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Just released on iTunes for the iPhone and iPad comes one of the best movies ever made, which is now available as an app created by Fuse Powered Inc., who worked with Universal Pictures to take the iconic mobster figure Tony Montana and bring him to our mobile devices.
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?
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.
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.
I am channeling my inner Pauly D for my excitement here. Star Wars and Lucas Films have released their official iOS gaming app for iPhone and iPad. Although I am excited, it’s not the iOS game that I would have hoped for, but hey, it’s Star Wars.
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.
When you do your bulk grocery shopping at your local Sam’s club in the near future, you may be able to step foot into a mini-Apple store according to 9to5 Mac. Sources are saying that Sam’s club, which is a subsidiary of Walmart is in talks with Apple to expand their already Apple friendly in-store sales to open them up to mini-stores within Sam’s club locations.
An interesting statistic came up with the Canalys Quarter 4 - 2011 report on smart phone and PC sales. Canalys reports that for the first time, smart phone sales have overtaken PC sales.
At Guggenheim in NY yesterday, at the Apple Education event, Apple announced a better way for students to consume information and be educated. Apple announced the new iBooks Textbooks, offering to do away with heavy, clunky, expensive and outdated textbooks and suggesting that iPads replace them; reinventing the way students learn and how educators use tools to teach.
G-Form, a company that makes extreme electronics cases and athletic pads, launched an iPad 100,000 feet up into space to see how the iPad holds up and if it was able to survive the descent back to earth, in a free fall with the only thing saving it from destruction being the G-Form Extreme Edge iPad case.
There is one core advantage and disadvantage to the iPad. It’s big. It’s bigger than the iPhone, which is the advantage. It has more real estate to make things easier on the eyes, and you can fit more and do more on a single page with the beautiful touch technology of iOS and the apps ecosystem. The disadvantage is that the iPad weighs considerably more than the iPhone, so holding it with one hand while touching the screen with the other hand can take it’s toll.
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