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At the annual D10 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, tech and industry analyst Mary Meeker did her now famous slide show of Internet Trends. Last year in her slides at the Web 2.0 Summit she told us how the future is all about mobile. This year, she came up with some more interesting stats, but nothing too mind-numbing.
Facebook announced a new venture that they plan to launch in the near future - a mobile App Center, which will be a neutral mobile app discovery tool on the social networking platform. The goal of the App Center will be to have one central location to find social apps, clearly since Facebook dominates social they want to harvest it as much as possible - with mobile being the future - this was a very strategic move. Being neutral between Apple and Google is key, so it’s one place to find apps regardless of what platform you use.
Looking for some cool Apple wallpapers for your desktop or laptop? Look no further, here are ten that you are sure to love. If you are looking for Apple iPhone wallpapers specifically, check here instead. If you have any other good Apple computer wallpapers, please post a link in the comments!
Foxconn is the Chinese factory that puts together all of the Apple products, such as the iPhone and iPad. It’s a pretty rare event when cameras are let into Foxconn, and in this video from Marketplace, they take us inside of Foxconn for a brief but telling view of how it is to work at Foxconn and what it looks like when an iPad is put together.
If you can’t wait to get the new iPad third generation, which is available to the public on March 16; you can check out this unboxing video from Vietnamese blogger Sonlazio. He provides a first look into the new iPad and a bunch of great photos. Thankfully, since I don’t speak Vietnamese, he points a lot in the video and you can make sense of the new features such as the bigger 5 megapixel camera.
After yesterday’s news about Twitter acquiring Posterous, I was curious to know how much Twitter paid for the acquisition. Through the announcement yesterday from Twitter, it was clear that they were buying up the blogging site to secure great talent, but how much were they willing to pay?
Not only does Apple’s iPhone assistant Siri help you in the palm of your hand with voice commands, Siri is now getting upgraded to become the first voice activated mobile assistant for Mercedes-Benz vehicles. According to Mercedes, Siri will be integrated into it’s A-Class electronics system as part of the Digital DriveStyle App.
Those that were expecting a miracle from the new iPad (iPad third gen) may be a little disappointed, but not too badly. The new iPad event just ended a short time ago, with announcements of some nice new features for iPad lovers.
Could this be it, the mythical beast that will come before us next Wednesday? The futuristic newest iteration to the iPad made so famous by the late Steve Jobs? Quite possibly so says Apple, with their invite they just sent out to the press.
comScore released their 2012 Mobile Future in Focus report, which is the first of an annual report that examines the mobile and connected device landscape and gives insights and projections for the following year based on this compiled information.
I have been waiting five years for this. Ever since the first iPhone where you could watch videos, I have been wondering, when will mobile devices include a projector to broadcast what your watching onto a wall to watch as a TV. It has finally happened, but not by Apple unfortunately.
Ah, now it makes a bit more sense for all the hubbub yesterday when Microsoft laid the smack down on Google. It looks like Microsoft may be drumming up some publicity and trying to shine some additional light to their business solution products for good reason.
On the Apple site for iTunes, they are counting down to the moment that the iTunes App Store hits 25 billion app downloads with a snazzy countdown ticker, which is moving extremely fast.
Believe it or not, the FBI had a full 191 page file on Steve Jobs. It isn’t what you’re thinking though. According to VentureBeat, Jobs applied for an official government position as part of George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1991.
As part of a NY Times post on the updated and new premium services for Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine, they let out a tidbit of information that 25% of all searches on the search engine derive from Siri. Siri as you know is the Apple intelligent voice assistant which just debuted with the iPhone 4S a few months ago.
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