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A Textbook Case of iPad Fun With Studying

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 7 at 5:40 pm PT

Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.

My So-Called Social Super Bowl

Lauren Goode in Social on February 6 at 4:19 pm PT

Last night, I took a rare break from social media and opted for a real-time, real-life Super Bowl instead. And somehow … I saw the same game everyone else did.

RIM Offering Free PlayBook Tablets to Woo Android Developers

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 2 at 5:20 pm PT

Developers will have to hurry, though, as only those who port their app by Feb. 13 are eligible for the offer.

NFL Brings (Some of) the Super Bowl to Tablets

Lauren Goode in Media on February 1 at 8:37 am PT

If you’re one of those football fans who likes to watch — and rewatch — key plays after the game, this app’s for you.

Where’s the Fire? Kindle Sales Pushing Six Million for the Quarter.

John Paczkowski in News on January 30 at 3:23 am PT

Has anyone seen one of Amazon’s new Kindle Fires in the wild? I haven’t. But evidently they’re everywhere.

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HP’s Discontinued TouchPad Sells Out … Again

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 27 at 9:08 am PT

It’s been called the tablet that just won’t die: After refurbished Hewlett-Packard TouchPads became available for a discount on Woot.com, the 16 gigabyte model — which was being sold for $169.99 — is apparently sold out again, The Verge writes. Earlier this week, HP published a road map for open source development on webOS, the mobile operating system behind the TouchPad, six weeks after the company first said it was opening up the OS to the developer community.

Pew: Nearly One-Fifth of U.S. Adults Own Tablets or E-Readers

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 23 at 7:45 am PT

Back-to-school season may not have spurred a ton of tablet and e-reader purchases, but the holidays were a different story, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.