An iPad at the office: Can it work as a PC?

Sure, the iPad is a great device for Web surfing, book reading, and movie watching. But it’s also getting a lot of interest in corporations as a possible business device for field forces, nurses and doctors in hospitals, and knowledge workers in the office and on the go.

That interest is obvious from the top iPad downloads from the Apple App Store, where Citrix Receiver, an app that makes the iPad a portal to server-based apps such as Microsoft Office and SharePoint, has stayed in the top five almost every day. Also in that top-downloads list are Apple’s iWork productivity trio (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) and two Microsoft Office-compatible productivity apps (Quickoffice Mobile Connect Suite and DataViz Documents to Go Premium).

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Singtel releases prepaid and postpaid data plans for iPad

iPad Data Plans

Monthly Subscription
(a) $34.50 a month, or (b) $30.50 a month for 24 months
Free Data Usage 50 GB
Download Speed 7.2 Mbps
Upload Speed 1.5 Mbps
Excess Charge Cap $94.16
One-time Charge $13.38 for MicroSIM Card
For a FREE USB modem and a MicroSIM with adaptor, sign up at $36.50 a month for 24 months.

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Responding to Stephen Colbert and His IPad Suit

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published a Digit on more ways that people can carry around their iPads, including a men’s suit with a built-in pocket for an iPad–only to be (quite vocally) informed by The Colbert Show’s Stephen Colbert that we neglected to give him proper credit for his contribution to men’s fashion.

Holding up a copy of last Friday’s Wall Street Journal on his show Thursday, Mr. Colbert referred to a front-page story about how iPad users were carrying their devices around, but commented on the blog piece, which was written as a follow up. His claim: that he had first appeared in an iPad-compatible suit.

For the record, this blog would now like to note that Mr. Colbert a

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Buffett-Invested Firm: Another iPad Wannabe?

At the Computex trade show in Taipei this week, it’s clear Apple’s iPad has triggered a flurry of interest in tablets, and everyone wants in on the action.  Maybe even Warren Buffett. 

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BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu

BYD, a Chinese maker of electric cars and batteries, is the latest contender. Steven Jiang, its product marketing manager, said on the conference sidelines that the company plans to sell a tablet early next year that will use an Intel chip and sell for less than $300.

 Mr. Jiang al

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New iPad Options For Comics Fans

Comic book fans with iPads: You have two new reasons to get excited today.

A new application, Comic Viewer, has just been approved in the App Store. And today’s update of the popular e-reading app Stanza enables it to work on the iPad — and, more importantly, to display comics.

Comic Viewer comes at a reasonable price of $5, compared to the $8 you have to spit out for Comic Zeal, another comic-reading app. Sti

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