Hardware: Microsoft has a $50 keyboard for your iPad Microsoft Hardware today announced a new Bluetooth mobile keyboard that might just turn the heads of a few iPad owners.… Read More
Amazon could sell six million Kindle Fires this year, even as complaints mount Amazon.com is addressing complaints about its new Kindle Fire device, with plans to roll out a new software update in… Read More
Microsoft’s latest iPhone app: Kinectimals game now on iOS Microsoft this morning took another step to expand the world of Xbox 360 games to Apple iOS devices, releasing a… Read More
Ask Andru: Apple iMessage Follow-Up The first ever Ask Andru column featured a question about Apple’s iMessage, a proprietary method the company uses to allow… Read More
Microsoft makes Xbox Live app for iPhone and iPad In an unexpected move, Microsoft today came out with a free Xbox Live app for iPhone and iPad, coinciding with… Read More
Analyst: iPad holiday sales ‘light’ as Kindle Fire competition heats up Apple’s iPhone and Mac businesses are humming along nicely this holiday season, but financial analyst Shaw Wu sees some storm… Read More
Consumers losing patience with Microsoft on tablets With all the buzz over the iPad and Kindle Fire lately, we don’t need a study to tell us that… Read More
Amazon: Kindle sales jump 4X to unspecified levels of greatness Amazon is infamous for declining to release specific sales figures for its Kindle devices, but that doesn’t keep the company… Read More
Analyst: Amazon will control 15% of the tablet market next year Have you purchased a Kindle Fire yet? Priced at $199 and released just a few weeks before the holiday rush,… Read More
Big Fish pioneers new subscription game service for the iPad For years, here’s how things worked in Apple’s app store. You discovered a mobile app you liked, and then you… Read More
Introducing Ask Andru: Apple’s iMessage, explained I’m a big fan of GeekWire, so when one of my Twitter followers suggested that I start a regular Q&A… Read More
Prediction: Apple to become biggest PC vendor in 2012 … if the iPad is a PC Is the iPad a PC? The research firm Canalys counts it as one, and based on that it’s predicting that… Read More
Apple turns up heat on Amazon over use of ‘appstore’ for Kindle Fire Apple’s attack on Amazon.com and its use of the phrase “appstore” continues. The Cupertino, California maker of the iPad and… Read More
MSN debuts Onpoint, the ‘ultimate women’s app’ Microsoft’s MSN has already targeted the dudes with a “men’s lifestyle” app, debuting “Onit” for Windows Phone, iPad and iPhone earlier this… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire vs. Apple iPad, and Microsoft’s tablet strategy This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we explore the rising competition between Barnes & Noble and Amazon… Read More
Voting by iPad: Oregon picks Apple device for election test Oregon elections officials are testing iPads to help people with disabilities vote in today’s special election in the state, after… Read More
Palisade Restaurant uncorks new wine list on the iPad Patrons at Palisade Restaurant over the years have grown accustomed to browsing an extensive wine list, flipping through dozens of… Read More
Former Microsofties build startup on stickers and goo Alex Malek and Will Bradley both started at Microsoft straight out of school, working for the last decade as engineers… Read More
TouchFire: iPad ‘screen-top’ keyboard aims to boost typing The iPad is great for many things — watching movies, reading magazines or playing games. But when it comes to… Read More
Microsoft results show how iPad is cutting into Windows PCs Microsoft says in its quarterly regulatory filing today that sales of PCs to businesses were actually up 5 percent last… Read More
Apple’s Cook confident vs. Kindle Fire, sees tablet market eventually bigger than PCs Apple CEO Tim Cook was just asked on the company’s earnings call to offer his thoughts on Amazon’s upcoming Kindle… Read More
Whose 30% is it? Apple wins financial standoff vs. Facebook The release of Facebook’s long-awaited iPad app today is being welcomed by many iPad-toting Facebook fans, but behind-the-scenes it also… Read More
Facebook releases iPad app, can we all move on now? After months of rumors and unfulfilled anticipation, a native Facebook app for iPad was starting to seem less likely than… Read More
New from Apple: Sharing location, mailing cards, cutting off the PC Apple executives are on stage in Cupertino, Calif., right now delivering a long buildup to the expected unveiling of a… Read More
How Amazon’s new tablet signals the start of next generation Guest Analysis: With the announcement of the Kindle Fire, Amazon has now made the long term tablet business an interesting… Read More
How a father-and-son Lego project sparked an iPad game Seattle entrepreneur Hillel Cooperman loves Legos. So, each year, the founder of Jackson Fish Market gets excited for BrickCon, a… Read More
Tablets, mobile payments and more: A quick view of the future from Mobilize 2011 Guest Post: Summing up a conference with an agenda as broad as GigaOM’s Mobilize 2011 in San Francisco is no… Read More
Will Microsoft get patent royalties from Amazon’s Kindle Fire? Jeff Bezos just announced a new Kindle Fire tablet based on Google’s Android operating system. Steve Ballmer says Microsoft deserves… Read More
Report: ‘Kindle Fire’ is name of Amazon.com’s new tablet Amazon.com will roll out its first tablet computer under the brand name “Kindle Fire,” according to a report today by… Read More
Evri’s new iPad app looks to reinvent the news experience Applications like Flipboard and Pulse look to transform the way people consume news and information on the iPad. Now, Seattle… Read More
