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iPad e-mail hijack delivers another hard hit to AT&T.

The FBI announced on Thursday that it has launched an investigation into “the potential cyber threat” from Goatse Security, the group that claims responsibility for hacking into more than 100,000 AT&T wireless accounts.  Although the hack caused no damage, it threatens the security of iPad users who signed-up for AT&T 3G wireless when they...
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Steve Jobs talks about the state of his art.

“Jobs proclaims end of PC era,” the headlines read after Steve Jobs spoke to participants in the D8, “All Things Digital” conference this week. The headline probably shed more light on Jobs’s enthusiasm for the iPad than it qualified as quote-worthy prophecy.  Still, when Jobs, clad in signature jeans and turtleneck and outfitted with...
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Feds investigate Apple for anti-trust violations.

Add this to the “techies” category in your urban dictionary: “Appatalism,” a contraction of Apple and capitalism, usually used as part of the allegation that Apple Computers is using its application-development rules to squash competition—“approximately like big wing-tip shoes crunch little ladybugs,” one Apple detractor asserts.  David Balto, a former policy director with the...
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iPad sales top one million.

Apple officials announced Monday and retail monitoring firms confirmed that iPad sales have topped the million mark. iPad sales remain slightly ahead of the company’s forecasts despite a sluggish economy and some users’ confusion about just where in the wireless world the iPad fits. According to Seth Monsen, Apple expert at Patterson-Forbes Partners, two...
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Apple Computer maintains its independence

Jobs turns thumbs-down on Adobe Flash; Apple buys chipmaker. Leaving no doubt about where he stands, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs posted a long, detailed letter on the company’s website Thursday, explaining why Apple will not allow Adobe Flash and other Adobe software on its mobile devices, most notably iPad and iPhone.  Apple...
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iPad Launches Genuine Publishing Revolution

In all the hype and hyperbole surrounding Apple’s launch iPad, the moment’s true historic significance may get lost, cautions Seth Monsen, media analyst and historian at Patterson-Forbes Partners.  Monsen carefully has tracked and detailed Apple’s evolution since first introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, treating his subject with strict scientific disinterest.   “Coldly considered in...
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Everything about iPad Exceeds the Market’s Expectations

Showing off his new multi-tasking iPhone, Steve Jobs was feeling justifiably expansive and effusive on Thursday morning.  The new iPhone, handily overcoming users’ pet peeve, was sustaining eleven applications simultaneously, and everything about iPad’s weekend debut and first full week of sales had “exceeded the market’s expectations.”  In fact, buyers and reviewers felt so...
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Apple iPad debut set for April 3

On Friday, March 5, Apple Inc announced the revolutionary new iPad will debut in stores on April 3.  This new launch date represents a small delay for the netbook’s launch, but Apple officials sweetened the news with their announcement that they also will launch iPad in Canada, Australia, and much of Europe during April. ...
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