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20 Nov 2010 22:00

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Tech: TapTyping makers Flairify: People can type 100WPM on an iPad

  • It’s been a few months since we posted about TapTyping, Flairify’s tap-typing app for the iPad. Anyway, they let us know the other day about two new features on their app: One, a universal version’s out (so you can test your tap-typing skillz with your thumbs on an iPhone or iPod Touch), and also, there’s a new leaderboard feature. Would you believe that someone can actually type 111 words a minute on an iPad? Well, someone has. Get that person a job as a secretary. source
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12 Nov 2010 20:18

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Music: Protip to Microsoft: Don’t use bands to market your stuff, ever

  • marketing Gorillaz, Damon Albarn’s ultra-popular cartoon-meets-music collective, has a marketing campaign with Microsoft for Internet Explorer 9.
  • muse Despite this, Albarn himself has been singing the praises of the iPad, to the point where he says he recorded an album on the iPad. Not good for Microsoft. source
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11 Nov 2010 13:31

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Offbeat: Lithuanian protesters come up with innovative new protest sign

  • Need a new use for your iPad? Here you go. Steve Jobs is going to make a killing at the next Tea Party rally in DC. source
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09 Nov 2010 13:46

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Culture: Washington Post: Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee talk iPad apps

  • You know Ben Bradlee? He knows the score on the iPad. Bob Woodward goes to him for advice on how to use it. To newspapers: This is how you advertise your iPad app. That’s right. Turn your most grizzled journalists into pitchmen.
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27 Oct 2010 21:44

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Tech: How many employees does Apple have? We know the answer

  • 46,600 that’s way up from just last year source
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22 Oct 2010 15:44

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U.S.: Sylvester Cann IV wants you to know Obama signed his iPad

  • You want attention, dude? You want to make a site clearly pimping out the fact that you got Barack Obama to sign your iPad? You want to put your phone number on your site so that people will pay attention to you and possibly offer you some sort of something? You got it man. Here’s a link to your site, you publicity hound. Hopefully our link will get you on the Today Show or something, so that you can parlay your fifteen microseconds of fame into a reality show. source
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18 Oct 2010 20:05

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Biz, Tech: Apple’s 3Q earnings report overloaded with (mostly) good news

  • 91% increase in iPhone sales from a year ago (wow)
  • $20
    billion     Apple’s quarterly revenues, which happens to be a new record for them, by the way
  • $4
    billion     Apple’s quarterly profits, which is also a record for them – and up 70 percent (!); freaking show-offs
  • +28% increase in Mac sales year-over-year; not bad considering their light recent publicity
  • +28% increase in iPad sales from last quarter; pretty good but not particularly spectacular
  • -11% decline in year-over-year iPod sales, which admittedly was kind of expected source
  • » Investors somehow not impressed: Wait, what? Well, here’s why: They expected the increase in Apple’s iPad sales to be much higher, so as a result, Apple’s stock went down five percent in after-hours trading. You bastards can’t ever be impressed, can you?
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18 Oct 2010 10:37

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Tech: Apple: The iPad isn’t technically a PC, but if it were …

  • 10.6% Apple’s share of the PC market in the third quarter – enough for third place on growing Mac sales
  • 25% Apple’s share of the PC market in the third quarter – IF the iPad were included; they’d be in first source
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14 Oct 2010 10:06

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Tech: Harbinger? AT&T, Verizon to start selling iPads at the same time

  • at&t They’ll begin selling Apple’s iPad, including the 3G version, starting October 28th.
  • verizon Strangely enough, so will Verizon, but they’ll bundle it with MiFi, which is pretty genius. source
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13 Oct 2010 10:54

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Biz, Tech: Don’t own any Apple stock? Start kicking yourself now, loser

  • $300.20 Apple’s opening stock price this morning, which is the first time it’s been above $300
  • 43% the stock’s increase this year alone; guess that iPad pushed it over the edge or something source
  • » And it gets better: In the time that Steve Jobs has been behind the wheel – since 1997 – the stock has increased immensely. It’s 30 times bigger than it was just seven years ago, when everyone was first going gaga over the third-generation iPod.
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