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Archive for March, 2010

Another analyst has piled onto the growing sentiment that Verizon will not offer a CDMA iPhone by the middle of 2010 – or not until 2011. Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner said Wednesday a 2-month manufacturing delay in a “key component” will push the CDMA handset’s launch back to the fourth quarter of 2010 or the [...]

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If you’re wondering whether iPad is just going to be a big iPhone or iPod Touch, look no further than the preview released by iVerse Comics to see the depth and complexity of the iPad’s touchscreen features.
Comics and other traditionally text and image-based reading material have been somewhat less than satisfying to read [...]

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Remember all the talk earlier this year that Apple was developing its own search engine, possibly even picking Microsoft’s Bing to replace Google as the default iPhone search? Well, such speculation has reignited. A popular Apple analyst now believes there’s a 70 percent chance the Cupertino, Calif. company will create a mobile search engine in [...]

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The newly updated MapQuest 4 Mobile can now speak to you while you travel, effectively providing free GPS-powered navigation.
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SEAS released updated version of media player—DozeGuard, for iPhone and iPod touch. The app allows users listen to their audio files while at the same time monitors whether they are still awake. It is designed to turn off when the user begins falling asleep. If the device is not moved by the user after a certain time, the app stops playing the track but remembers the position, and if the same track is selected next time it continues at the same point. Users can also design a list of titles to be played and have the ability to store the list for use at a later date.

Features:
* Allows to select a list of podcast, music and audio book titles
* Stores the list of selected titles across application starts
* Stores the position of the last 10 titles which were stopped automatically
* Displays title artwork
* Darkens the screen during the play
* Gently moving the device is sufficient to prove alertness
* Jump to position of last move with a button click
* Jump to position of auto stop with a button click
* Use position slider to find exact position
* Use specific loudness level per audio book title (10 titles)

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later
* 1.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
DozeGuard 1.1 is available for 0.99 (USD) worldwide exclusively through the App Store.

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Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, we love you, but this? This is kinda BS. Jeffrey wrote a letter to investors, saying that Apple will build a search engine to go against Google. He said:

We believe Apple could utilize data unavailable to Google, data generated by the company’s App Store, to create a mobile centric search engine, which would be a unique offering to Google’s search engine.

An iPhone specific search engine could be a difficult undertaking, but we feel Apple could make a minor acquisition of a search company that has built a web index, like a Cuil, and utilize the index as the base for building its own engine.

We believe the odds of Apple developing a search engine in the next five years are 70%. One hurdle for Apple in developing its own search engine would be generating enough advertiser interest to form a competitive marketplace; however, we believe the rationale for an Apple search product is to protect data rather than generate profit.

Let me put it this way: Cuil was so bad, it started an internet meme based on how bad its search results were. Bing is better, but still nobody uses it, even though its combined with Yahoo right now. Munster says this fight is about protecting data, but I’m really not seeing it. Apple market is captive for the iPhone/iPad, but it still isn’t enough to make a sustainable market.

[via Business Insider]

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Dang, just…dang. According to TUAW,  Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania has announced that for Fall 2010 year, every full time student will be given an iPad as part of their Technology Advantage Program, saying ”students will be able to download their textbooks to their iPads from the iBook Store. In addition, iPads can be used as phones and for air and file sharing, as well as note-taking.” Apparently first-years are also given a 13-inch MacBook for more intense work.

I’m sure the cost of all this is just folded into the fees, but that’s still a pretty sweet deal for the small, Catholic, liberal arts University with enrollment of 2100 students. Maybe it’s time to go in for a PhD…

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iPad in Canada are saying that the device might be landing on their northern shores on the 24th of April. Apparently that day is marked as a “black out” day, where staff can’t take time off:

We were contacted by a source with close ties to the Apple Store that the weekend of April 24th has been marked as a “black out period” for staff. This means no employees are allowed to book this day off. If that’s the case, then it would make sense that this indeed would be the launch date for the iPad in Canada. Anytime there’s a “black out period” you know it’s for something big.

Apple promised a “late April” international introduction for the iPad, which fits with the 24th date, so it might hit other nations as well. Any Apple UK employees want to verify that for us?

If you’re in the USA, and want to win an iPad, today is the last day to enter our competition! Get cracking, folks!

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

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Sachin Agarwal is one of the founders of hip email blogging service Posterous – but he used to work for Apple, and like a lot of us, he has opinions about OS X.
His latest is something that sparks a certain amount of controversy, because he’s predicting the imminent death of the Finder.

Sachin’s been reading between [...]

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The iPad Guided Tours that Apple published yesterday are a great way of getting a better idea of what it will actually be like to use an iPad.
But they also show us how Apple’s own “My Documents” feature – first spotted by us back in February – will work.

Documents are displayed large, and you flip [...]

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