Free iPad app for college textbooks

Aug 13, 2010
it claims to carry 90% of "core textbooks". So instead of sinking hundreds of dollars on textbooks that you have to lug around, you just zap them...

MID-DAY UPDATE: Retail sales rose in July...

Aug 13, 2010
... Great news if you like higher gas prices. Consumer prices rose, too. Did we mention higher gas prices? Severe school cutbacks will take not...

Screens everywhere - does that help?

Aug 12, 2010
Or is that a vague and somewhat biased question? On today's show, Brian X. Chen from Wired talked about how the impending boom in tablet computers...

The new LPad is here!

Jul 30, 2010
That's not a typo. The LPad is a knockoff of the iPad made by the Chinese company TESO. Best of all, it can run on the "Andriod" operating system...

Bezos says Hemingway doesn't need embedded video

Jul 29, 2010
That's why there's no video or audio capability for the new super cheap Kindle, according to Jeff Bezos who runs/is Amazon.com. Of course, there IS...

Apple being sued over iPad overheating

Jul 28, 2010
Meanwhile in St Paul, John Moe avoids "the iPad is hotter than ever!" joke. The iPad has received complaints about the iPad getting too hot ever...

Want an iPad? Go to college

Jul 26, 2010
Sure, you have to pay tuition. But freshmen at Illinois Institute of Technology will each get a free iPad this fall. Which makes me think it must...

For public good, not for profit.

Mac sales are strong

Jul 21, 2010
When the iPad launched, a lot of people wondered if Mac sales would suffer. It's not just a business question; it's a question of whether people ...

Coming soon: Magazine Motion Sickness

Jul 20, 2010
While putting together today's episode on whether the iPad can save magazines, I took in this nifty video of how Viv Magazine is turning their...

MID-DAY UPDATE: A reason to check the mailbox again

Jul 20, 2010
*The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the...