The film zeros in on the generation of children whose formative years are unfolding in front of screens.
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Crushing pianos, video games and emojis doesn’t seem to have delivered the slick messaging the brand was aiming for.
Understanding others’ emotions is a crucial social skill. Counter to concerns about screen time stunting kids’ development, one study suggests they’re getting better at recognizing emotion on screen.
Mobile phones and tablets are basically mini computers – and to a computer, everything is a number.
Some will point to Apple’s lost talisman as the reason for the company’s current woes. They needn’t bother.
The first ten years of the iPhone has been a bloody decade of labour abuse, especially in Chinese factories such as those run by Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer.
Technology enables many ways of interacting. We need to be more specific and scientific.
If you use a tablet device to keep a child quiet at the dining table or other event then you could be limiting their social skills. That could have an impact on the way they behave later in life.
Packing more into less may appeal to those holding out against upgrading their older devices – something that could boost sales.
Cyber criminals have found a way to harvest data from iPhones and iPads using the weak point in Apple’s otherwise top security system - app developers.
The new iPad Pro reminds us that firms like Apple are favouring incremental change rather than tackling technology’s big challenges.
Apple tries to repeat the same supersize trick with the iPad that made the iPhone 6 wildly popular. But bigger isn’t necessarily better.
Compared to the Apple keynote that launched the iPhone 6/6+ and Apple Watch, the follow up iPad event was always going to be a low-key affair. That the new iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 bring only long-expected…
Is it time to reappraise the idea that Apple is incapable of innovation in the post Jobs era? The company has failed to introduce a game changing consumer device since the iPad but its latest range contains…
A new design of touchscreen technology that uses metal nanowires could enable flexible touchscreens that are cheaper to make…
The stockmarket was hoping for great things from Apple’s earnings announcement for the December quarter. Most of all, they were hoping for something that would turn around a four month slide in Apple’s…
The academics union has condemned a plan by the University of Western Sydney to give away 11,000 iPads as part of a $35 million bid to keep its content and teaching relevant to students. All new students…
The Daily was launched in February 2011 to great fanfare. It was the first iPad only newspaper (although it did have a web mirror but that was just for sharing). It had a simple price, $1 per week, and…
The onward march of digital tablets looks incontestable. Tablets are now threatening sales of personal computers in K-12 education in the USA. And the forthcoming launch of a new kiddie-tablet called Tabeo…
Bookshelves towering floor to ceiling filled with weighty tomes, or one book-sized device holding hundreds of “books” in electronic form: which one of these options for the voracious reader creates the…
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