Apple Planning Major Product Launch Next Week
A refreshed lineup of MacBook Pro laptops may debut next week, according to a Friday report by AppleInsider. Citing the ever-chatty "people familiar with the matter," the Apple-oriented blog says that Cupertino is mulling whether to launch the updated notebooks before the end of February. If so, Apple is running out of time to issue party invites.
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Verizon customers line up for iPhone 4
Verizon's new iPhone 4 became available in stores nationwide on Thursday, and buyers were lined up outside Grand Island's store when it opened its doors at 7 a.m.
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Product News: Box.net Gets AirPrint, Video Out Support
Box.net rolled out a new update for its iPhone and iPad app on Thursday that added support for iOS 4.2’s AirPrint feature along with support for displaying video out via Apple’s VGA Dock adapter.
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Obama meets US tech titans, including Apple's Jobs
President Barack Obama Thursday met the cream of Silicon Valley business titans, including Apple's Steve Jobs, to seek input on how to speed up job growth and economic recovery.
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Your iPad is an arcade cabinet: the journey from joke to product
ThinkGeek has a great system to drum up free publicity: fill the site with "fake" products to get its fans drooling on April Fools Day, and then wait for the blogs to hyperventilate over the idea of actually owning some of the items. Last year one of the products was the "iCade," a dock for your iPad that added arcade-style controls and made the system look as it if were a tiny arcade cabinet ...
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Product News: iWork for iPad Fixes Chinese, Japanese Text Issues
Apple released Keynote, Pages and Numbers 1.3.1 for the iPad on Wednesday with a predictive text fix for Chinese and Japanese characters. iWork is Apple’s productivity suite that includes a presentation app, a document design and editing app, and a spreadsheet app.
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FIRST CUTS: WikiLeaks says NYT ‘has got to go’; What’s next for MSNBC ?
Here's our list of headlines that should be on your morning media menu: • Tunisia's interim government shut down the country's "oldest and most popular private television network." (New York Times) • On Twitter Sunday, WikiLeaks declared: "The NYTimes has got to go. It can not be repaired. It is a hopeless government shrill." Looks [... ]
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Product News: Quark Unveils iPad Digital Publishing Tools
Quark introduced App Studio for its Quark Publishing System and iPad Publishing Service for QuarkXPress 8.5 on Thursday. The services help Quark product users build magazine apps for the iPad and create digital versions of publication issues for display in the apps.
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XBMC Now Available For Jailbroken iPhone And iPad
iOS: We recently showed you how to install XBMC on your 2nd-gen Apple TV , but if you’re looking for a more mobile experience, XBMC has just been released on Cydia for jailbreaking iPhone and iPad users. (more…)
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Product News: Comcast to Stream TV to iPad (“Later” on Android)
Comcast announced Wednesday that it was bringing support for streaming live and On Demand TV shows and movies to its Xfinity TV iPad app. The company said this feature would be added to its iPad app in the next few weeks (no specificity), and that it would eventually bring the same features to Android, “later this year.”
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Gadget show bringing fiercer competition to Apple's iPad
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple Inc.’s popular iPad is getting its strongest competition thus far as consumer-electronics manufacturers unveil tablet computers with bigger screens, front-facing cameras for video chatting and more.
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Apple's iPad: Disruptive product of the year
In 2010, the iPad was disruptive to the broad personal computing market in many ways. But for me the disruption was personal. Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog
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Poke Fun at Workspace Culture with Cubicle Golf for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch from Plow Digital
Make work stink less with Plow Digital’s latest iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch charming arcade golf game.
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Product News: Apple Updates Apple Remote for iPad/iPhone
Apple has released Apple Remote 2.1 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, an update that includes AirPlay support, streaming Internet radio stations control, and more. The app is used to control Apple TV and iTunes from anywhere in your home, allowing you to play audio and video to and through Apple TV or your computers.
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Squarespace Takes Blogging on iPad to the Next Level
Web publishing platform Squarespace has released the first version of its iPad app. Squarespace for iPad [iTunes link] is a free app that lets Squarespace users not only create and edit blog posts, but also moderate…
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Product News: Apple Adds AirPlay to Apple Remote for iPad/iPhone
Apple has released Apple Remote 2.1 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, an update that includes AirPlay support, streaming Internet radio stations control, and more. The app is used to control Apple TV and iTunes from anywhere in your home, allowing you to play audio and video to and through Apple TV or your computers.
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CNN App (for iPad)
Watch and share your favorite content on the go with the CNN App (for iPad).
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