Category Archives: iPad

Analyst: iPads, Kindles, GPS units to be cheaper in 2012

By doris | Published: January 9, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — As the tough economy drags on, cost remains a leading consideration that people use to decide which mobile devices and wireless services they’ll purchase. Dealnews.com just took a look at things that will probably cost consumers either more or less in 2012. Mobile devices featured most prominently on the [...]

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Rumors of new iPads heat up as 2012 arrives

By doris | Published: January 1, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — You may have just unwrapped your new iPad 2, but rumors are already swirling about the iPad 3. The always-fertile field of Apple rumors is once again blossoming furiously, as tech observers pore over the most minute tidbits of information to speculate on the future of the market-leading Apple [...]

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Apple loses ‘iPad’ trademark in China

By doris | Published: December 6, 2011

Full Story at ZDNet.com Apple prides itself on its brand value. But in China, the technology giant may be forced to sell their iPad tablets under a new moniker. The world’s largest technology company lost an ongoing court battle to use their iPad trademark, after claiming that a Chinese company was infringing on the name [...]

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Apple offering Black Friday discounts on iPads, iPods, Macs

By doris | Published: November 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you’ve been weighing buying a new Mac or iPad but are holding out for one of Apple’s rare discounts, Black Friday is your chance. As it’s done in recent years, Apple is holding a “one-day shopping event” for the day after Thanksgiving. A page on Apple’s site invites [...]

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Apple offering Black Friday discounts on iPads, iPods, Macs

By doris | Published: November 23, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you’ve been weighing buying a new Mac or iPad but are holding out for one of Apple’s rare discounts, Black Friday is your chance. As it’s done in recent years, Apple is holding a “one-day shopping event” for the day after Thanksgiving. A page on Apple’s site invites [...]

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What Steve Jobs taught us: It’s OK to fail

By doris | Published: October 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com College dropout. Fired tech executive. Unsuccessful businessman. Steve Jobs will always be best known for his incredible success in guiding Apple Inc. and transforming the entire consumer computer and phone industry. But he’ll also be remembered fondly as the poster child for how making mistakes — and even failing — can [...]

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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies

By doris | Published: October 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of [...]

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How to get an iTunes-like experience on Android

By doris | Published: September 19, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com If you used to use an iPod Touch for all of your music, but have an Android phone, maybe you’d like to carry only one device. With your iPod, you can just use iTunes to sync, organize and manage music, but there’s no one app that lets you manage everything on [...]

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Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks

By doris | Published: September 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARTFORD, Conn. — For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston [...]

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Viacom, Cablevision settle suit over iPad TV app

By doris | Published: August 13, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cablevision Systems Corp. and Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV and other cable TV channels, have settled a lawsuit over software that lets subscribers view Viacom channels and individual shows on demand on their iPads. Viacom had sought millions of dollars in damages and an injunction preventing [...]

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Rumor: Apple working on ‘iPad HD’

By doris | Published: July 11, 2011

Full Story at Rumor: Apple working on ‘iPad HD’ – CNN.com Here’s the latest: The company reportedly is working on a new iPad, due out later this year, that will have a higher-resolution screen. Dubbed the “iPad HD” by a blog called This Is My Next, which is run by former editors from the respected [...]

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Explosion at China iPad factory shows supply risks

By doris | Published: May 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com BEIJING – An explosion at one of two factories that make Apple’s new iPad 2 highlights the risks of a global manufacturing strategy that has cut costs but concentrates production in a few locations. Foxconn Technology Group, the contractor that manufactures Apple’s iPhones and iPads, said Friday’s blast in the western [...]

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