Shazam has today launched a universal app offering iPad support for the very first time. The release boasts a number of nifty new features, including auto tagging, a dynamic home screen, the ability to flip through recent matches, and more. Shazam’s new auto tagging feature is great. Turn it on and your iPad will automatically [...]Show More Summary
Shazam, an app best known for identifying songs playing around you, is making a big move into identifying all kinds of media playing around you.
That promises to move Shazam from our pockets, where its smartphone apps mostly identify songs, to our living rooms—and hence to the tablets we typically keep near our TVs. Show More Summary
Microsoft has released a new ad featuring the Windows 8 ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet and an iPad. The commercial slams the iPad pretty hard by picking and choosing examples of things the iPad can't do that Windows 8 tablet can, like live updating of tile apps, its inability to use multiple apps at once, and lack of Microsoft PowerPoint support. Show More Summary
The Apple bashing is heating up again. Joining Samsung in the battle against Apple, Microsoft is out with a new commercial that takes on Siri's less than perfect multitasking skills. In the ad, a Windows 8 tablet sits next to an iPad and while the Windows 8 tablet gets busy, Sire simply can't keep up, "I'm sorry, I can only do one thing at a time. Show More Summary
We all know Microsoft likes to directly challenge its competitors, especially Google. Now Microsoft is taking a swing at Apple in a new 30-second ad that uses Siri's voice to make fun of the iPad.
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Hewlett-Packard is introducing a new HP Android tablet hybrid, the SlateBook x2, that’s aiming to rival the popular iPad2.
HP is pricing its entry into the hybrid tablet market at $20 less than the cost of iPad2. But the SlateBook x2 also comes standard with a keyboard. Show More Summary
After coming out swinging a few days back with a Surface ad that focused on Office, Microsoft has a new ad that confronts the iPad head-on. And here’s the crazy part: it’s surprisingly amusing. The commercial is a takeoff of Apple’s iPad Mini piano commercial. Show More Summary
The Microsoft-Apple rivalry is heating up again
In a new 30-second ad for Windows 8, Microsoft manages to skewer the iPad, Siri and Apple's promotional strategy
The ad shows the iPad and a Windows 8 tablet side-by-side with Siri repeatedly apologizing for not being able to do what Microsoft's tablet can. Show More Summary
Multi-platform messaging service Imo.im has raised $13 million in second-round funding and updated its iOS and Android apps with a new feature called “Broadcasts.” Palo Alto, Calif.-based Imo.im offers web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps for communicating with friends and …
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Want to browse over 1 million books, newspapers, magazines and blogs for Kindle on your iPad? It’s easy with the new Amazon Kindle Store Web App…
A new iPad version of Shazam available today introduces a whole raft of new functions, ranging from passive tagging without user input to the ability to recognise a song and then play it in Spotify of Rdio. With passive tagging, the app continually listens to any music in the background and automatically tags it, ideal […]
Lots of nifty new iPhone apps are instantly greeted by enthusiastic throngs of users, but when an e-mail app called Mailbox debuted in February, being excited over its arrival became a particular obsession in iPhone nation. Its creators...Show More Summary
Clear, the popular list-making client for iPhone from Realmac Software, now allows you to email your lists thanks to a new update that’s available to download from the App Store today. The release also brings some new themes, and teases upcoming support for the iPad. “One of the biggest feature requests we’ve had has been [...]Show More Summary
Looking to make the most of your love for Mailbox, the hip new email app? Now that the startup has joined up with Dropbox, it's launching an iPad app this week.
Being behind in a market sucks, and it's understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it's willing to do with Google in search and email, and now with Apple in tablet computers. A brand new Surface ad pits the iPad against Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet, in an attempt to show how much more versatile the Surface is vs. the iOS device.
What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March?
Mostly working on new versions of the product—like an iPad version of the app, which...Show More Summary
Shazam on the iPad just got a whole lot better.
The company launched a completely updated version of its tablet app Thursday, with a new discovery home screen, and an auto-tagging feature that can determine what music, television shows,...Show More Summary
Shazam wants you to turn your iPad into an automated logging device for any type of media playing within reach.
Shazam, the music and media discovery and tagging service, has rolled out a major new update to its iOS app, introducing a single universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod... Keep reading ?