In March, the company launched Square Register, an iPad-based point of sale service for accepting payments and tracking inventory.
There are many iPad-based textbook solutions and Google has taken significant steps to get education resources on Android too.
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Besides a freemium-based iPad application, the service includes a patient website for patients to access their health records that doctors make available to them.
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Nothing is more important to the digital future of publishers than the ability to sell subscriptions to iPad- and iPhone-based editions of their periodicals.
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Designed by the same team as the full-fat version, aspiring DJs can enjoy two waveform-based decks, with three-band EQ, eight effects (ported over from Trakor Pro) all redesigned from the ground up for the iPad's touch-based input.
But the revised policy still won't allow iPhone and iPad users to access Flash-based content on the Web.
In a few days, Cupertino, California-based Apple's hotly-anticipated iPad will hit the market.
The Cupertino, Calif-based iPhone and iPad maker now owns 7.6% of the Western European market, according to Gartner.
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Yours truly has had some pretty positive experiences with Babbel's existing product line, with the latest being a subscription-based alternative for iPad that makes it a lot more affordable to learn the basics of 11 different tongues.
It has custom-built a warehouse-shipping app for the iPad using the Sybase Unwired Platform that connects to its SAP-based data.
In practical terms, that means iPad-controlled seating charts, web-based guest lists and look-books delivered almost instantaneously after each show.
In my tests, I was able to create documents on an iPad in each of the three cloud-based Office programs.
This mobile iPad cart is from Portland, Oregon-based Anthro.
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In 2010, Hypershop introduced a battery powered HyperDrive external HDD product offering up to 750 GB of external storage through the proprietary USB-based interface on the iPad.
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Before you let visions of IGZO-based LCDs on every iPad and iPhone dance through your head, though, remember that neither Hon Hai nor Sharp has confirmed anything -- and that the plant wouldn't be up and running until 2013 at the earliest, even if everything's in sync.
The practice is encouraging developers to tailor map-based iPhone applications to the iPad and could boost sales of the already popular gadget.
But you would also likely see sets powerful enough to support some impressive app- and cloud-based gaming, as with the iPad.
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Apple even uses ARM-based processors in the iPhone and iPad.
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Bolstered by users like Andersen and Ostrowski, developers are adapting their location-based applications to run on the iPad. (Most of these apps work best on the 3G version of the iPad, which has built-in GPS, but will also operate on the cheaper, Wi-Fi-only iPad.) The trend caught some developers by surprise.
"Buy Once, Read Everywhere": Kindle books can be read on Kindles, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, PCs, Macs and Android-based devices.
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Ryan Arter, the president of Kansas-based Mission:Repair, has seen one iPad so far.
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Right away I imagined a console-based true web browser where you use your iPad keyboard to type the way you would on a PC, and Kinect gestures stand-in for a mouse.
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Kindle books are "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" with free Kindle reading apps available for the most popular devices, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac and Android-based devices.
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The Cupertino-based company is actively looking for a partner to build the ARM-based chips used in iDevices (iPod touch, iPad and iPhone), and currently made in Samsung fabs.
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Kindle Textbooks are "Rent Once, Read Everywhere" as they can be read across the most popular devices with free Kindle Reading Apps for PC, Mac, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android-based devices.
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device).
It was created by Guildford-based Fireproof Studios and had previously won Apple's 2012 iPad game of the year.
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For over two years, Amazon has been building and introducing a wide selection of free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle apps for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices that let customers read and sync their reading library, bookmarks, notes, and highlights with the device or platform of their choice.
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