL. 9 to 5 Mac is reporting that the rear-facing camera on the back of the unit will be a paltry one-megapixel – which wouldn’t seem so bad until you remember the iPhone 4′s camera is five… and some older flip phones are two or three. But, if it makes you feel any better, the front-facing camera is VGA, so by comparison, 1-megapixel isn’t the worst. Just don’t throw out your digital camera just yet. This revelation is especially odd considering it was previously said that OmniVision technologies had been…

Oh, hi there. Remember that 7-inch iPad? Here’s a photograph of Taiwanese pop idol Jimmy Lin holding one. Yeah, I’m not buying it either. With all the trash talk Steve’s been giving the rumoured ‘Pad, it’s highly unlikely it could even survive at this point, if released. But that won’t stop the ‘evidence’ from leaking in from all sides, including what I can only assume is this photoshopped image. Apparently, there are more details on Lin’s blog, but sadly, I only speak one language. Good luck….

The first iAd on the iPad will be for the upcoming movie “Tron Legacy”. A Tr-iAd. And thus, the era of app-based tablet advertising is officially launched. This full-screen iAd will be the only one we will see on the iPad in 2010 and is loaded with rich graphics, touch navigation and nearly 10-minutes of video native to apps. Unlike other forms of advertising, this iAd will be extremely interactive with a theater locator, loads of images, and a preview of the movie soundtrack (which you can, of course, purchase through an iTunes module on the iAd itself). “Disney and Apple are excited to debut the ‘Tron…

Big Steve would have you believe that Apple isn’t working on several sizes of iPad, and has outright denied rumours that a 7-inch model is on the way. According to Jobs, 7-inch tablets are “DOA”, and we’d have to “sand down [our] fingers to around one-quarter of their present size” just to operate the things. But lo! Reuters is citing Asian manufacturers who claim that Apple is, in fact, working on a smaller iPad, which we could see drop early next year – perhaps even along the iPad 2. It’s too early to call, and take what you hear from Asian manufacturers with a grain of salt. Although Steve is pretty well…

So this, allegedly, is a case for the next iPad. There’s not much to say – it’s a case. Who’s to say it’s even legit? But assuming it is, it looks like we got that camera we were after, so we can awkwardly take pictures with a giant slab. Have you ever snapped a photograph with a book? You’re about to. The speaker slot also seems much larger, and oddly enough, the design seems surprisingly… more curved. Personally, I thought the iPhone 4 offered evidence that Apple was moving to a far more flat, sexy, industrial look, but it would seem Jobs wants to take it back to the 1998 iMac in terms of design. How hipster,…

Virgin’s Project magazine is set to revolutionize the way we think about content consumption on the iPad with the world’s first all-digital magazine for the iPad. Or, in other words, this is something that should have happened awhile ago. Project magazine, which is a project by Virgin and Richard Branson, has been created in order to demonstrate a new age of digital publishing for the iPad (and soon the iPhone). It has been created and designed from the ground up to be displayed on digital platforms. And while this isn’t the first attempt (remember e-zines?), it surely seems to be the most ambitious….