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United Airlines Gives Out 11,000 iPads to Pilots

So many industries are adopting the iPad tablet as a solution to replace massive printed material whether it be text books or flight bags for commercial pilots. United Airlines announced today that they have made a complete transition to replace flight bags of navigation charts and manuals by offering their pilots 11,000 iPad 2 devices. Delta and American airlines have also gotten on board using the iPad 2 as flight bags.

Putting flight bags on the iPad tablet is a big cost saver because the airlines can save around 40 pounds of paper weight per pilot. Smart decision by the airlines since the iPad is so much easier for pilots to navigate and easier to keep up to date along with the ease of the iPad touch interface.  Continue reading

Faulty Skype iPad 2 App Release (update:it’s available)

Last night the long awaited Skype iPad 2 App was released to the US app store but was quickly yanked by Skype within a few hours. If you remember a few months back Skype had another faux pas when they posted a YouTube video demoing their upcoming iPad 2 app which they also pulled quickly. Is this a new kind of marketing ploy where you blunder to get press? Maybe the Skype employee responsible for pushing the button on their new iPad 2 app has a neurological tic that causes PSR (Premature Skype Release). Could it be the curse of being in the process of being acquired by Microsoft? Skype’s response to their goof came by way of Twitter at about midnight EST which you can see in the screen capture above.  Continue reading

Kids Happily Return to School for New iPad 2

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My children are sad that summer has ended and now it’s back to school. However, one school has a remedy for the end of summer blues. Hand out an iPad 2 tablet to each student in your school instead of textbooks. Lake Minneola High School in Central Florida are doing just that. This is the first public school in Central Florida to purchase the iPad 2 for all their students at a cost of  about $700,000. However, school officials believe that the iPad 2 investment will actually save them money over the cost of textbooks.  Continue reading

Facebook iPad App Leaked


 

The new iPad app for Facebook has been found hidden inside of the Facebook iPhone app. Apparently, @AeroEchelon on Twitter revealed a hack to make the hidden Facebook iPad app appear using a jailbroken iPad 2.  The guys at TechCrunch took that tip and ran with it and played around with the Facebook app for iPad. The images above are from the TechCrunch site which did not offer a slide show only a bank of images. TechCrunch confirms that they have checked with a source close to the Facebook iPad app team and this is in fact the actual iPad app design that is going to be released very soon. I wonder if this was an actual planned leak by Facebook to create buzz and measure the response to their new design? Either way we are thrilled with the possibility of this Facebook iPad app being released soon.