Mark your Google calendar for Wednesday, March 2, potentially a landmark in the history of Apple Computer. According to Apple’s press corps, the company will host a March 2nd event, where iPad el dos will debut. Under normal circumstances, this announcement cum invitation would generate multi-megawatt buzz about the product and its capacities. In...
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Debuting “The Daily” for iPad, Murdoch promises “digital renaissance”.
Debuting the world’s first purely digital daily news, Rupert Murdoch announced traditional journalism’s resurrection. No less an authority than The New York Times suggested Murdoch was giving the world’s first snapshot of “the digital newsstand of the near future.” With a $30 million investment at stake, and with News Corp’s acquisition of troubled MySpace...
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Consumer Electronics Show stages Vegas take-over.
Once upon a time, “techies” may have haunted a subterranean American sub-culture, living in their mother’s basements and alternating between annihilating one another on “CounterStrike” and innovating apps, gadgets, and platforms. Their combined computing power might have taken-over the world, but they remained interested in dominating all things virtual. This week in Las Vegas,...
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Remember when books and news were printed on paper?
Just in time for the winter holidays, Target, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart are stocking and promoting e-readers. More importantly, for the first tome in history, the United States’ two major booksellers reported that e-book sales matched those of premium hardcovers in November. Although news of their death may be greatly exaggerated, words o paper...
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Apple brings on another Mac attack
Steve Jobs has a sense of humor; who knew? Especially after a week of ranting about his competitors’ short-comings and abuses, Jobs caught reporters off-guard when he commented on the provenance of the new MacBook Air: “We asked ourselves what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked-up?” Of course, the result would...
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Possibility of Apple’s 7-in iPad Stirs Debate
DigiTimes, an IT publication based in Taiwan, reported last week that a new smaller version of the iPad was scheduled to be released in 2011 based upon reports of component manufacturing companies ramping up for the smaller parts. DigiTimes reported that the new iPad would be between 5 and 7 inches and be priced...
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Microsoft vs. Apple: Can Microsoft Compete in the Tablet Market?
Remember when you were a kid and the neighbor down the street got something really cool, and you didn’t have one? You felt as though life was incomplete until you had one, too. That’s the position Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, finds himself in now. Apple’s iPad has sold over 3.3 million units, and...
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BlackBerry Tablet- iPad Competition?
The rumors are circulating that Research In Motion, the company behind BlackBerry, is gearing up to release a tablet in November. Despite the long-standing rumors, RIM could not be reached for comment. The tablet will reportedly have a 9.7 inch screen, which is roughly the same size as the iPad. The device will feature...
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iPad’s Flipboard – Your Social News, Your Way
Remember the days of traditional feed aggregators, and all the time you spent scanning RSS feeds searching for something relevant? Thanks to Mike McCue and his brainchild, Flipboard, those days are gone. If you own an iPad and haven’t downloaded this app yet, I suggest you stop reading this for a moment, go grab...
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iPad’s Security Breach: Apple’s iHumiliation
Oh, Apple…it seems as though the company is on top of the world one day, and the laughing stock of it the next. Mere days after Steve Jobs got on a soap box about Apple’s commitment to the privacy of its consumers, and iPad security breach compromised the personal information of over 100,000 iPad...
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