Archives for April 2011
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Browse By Day in April 2011
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Rumor: Apple to Update Final Cut Pro at NAB SuperMeet
Apple will be “taking over” the tenth annual SuperMeet event at NAB this month to unveil a new, unannounced update…
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Analyst “Skeptical” on Competitors Catching Up to iPad 2
Analyst Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank is skeptical that Apple’s competitors can catch up to the iPad 2, and he…
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Apple Posts iAd Gallery App for Viewing iAds…Seriously
Apple of the last ten to twelve years is likely to go down as one of the best marketing companies…
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13” MacBook Air 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo: $1359
The Deal Brothers noted that Apple is currently offering the refurbished 13” MacBook Air 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for…
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Survey: Verizon iPhones Drop Fewer Calls than AT&T
iPhone owners on Verizon’s networks experience far fewer dropped calls than AT&T owners — some 37.5% as many — according…
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Mobee Delivers An Inductive Charger for the Magic Mouse
Mobee Technology offers an inductive charger for those who love their Apple Magic Mouse but hate the frequency with which…
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Apple to Toyota: Ditch the iPhone Jailbreak Theme
Toyota’s foray into advertising to iPhone users that jailbreak looks to be short lived thanks to a request from Apple…
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Get a Refund on Your Unused AppleCare Agreement
When you sell or give away a Mac that has a current AppleCare agreement, you can transfer the AppleCare along…
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Google Books for iPhone, iPad Adds Landscape Mode
Google released Google Books 1.1.0.2247 for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on Wednesday. The updated version of the ebook…
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VirnetX Adds iPad 2 to Communications Patent Case
VirnetX is expanding the scope of its lawsuit against Apple, Cisco, NEC and Aastra now that it has been awarded…
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Court Overturns Cover Flow Patent Ruling Against Apple
Apple has won its appeal in a patent lawsuit related to its Cover Flow and Time Machine technologies. Mirror Worlds…
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Reader Discussion: Dealing with Address Book Duplicates
Apple’s products may be great, but that doesn’t always mean they work properly. Today TMO’s Mac Geek Gab Crew forum…
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iPad 2 Tops Consumer Reports Tablet List
Consumer Reports’ latest tablet computer ranking was released on Tuesday, and Apple’s iPad 2 earned the top spot on the…
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Rumor: iPhone 5 to Launch Late June
Apple has historically launched new iPhone models in the late June, early July window, and now there’s a rumor claiming…
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Nasdaq-100 to Cut Apple’s Index Share Nearly in Half
The Nasdaq stock exchange is rebalancing its Nasdaq-100 index in an effort to more accurately balance the companies that are…
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Feds Subpoena Pandora, Others on App Information Gathering
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Pandora and other app makers on Apple’s iOS platform and Google’s Android platform looking…
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Financial Times Fights Apple on Access to Subscriber Data
The Financial Times of London is fighting to maintain control over the customer relationship (meaning control of customer data), and…
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MGG 323: Modifier Keys, Custom Icons, Spotlight, More
As always, your two favorite geeks are here to start the week! John and Dave dive right in and start…
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Coffee Table Book King Ditches Books for Apps
Nicholas Callaway, a major publisher of coffee table books, is “betting the ranch” on apps as the future of his…
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Z-Boost METRO YX-540 Boosts Cell Phone Reception
Cell phones aren’t perfect. No matter how smart their features, their ability to make and receive reliable calls often suffers.…
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Sanyo Xacti 1080 Full-HD Camcorder: $89.99 Today
The Deal Brothers found a one-day deal on the Sanyo Xacti 1080 Full-HD Camcorder for $89.99. It features 3x Optical Zoom, and…
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Apple Store Smash-and-grab Leads to Fatal Shooting
Suspects attempting to break into Apple’s Otay Ranch Town Center Apple Store ended up with more than they bargained for…
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Negative Feelings About AAPL — What’s Going On with Apple?
Apple stock (AAPL) has fallen off a small cliff today. Are there real problems to worry about? Are investors fatigued?…
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Rumor: Next iPod nano to Bring Back Camera
Apple may be planning on including a digital camera in its seventh generation iPod nano, just as it did on…
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Apple Patent Hints at iWeb for iPad
Apple’s iWeb may be destined to join Keynote, Pages and Numbers on the iPad. The tip off that Apple’s Web…
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Reader Discussion: Controlling Mail’s Rules
Apple’s Mail application for Mac OS X offers a lot of control over messages, but still not enough for some…
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Canaccord Raises AAPL on Strong iPhone, iPad Sales Estimates
Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley expects Apple will maintain its dominating position in the smartphone and tablet markets and will…
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Apple Unveils First iPad 2 Commercial
Apple premiered its first iPad 2 commercial over the weekend about three weeks after the second generation multimedia tablet shipped.…
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Untethered iOS 4.3.1 Jailbreak Hits the Web
The always busy iPhone Dev-Team released PwnageTool 4.2 on Sunday, bringing untethered jailbreak support to iOS 4.3.1. The software-based tool…
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Solving Gmail Password Rejection in Mail.app
A lot of you who rely on Apple Mail are familiar with the oh-so-irritating dialog box that pops up asking…
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Apple Adds Additional Supplier for iPad 2 Displays
Apple has added an additional supplier for displays for the iPad 2, according to Taiwan Economic News (TEN). AU Optronics…
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Target Tool Shows Which Stores Have iPad 2
If you’re looking for an iPad 2, it turns out that Target has an online tool for finding products at…
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3 Free Comics: King Kong, Superare, Do Androids Dream…
Do super heros exist? How about super villains? Vern Seward tackles these questions in this week’s Free on iTunes and…
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Particle Debris (wk. ending 4/1) Singing in the Rain
Some of what you read today will, of course, be foolishness. But there’s been plenty of legit foolishness to go…
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13” MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo: $929
The Deal Brothers found a deal on a refurbished 13” MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $929.00. This laptop ships…
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Mac Pro SSD and Hard Drive Combo: How and Why
Is it worth adding an SSD (solid-state drive) to a Mac Pro? Should you split your data between an SSD…
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Apple, 31 Other Cos. Hit With Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Apple, Nokia, Motorola, RIM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and 25 other companies were slapped with a lawsuit filed by H-W Technology…
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ThinkGeek Creates PLAYMOBIL Apple Store For April Fool’s Day
ThinkGeek on Friday posted an imaginative April Fool’s Day prank: An Apple Store PLAYMOBIL set, complete with Steve Jobs conducting…
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1st Gen iPads Still Available, But Supplies Are Dwindling
Given the long wait times for iPad 2, some are opting for the first-generation iPad bargains found on Apple’s web…
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WWDC Tickets Fetch a Premium on eBay
Apple’s 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) sold out within ten hours this year, leading to the kind of inflated ticket…
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Acer Board: Ousted CEO Should Have Focused on Tablets, Not Laptops
Acer has pushed out its CEO, Gianfranco Lanci, amid accusations from its board that he should have been focused on…
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Happy 35th Birthday, Apple!
Apple turns 35 years old today. The company that started in a garage now employs almost 50,000 people and booked…
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Turn Your iPhone 4 into a Magnifying Glass
The camera in the iPhone 4 is very basic, but can be used as a modest magnifier with 5x zoom.…
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Guy Kawasaki Discusses How to be Enchanting
Fortune Senior Editor-at-Large Adam Lashinsky has a new interview on the magazine’s web site in which he talks to Guy Kawasaki…
