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Amazon Fights Apple…By Improving the iPad

in Media on June 28, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Many people expect Jeff Bezos to combat the iPad by reinventing the Kindle, adding color and other features. Here’s a step: Kindle titles that feature audio and video clips–if you read them on the iPad via Amazon’s Kindle app.

Apple Builds Massive Glass Jai-Alai Court in New York

in News on November 12, 2009 at 12:16 pm PT

When it opens Nov. 14, Apple’s new Upper West Side store in Manhattan will be the company’s 280th worldwide, but it won’t be the newest store in the Apple empire for long. The company plans to open 40 to 50 more in 2010, some in locations like Shanghai, London and Paris. A few of these will be what Apple refers to as “significant stores,” outlets that are striking in both appearance and location.
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Apple’s Insanely Great Quarter: 3.05  Million Macs, 7.4 million iPhones Sold

in News on October 19, 2009 at 1:37 pm PT

Apple’s September quarter saw, among other things, the release of Snow Leopard, the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system and the first public appearance of CEO Steve Jobs, who’d been on a medical leave of absence for a liver transplant. It was also the first full period since the company launched the iPhone 3GS in late June. No wonder it was a blowout quarter.
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The French Get Lost in the Clouds Over a New Term in the Internet Age

in News on October 14, 2009 at 9:20 am PT

The word on the table that morning was “cloud computing.” To translate the English term for computing resources that can be accessed on demand on the Internet, a group of French experts had spent 18 months coming up with “informatique en nuage,” which literally means “computing in cloud.”