There has been much speculation as to what the name of Apple’s new 4G iPad will be called. Rumors have abounded, but it will not be called the iPad 3, the iPad 2S or the iPad HD. Wednesday, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, unveiled what is simply called the
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Apple has been the subject of numerous articles accusing the company of allowing human rights abuses in factories producing Apple products overseas. The company is pledging to do more, but something is rotten in the state of Apple. Muckraking turns up allegations of worker abuse Apple has long been a
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Apple introduced iBooks 2, its new textbook platform for iPads, Thursday at an educational event held at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. The new app, Apple says, will allow students to download required textbooks for a fraction of the cost of heavy hard copies. Three of the top
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As many as two dozen fake iPad 2s were sold by more than one Vancouver, B.C., retailer over the holidays. Consumers victimized in the fraud bought sealed boxes containing a slab of modeling clay, molded to resemble an iPad 2. Investigators are calling it a professional and well-planned scam. Boxes
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Apple announced Friday that it will be opening 25 new store-within-a-store mini locations at Target retail stores nationwide. The move is Apple’s attempt to expand its retail presence to populations too small to support a standalone brick-and-mortar Apple store. Stores-within-stores few and far between Target is second only to retail
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According to a current report, more than 1 billion apps were downloaded worldwide during the last week of 2011. That is an all-time record. Apps explosion The Flurry Analytics report, released Monday, combines totals from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market. The report showed a record-breaking 1.2 billion app
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I had it in my head today to do a year end roundup piece on the best apps of 2011, using as its basis a consensus of opinions from various Internet tech sites. What I found was that there is no such consensus. However, the one app that turned up
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Apple Inc. failed to block the sales of Samsung Electronic Co.’s Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet computer in a German court Thursday. Originally, the court had agreed with Apple that the Galaxy infringed on the iPad’s intellectual rights. But then Samsung made some modifications. Ban reversed In September, Judge Johanna Brueckner-Hofmann
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Google’s Zeitgeist has just released its distillation of the most popular and fastest-growing trending searches for 2011. This is the 11th annual survey the site has released. Various categories The top 10 searches were listed in various categories. The categories included people, fastest-rising searches, fastest-falling searches, news, TV shows, celebrity
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On Dec. 8, Apple released “Rewind 2011,” its yearly list of the best and most popular iTunes Store downloads. The list also includes picks for the best app and game of the year. The top picks were ranked in several different categories. Angry Birds fly high The most downloaded paid
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