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bgrier — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:30:04 +0000

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Apple announces iPad Personal Setup service

bgrier — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:43:10 +0000

Apple announced today that their retail stores will offer a free Personal Setup service to iPad customers. New customers who buy an iPad at a retail store will be offered time with an employee to set up email accounts, install their favorite apps from the store and more. Additionally, all US Apple Stores will host special iPad workshops starting on Saturday morning.

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NPR and WSJ Building iPad-Only Websites

bgrier — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:54:56 +0000

Both sites will automatically detect when web surfers arrive via an iPad device and will then show those visitors a special version of the site, customized exclusively for the iPad. How exactly will these sites compare to the web pages regular site visitors see? There's just one difference: they won't feature any Adobe Flash technology.

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The Three Types of iPad Buyer: Zealot, Gifter, Big iPoder

bgrier — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:50:58 +0000

There appear to be three types of iPad buyer currently circling the iPad pre-orders and each is decidedly different.   They range from religious types who think the device is the equivalent of Moses’ tablets all the way over to folks that just want a bigger iPod.

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iPad anticipation lights new fire under iPhone apps

bgrier — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:49:39 +0000

The tablet will run all the same apps as the iPhone, so the imminent release of the iPad has given developers a welcome new target platform and user base – one better adapted than a phone to certain types of software, such as high end games or ebooks. This week, Flurry updated its figures and reported that initiations of iPhone OS apps have leapt 185% since the iPad was unveiled on January 27.

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Plastic Logic Que Gets Delayed at Worst Possible Time

bgrier — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:45:13 +0000

Just as Apple puts up some impressive pre-order numbers for its iPad, Plastic Logic comes forth with some unfortunate news about its own Que: the slick-looking ebook reader is being delayed until summer.

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E-textbooks: The New Best-sellers

bgrier — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:37:20 +0000

Many educators are pointing to Apple Computer's recently announced iPad as the prototype for an e-reader that will be able to hold all the textbooks a student needs. Its color touch-screen, interactive-video capability and virtual keyboard, they say, give it greater potential for textbook users than monochrome readers like Amazon's Kindle.

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Ghostcc – Cloud Computing Desktop discontinues free-to-public services

bgrier — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:01 +0000

We hope you have been enjoying our free Ghost service. Regrettably changes in the marketplace mean that it is no longer economical for us to host the Ghost service and we will be closing down the service on or around March 15. We will instead be focusing on licensing or selling our technology to larger companies.

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Barnes & Noble Announces iPad App: Will Apple Really Let It Fly?

bgrier — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:38:23 +0000

The B&N eReader app is already available in the App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch, complete with its own micropayment system for buying books, but then, Apple doesn't have its own bookstore for that platform. Why would Barnes & Noble make this announcement, knowing full well that traditional Apple would smack it down immediately in the approval process?

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Microsoft’s Courier Is Already Doomed: A Simple iPad App Shows Why

bgrier — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:36:19 +0000

Now, PadNotes is not Courier. It's developed by a small software company (Tirpirneni software), and though it's clever, it's evidently a first-gen piece of code. But you know by the third gen, it'll be even more awesome.

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