Another week, another set of stories of interest to iPhone and iPad users. Without further ado, here is this week’s In the News:
- Texas Assistant Attorney General Frank King writes about using an iPad at trial for the Texas Bar Journal.
- Attorney Sam Glover of Lawyerist wrote an article for Law Practice Magazine recommending iPad apps for productivity.
- New York attorney Michael Zussman wrote an article for The Federal Lawyer about advice for IP lawyers based on Steve Jobs. A copy of the article is hosted on his website.
- North Carolina attorney Andrew Nettleman explains how he uses his iPad in a post for Tablet Legal.
- Attorney Matthew Hickey writes about using GoodReader to organize your case files in this article on The Sociable Lawyer Blog.
- Virginia attorney Rob Dean writes about using PDF Expert to sign pleadings.
- Giles Turnbull of Cult of Mac also writes about PDF Expert.
- Andy Ihnatko writes for Macworld UK that his laptop computer has become essentially a desktop computer and his iPad has become his portable computer. I couldn’t agree more.
- Dallas attorney Tom Mighell writes about the limitations of the “Open in…” menu on the iPhone and iPad. I couldn’t agree more that Apple needs to fix this soon.
- Mighell also explained what to do when an app crashes.
- Bill Latham of The Hytech Lawyer recommends 31 apps for lawyers.
- Horace Dediu of Asymco writes that Apple Stores have 17 times the performance of the average retailer. In terms of sales per square foot, Apple Stores are twice as efficient as the #2 company, Tiffany & Co.
- Mark Sullivan of PC World tested for four major phone carriers in various cities across the U.S. and found that T-Mobile has the fastest 3G downloads and AT&T has the fastest 4G downloads. I do have some questions about this study, however, T-Mobile did well because it uses HSPA+ in many cities for its 3G. In New Orleans, however, this study ranked AT&T as having the slowest 4G, but New Orleans doesn’t have LTE yet. What AT&T calls “4G” in New Orleans is (for now) the same HSPA+ that T-Mobile has in many cities. I only know about this issue for the New Orleans data because I live here; there may be similar problems with how the study ranked other cities. Nevertheless, this is still an interesting report.
- Looking for a text editor for your iPad? There are over 50 of them, and Brett Terpstra compares them all. (via Daring Fireball.)
- Looking to buy an iPhone right now? Steve Kovach of Business Insider offers some advice.
- Michael Rose of TUAW writes about the new Connect service from QuickOffice and the Box OneCloud services, alternatives to using DropBox to sync files to you iOS devices.
- Roy Furchgott of the New York Times reviews the Element Case, a half-pound iPhone dock.
- Chris Mascer of MacNewsWorld reviews Printer Pro, an app that helps you print from an iPad.
- And finally, do you love to use your iPhone but hate that people keep trying to shoot it? Well then you’ll want to spend $650 on the new bulletproof iPhone case from Japanese firm Marudai. (via the Daily Mail.)
