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It's perhaps the most convincing clue yet that Apple may be coming out with an iPhone 5 "Lite": Older iPhone 3GSs and iPad 1s are outselling individual competing units from Android handset makers.

The conventional workday is a thing of the past.

A social networking app just for videos--designed especially for tablets and mobile--gives you the feeling of having the world of web video in the palm of your hand.

Toys "R" Us will soon be selling iPads alongside G.I. Joes, PlayStation games, and Legos

The iPad is now having a measurable effect on the PC sales industry, according to a recent analyst report from Deutsche Bank . The bank raised its stock-price target for Apple , and cut price targets for PC makers as a result. Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, issued a note to his investors today that's hit the tech headlines for one big reason: He suggests that while PC sales are continuing to grow over recent months, they're proceeding at a much slower rate than industry observers had expected, with one device to blame--the iPad

Tablet computers are becoming more popular for Web browsing on the couch, watching Netflix movies in bed, or reading books on the train. But can a tablet replace a laptop for business travel? To find out, I grabbed an Apple iPad and the Lenovo IdeaPad U260, a new ultra-portable notebook with a 12.5-inch screen, and headed from Minneapolis to Los Angeles

With oddly simultaneous timing, a number of Apple's competitors have made bold statements alleging the iPad is poor in certain ways, not suited for particular uses, or even doomed to fail. You could be forgiven for thinking they're running interference because of fear. We marshall the evidence here.

On this day in history: 4 AM, March 28th, 1979 marked the time of the U.S.'s worst nuclear disaster , as clouds of radioactive steam vented into the atmosphere above the failed Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Pennsylvania--the public wasn't warned until 9 AM. More happily, in 1797 a chap name Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.

The long-awaited New York Times digital subscriptions paywall has been revealed and, at first glance, it seems to be exactly how Apple would like it to be. Print purists will be pleased it's more expensive than the paper edition.

Social learning platform Xplana has been analyzing the digital textbook market, and has concluded that in the U.S. the education publishing market has is reaching a tipping point: Within seven years, digital textbooks will dominate over print. Xplana's studies suggest that over the next five years, sales of textbooks to students in the U.S

The iPad 2 is getting all sorts of praise, but something interesting is emerging: Are its light weight, large screen and twin cameras perfectly positioned to make the iPad an Augmented Reality giant? Augmented Reality apps have slowly proliferated on smartphones, bringing a novelty and genuine usefulness to some data streams that are overlaid on reality through the device's rear cameras, but now there are tablet computers with rear cameras, too.

The iPad is a natural device for magazine content--it may be the future of the genre, in many ways . But successes have been few and far between so far, so Apple may be trying to help digital magazines by building in a template to the code. Is this a good thing

The iPad is a natural device for magazine content--it may be the future of the genre, in many ways . But successes have been few and far between so far, so Apple may be trying to help digital magazines by building in a template to the code

The iPad is a natural device for magazine content--it may be the future of the genre, in many ways .

1. Facebook 's leaping aboard the daily deals/coupon bandwagon, and will be testing out its own Groupon-like service in a limited list of U.S.