Twitter Creator’s Credit Card Scanner Comes to iPad

The iPad already has an app for credit card transactions thanks to Twitter creator Jack Dorsey’s Square project. Originally planned for the iPhone, the app works with a peripheral credit card scanner that attaches to the headphone jack. Once the scanner is in place, you can use your iPad as a mobile cash register. Customers will be impressed by the multi-touch interface, and they will be able to sign for their purchases on the screen. The app then verifies the credit card transactions through Square’s servers for a flat fee plus a small percentage of the sale. ...

April 4, 2010 · 1 min · 154 words · Omid Farhang

WordPress Official App For iPad

iPad apps seems to be getting more faster approved than apple iphone apps, we have seen many iPad apps being released. WordPress official app has been released for iPad today. As there lot more space on iPad for bloggers to write a web blog post through this wordpress app, this app seems to be useful. However it does not have any new features so it is just the iphone app being ported for iPad on apple ipad store, Below are some screenshots with which you can get the idea on how does this app will look like on iPad. ...

April 3, 2010 · 1 min · 113 words · Omid Farhang

The First iPad and iPad 3G Teardowns [PICS]

Want to know what makes Apple’s iPad tick? Well wait no longer: thanks to the FCC and some analysis from the people over at iFixit, we now know what the internal guts of the iPad look like. The Federal Communications Commission has publicly posted a series of images and documents sent to it by Apple — they are documents ranging from calibration tests to photos of the internal components. Apple requested that these pictures not be posted for 180 days, but clearly that request was denied. ...

April 3, 2010 · 2 min · 298 words · Omid Farhang