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Customers who bought a first-generation iPad in the last two weeks can opt to return their device to Apple, or request a $100 refund, now that the iPad 2 has been announced. Also, the company will release a new dock designed to fit the smaller form factor of the iPad 2, though no new keyboard [...]
Thanks to the success of Apple’s iPad, the Mac-maker accounted for 17.2 percent of all mobile PC shipments worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2010, making it the overall segment leader. DipslaySearch reports Apple shipped over 10.2 million MacBooks and iPads combined during the period, giving it the edge over closest competitors HP by almost [...]
Apple has opened a new chapter in its campaign against hackers with a feature that prevents jailbroken iDevices from accessing iBooks. According to the Social Apples blog, iPhones and iPads running the latest iOS firmware contain a “jailbreak check” that automatically detects when the devices have been unlocked using the greenpois0n jailbreak kit. Jailbroken devices [...]
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber recently gave us his opinion on where Apple is going with its incredibly popular iPad. However, unlike all of the iPad 2 rumors that have been circulating recently, Gruber has instead speculated on Apple’s third-generation device iPad 3 — suggesting that it could be released when the iPod line is updated in September of [...]
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY Add this to the growing list of rumors tied to Apple’s next version of the iPad: The Wall Street Journal reports production on a thinner, lighter version of the device has started. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the newspaper says the new and improved iPad will include at least [...]
A multi-purpose communication tool that allows people communicate their needs by using images that they take with their iPhone and sentences they type in which are then spoken in over 30 languages. We aim to give the “Gift of Speech” to all who wish to communicate via a mobile device- whether the user suffers from [...]
Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users can now view Flash video, thanks to the Skyfire 2.0 app. Unfortunately, it’s temporarily not available, due to massive demand. Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners have made their opinions of Adobe Systems’ Flash technology clear: They want it. Following the introduction to the Apple App Store [...]
An Post has just launched an app to bring post and post offices to iPhones, iPad and iPod touches. The An Post Mobile App lets users track and trace letters or parcels, which shows the progress of any bar-coded mail item, from acceptance to delivery. The app also lets users find the nearest post office [...]
You probably can’t dock your iPad in your existing iPod speaker systems—not without a comical chain of adapters or accidentally tipping the entire thing over, anyway—so iLuv has designed a speaker system specifically for Apple’s tablet. The iLuv iMM747 is a desktop speaker system that uses the company’s jAura soundcell speakers, featuring a tweeter, main driver, [...]
Cisco Systems is updating parts of its product line for small businesses, a world where IT needs have grown up over the past few years. In a broad product rollout set for Wednesday, the company is introducing new managed Ethernet switches, IP (Internet Protocol) phones, security cameras and other products. Cisco faces a wide range [...]