The iPad is powerful and plentiful, can be used to defend food trucks, and can even be used in the bathroom, all in today's edition of In the news:
- Restrictions on food trucks are being debated before the New Orleans City Council right now. New Orleans attorney Ernie Svenson tweeted a link to a video of a presentation before the City Council by attorney Andrew Legrand. Legrand made effective use of iThoughtsHD on an iPad mini to visually go through each argument against food trucks and show why the argument lacked merit. Watch a few minutes of the video to see what he did; it is impressive, and may inspire you to do a similar, effective presentation with your iPad. Click here to get iThoughtsHD ($9.99):
- Ohio attorney and legal technology consultant Brett Burney discusses using an iPad in a law practice in a podcast with Ed Poll on the Law Biz Blog.
- Craig Timberg of The Washington Post explains one more reason that iPhone users are safer than Android phones: iPhone users are able to upgrade their phones when the operating system is updated, and most do so, whereas many Android phones make it difficult to upgrade, and they do not do so.
- According to Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune, if you count iPads as a type of PC, then Apple is the world's #1 PC maker.
- Is it fair to count an iPad as a PC? According to a post on gdgt.com, an iPad mini is actually faster than a Cray 2, which was the fastest supercomputer in the world in the 1980s.
- If you want an iPhone 5 case that includes a battery, the Juice Pack Helium from Mophie is the first Apple-certified device with a Lightning connector. Dan Frakes of Macworld offers this initial take while working on a full review.
- Apple sold the 25 billionth song on iTunes, and Eric Slivka of MacRumors reports that the man in Germany who downloaded that song got an iTunes Gift Card worth €10,000.
- And finally, for those who love their iPad and like to take it with them everywhere — really everywhere — you can now buy on Amazon for the low price of $44.99 the CTA Digital Pedistal Stand for iPad with Roll Holder:
