Rene Ritchie
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iPad Update: DRM-Free ePub Support and Voice Over for iBooks, Facebook Sharing, Data-plan Management
March 14, 2010 - 06:56
Tags: Apple, ipad, ipad features, iphone, News
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Apple.com’s new iPad menu item and feature pages shed light on all sorts of interesting new details. We’ve put all of them into an updated version of our Complete iPad and iPhone OS 3.2 Preview article, but here are some of our favorites:
DRM-Free ePub support. If you already have ePub books that are DRM-Free, just [...]
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Apple vs. Google is Getting Personal
March 14, 2010 - 05:29
Tags: Apple, apple vs google, apple vs htc, Eric Schmidt, ipad, iphone, iphone vs android, News, Steve Jobs
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The New York Times has a full length feature up about the state of the Apple vs. Google rivalry and how it’s getting personal. We’ve heard similar several times before, of course, and Apple has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Android manufacturer HTC. But the details here are interesting:
As Google’s plans took [...]
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10% of Microsoft Employees Secretly Using iPhones?
March 13, 2010 - 23:59
Tags: Apple, Ballmer, iphone, iphones at microsoft, microsoft, News, robbie bach
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Much to the chagrin of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Devices and Entertainment honcho Robbie Bach, the Wall Street Journal reports that even publicly stomping on employee iPhones hasn’t stamped them out:
Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior [...]
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Tim Cook’s Bonus: $5 Million Cash, $17 Million Stock. Filling in for Steve Jobs: Priceless
March 13, 2010 - 23:39
Tags: Apple, Bonus, iphone, News, Steve Jobs, tim cook
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Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook stepped up and filled in for Steve Jobs during Jobs’ leave of absence last year, and has been given a discretionary bonus of $5 million, along with 75,000 shares of Apple stock (currently worth just shy of $17 million), by way of thank you bonus.
Keeping Apple not only stable [...]
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91,000 iPads Pre-Ordered in 6 Hours?
March 13, 2010 - 18:19
Tags: Apple, ipad, iphone, News, pre-order, reserve for pickup
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iPad pre-orders went live at 5:30am PT, 8:30am ET and in the 6 hours that follow, Fortune relays that Apple has moved 91,000 of the magical and revolutionary new devices. (50,000 in the first 2 hours!)
The estimates are based on a bunch of impatient investors on the AAPL Sanity Board inputing and tracking order numbers [...]
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Tony Hawk for iPhone “Real” and “Dropping Soon”
March 12, 2010 - 22:35
Tags: App Store Apps, Apple, apps, Games, iphone, News, tony hawk
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Tony Hawk for iPhone? Let’s just him do the tweeting… er… talking:
In the PR world, this is considered “going rogue,” but I’m too excited to contain it. This is real & dropping soon.
Happy?
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Goodbye iPad Mute Switch, Hello iPad Orientation Lock Switch
March 12, 2010 - 18:24
Tags: 4th gen iphone, Apple, ipad, iphone, mute switch, News, orientation lock, yeahbuwhy
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Something has changed on Apple.com’s revamped iPad specs page — the mute switch is gone and in its place, a physical hardware button for “screen orientation lock”. That’s right, now you can sit or lounge without fear of the iPad spinning around willy-nilly every time you shift one way or ‘tother. However, you can’t quickly [...]
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