Pre-release tear-down of the iPad

With the iPad 2 only hours away from international launch in much of the world, the anti-iPad crowd has revved up with talk of the iPad 3, but is a 2011 release date really realistic?

The iPad mini and the fourth-generation iPad each accounted for just 2 percent of overall iPad traffic during their first month of availability, according to mobile analytics firm Localytics.

Not only are the changes so small that we humans don’t notice them, they’re so small as to be mechanically irrelevant. We know this because most cases designed to fit the iPad 2 will comfortably fit the iPad 3.

Over a decade after porting its QuickBooks desktop software to the web, Intuit is finally addressing the needs of its small business owner user base with the launch of a version of the QuickBooks application for iPad. The app has been designed from the ground-up to take advantage of the tablet’s screen size and feature set.

Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: MobilityApple will release its new small tablet, more likely to be called the iPad Air than the iPad Mini, on 23 October. Apple is getting in early to take some of the gloss off the launch of Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface tablet two days later.

Would Apple truly release an iPad 3 in September, 6 months after launching the iPad 2, which if accurate would probably rank as the fastest new product launch ever?

Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy LogicThe much rumoured iPad mini is about to be unveiled, and despite the expectation it will arrive with some new Mac brethren, the iPad mini or potential iPad Air is the big small-screen wonder everyone’s talking about!

Do you own the new iPad? If so, you may need this unofficial guide for your iPad. In this Independent Guide to iPad, you will find any section of your iPad you should know.

The iPad mini is essentially a full-sized iPad that's been hit with a shrink ray, but that smaller screen gives it advantages and disadvantages over its bigger brother.