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  What's still to come from Apple this year

  Long-time Apple watchers know that the end of the year usually brings a bountiful harvest of new and updated products from the company. Indeed, just two short weeks in September have ushered in new iPhones, iOS 7, a new version of iTunes, a modest bu...

• Editing PowerPoint documents on an iPad

  You love your iPad, and chances are good that you need to use Microsoft Office for work. You have lots of options for editing documents created in Microsoft Word and Excel on your iPad, but what about the third major component of Microsoft Office, Po...

• Weighing the iPad mini versus the Nexus 7 is no easy task

  What surprised me upon making the decision to buy a new tablet was the first question that popped into my head: Should that tablet be a Nexus 7?

• The iPad as a comic-book reader

  Tablets, led by the iPad, have the potential to shake up the comic-book industry even more than ebook readers have begun to change the world of prose books.

• The iPad mini: 2013's next big business tool?

  Not long after the iPad mini launched last fall, Cameron Yuill, the founder of AdGent Digital, started using the device to make business presentations.

• Ten apps for your new iPad

  If you were lucky enough to receive a new iPad for the holidays this year, we hope you have fun exploring what the tablet has to offer. By now you've probably acquainted yourself with the built-in apps on your iPad, so you may want to reach outside t...

• Opinion: Why I'm writing on the iPad

  Words that spring from an iPad are not necessarily the same words that would come from other devices.

• Review: Fourth-generation iPad is faster, stronger, better

  The release of the fourth-generation iPad so soon after the third-generation iPad may have come as a surprise to even diehard Apple watchers, but the device itself won't. By now, we all know what an iPad looks like, and the fourth-generation iPad loo...

• iPad mini gives you most of an iPad at half the size

  When the iPad debuted, many called it "just a big iPod touch." Most soon realized that such claims were misguided, as the iPad turned out to be much more: more powerful, more capable, more useful, more everything. Instead of being arithmetically bigg...

• Which iPad should I buy?

  Should you get an iPad? If so, which model? And after you decide on a model, which size? And should you buy one with cellular connectivity?

• Hands on with the iPad mini

  The iPad mini doesn’t arrive in stores until November 2, but we got to spend some time with one after Apple’s media event at the California Theater in San Jose. Our conclusion: Yes, it’s a small iPad - but there’s more (and less) to it than that. Her...

• Big thoughts on a little iPad

  Though some of us didn’t believe it would happen, all signs point to Apple unveiling a smaller iPad (among other things) at its October 23 event.