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In a mammoth two-hour keynote at its developers conference, Apple just revealed an armload of hardware, software, and services that will have execs at the companies and industries below gripping their Aerons. Google One of the three centerpieces of Apple's keynote was iOS 6, which will launch with over 200 new features and will be backward compatible with Apple's iPhone 3GS--its entry level phone that dates from 2010, but is still on sale

News updates all day from Fast Company. Apple has been under fire from Australian authorities over claims it misled consumers there with information that the new iPad is a "4G" device.

Forget what the competition is planning: Apple does not envision the iPad and MacBook Air converging at any point in the near future. Today, the company released its second-quarter financial results ($39.2 billion in revenue, $11.6 billion in net revenue), and despite selling 11.8 million iPads, Cook took time during an earnings call to discuss the potential threat of the PC and tablet spaces converging. Many expect Microsoft's latest offering, Windows 8, to unite these two sides of the spectrum, making the tablet not a post-PC device, but just a PC in a different form

Dell's chief commercial officer Steve Felice thinks that his company can leverage its way into the tablet market because it's wide open. Speaking to Reuters , Felice said that Dell tablets powered by Windows 8 would arrive later in 2012, and they'd offer something no one else has: Dell's "coveted brand." The optimism didn't end there.

Apple officially unveiled its new iPad, coming to stores March 16. Tablet screens don't get any better than this

Apple just pulled the covers off the new iPad--its latest tablet in the post-PC era, and just as the rumors said it would be, it's all about its amazing new screen. Apple's new iPad is being revealed today in San Francisco: It's physically a lot like the iPad 2 , there's still a home button (quashing some wild rumors about it going) and yes--it has a fabulous 2,048 by 1,536 pixel screen

After months of speculation, the iPad 3 will finally debut March 7.

As the co-founder of a Brooklyn gourmet food and wine shop, Jason Richelson knows first-hand the shortcomings of cash register software. So in August 2008 he invented a new one, ShopKeep Register, that runs on the iPad. He now has nearly 1,000 customers and last month raised $2.2 million in financing

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is working with its Eastern suppliers to design and test a smaller version of the iPad hardware.

A pint-sized version of the iPad is coming, says one analyst.

iPad 3 Arrival Date According to the usual wonderfully unreliable (and always anonymous) " sources ," Apple may be poised to reveal the iPad 3 during an early March event, with in-store availability just a handful of days later. If you look at the booking information for the Yerba Buena center in San Francisco, an Apple staple for this sort of event, it looks like Wednesday March 7th is being held open for an undisclosed booking (or at least this day is oddly empty among a cluster of other bookings).

Most would say you'd have to be crazy. But this Chinese gadgetmaker proves being crazy can make you $100 million a year

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint. PowerPoint has been around for a quarter century.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint.

In the world of boring corporate earnings calls, Apple's investor Q&A sessions are about as exciting as it gets--the equivalent hardcore pornography for most tech geeks. Offering a rare peek inside the famously secretive company, Apple's earnings are watched by every industry analyst and news outlet--and even live blogged in some instances, like a worldwide sporting event. With such attention paid to the spectacle, Apple has used the forum to go after competitors--Steve Jobs once passionately used his bully pulpit to aggressively knock Android--and it appears current CEO Tim Cook plans to use his megaphone in the same fashion.