Apple has approached several UK mobile networks about selling the Apple Tablet (which could well be called the iSlate or the iTablet). Some predict that the negotiations are a repeat of the battle for the original iPhone but with O2, Orange, Tesco Mobile and Vodafone now selling the iPhone 3GS, could we see the iSlate on multiple networks?
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Apple’s Apple watchers are currently focused on dreams of the Apple Tablet but Apple’s patents reveal some other interesting developments. One of its latest shows Apple’s toying with a smart home energy system that will let you monitor your energy consumption and stream iTunes content through your power sockets.
Apple’s smart home energy system patent shows plans to use HomePlug Powerline Networking which uses power outlets to transfer audio, video and data through power outlets. Using that system would allow you to stream iTunes content around your home and see realtime energy use data.
The patent shows a touchscreen controller at the heart of the system. It could be an iPod Touch, an iPhone or, inevitably, the Apple Tablet. Another interesting element of the patent is a reference to “a projections system for providing a display of content on a surface remote from the electronic device”. That suggest sticking a pico-projector into the system.
Lots of companies are currently developing smart home energy systems including Intel which demonstrated its own ideas during its CES 2010 presentation. But with the Apple Tablet seemingly a certainty, using it as a central controller for all your entertainment systems and an energy monitor seems like a brilliant idea.
Apple watchers are currently focused on dreams of the Apple Tablet but Apple’s patents reveal some other interesting developments. One of its latest shows Apple’s toying with a smart home energy system that will let you monitor your energy consumption and stream iTunes content through your power sockets.
New York Times bosses are set to introduce charging for the New York Times website within weeks. It’s thought the timing could coincide with Apple’s predicted Apple Tablet even on January 27. Could this be another sign that big newspapers and magazines are gearing up to hit Apple’s as-yet hypothetical device?
New York magazine reports that New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr is gearing up to announce charging for its website. It claims that the New York Times will opt for a metered payment system where users will be able to sample a certain number of free articles before being asked to pay.
If the New York Times’ does opt for that model, it would seem consistent with iTunes’ current payment system. The New York Times was the source of one of the earliest Apple Tablet rumours in this latest round of fevered speculation when editor Bill Keller seemingly mentioned the device in talk to staff.
It’s been heavily rumoured that the Apple Tablet will feature an ebook reader with a heavy focus on magazines. Apple has apparently been visiting publishers to discuss partnerships and magazine publishers like Conde Nast have shown concepts for bringing their magazines to tablets.
If newspapers and magazines offer subscriptions on an Apple Tablet, will you be buying them?
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New York Times bosses are set to introduce charging for the New York Times website within weeks. It’s thought the timing could coincide with Apple’s predicted Apple Tablet even on January 27. Could this be another sign that big newspapers and magazines are gearing up to hit Apple’s as-yet hypothetical device?
iPhone OS updates have been thin on the ground over the past few months and the Apple Tablet’s to blame, according to new rumours. Could there be too many clues in the code?
Apple Tablet rumour stories are as common as uninformative news reports about the snow. Today’s big rumour is that contrary to popular belief, the Apple Tablet will not have a camera.
Apple’s finally removed the site of a multi-touch keyboard and touchpad maker it acquired, nearly five years after the event. Could the move be yet another step in the countdown to the Apple Tablet?
Orange’s number-two executive in France, Stéphane Richard, got in himself into a right pickle in an interview yesterday, with a rash of news reports suggesting he’d confirmed the existence of the Apple Tablet. Only, it seems he actually didn’t…