it claims to carry 90% of "core textbooks". So instead of sinking hundreds of dollars on textbooks that you have to lug around, you just zap them…

… Great news if you like higher gas prices. Consumer prices rose, too. Did we mention higher gas prices? Severe school cutbacks will take not…

Or is that a vague and somewhat biased question? On today's show, Brian X. Chen from Wired talked about how the impending boom in tablet computers…

That's not a typo. The LPad is a knockoff of the iPad made by the Chinese company TESO. Best of all, it can run on the "Andriod" operating system…

That's why there's no video or audio capability for the new super cheap Kindle, according to Jeff Bezos who runs/is Amazon.com. Of course, there IS…

Meanwhile in St Paul, John Moe avoids "the iPad is hotter than ever!" joke. The iPad has received complaints about the iPad getting too hot ever…

Sure, you have to pay tuition. But freshmen at Illinois Institute of Technology will each get a free iPad this fall. Which makes me think it must…

When the iPad launched, a lot of people wondered if Mac sales would suffer. It's not just a business question; it's a question of whether people …

While putting together today's episode on whether the iPad can save magazines, I took in this nifty video of how Viv Magazine is turning their…

*The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the…