Forbidden fruit: Is the Bible Belt unfriendly to Apple?

April 30, 2010

As one might expect, a recent report on Apple’s U.S. market penetration shows its top 10 markets in Apple’s home town, in major metro areas and surprisingly in Las Vegas. However, a look at the bottom 10 reveals that Apple products are sparse in parts of the Bible Belt.
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Apple Flips the Kill Switch on Lala

April 30, 2010

Apple is shutting down Lala, the online streaming music service it purchased last December, fueling speculation that it may be moving the iTunes store, or some variation of it, to the cloud. Such a move would allow users to access music from any device with a Web browser. Currently, iTunes u…

Apple iPad’s tablet competition drop like flies, e-book readers next

April 30, 2010

Less than a month following the launch of Apple’s iPad tablet device and a day before the release of the 3G-capable version on Friday, Microsoft announced that it has dropped plans for the Courier, the tablet that many pundits said would be an iPad killer. Oops, some wishful thinking. Other so…

Adobe Strikes Back at Flash Bashers

April 30, 2010

Adobe has lashed back at Apple following Steve Jobs’ public letter of criticism of Flash, which the Apple CEO posted on his company’s site Thursday. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen responded specifically to several of Jobs’ critiques. Regarding Jobs’ …

Lost iPhone Brings Scoundrels, Sharks and Shysters Out of the Woodwork

April 30, 2010

Can you still support the First Amendment, the blogging community and all that is holy in journalism, and still think that what Gizmodo did re: the lost iPhone was kind of sleazy? Is Gizmodo’s crime one of an ethical/moral nature, or one that is worthy of a police raid by elite members of SW…

iPhone HD finder outed, iAd campaigns as much at $1M, Siri purchase will boost voice capability

April 30, 2010

Wired has unveiled the identity of the person who found that iPhone HD prototype device in the California bar. The man’s name is Brian Hogan and according to Hogan’s attorney, “He regrets his mistake in not doing more to return the phone.”

Reports are coming in that campaigns on the new Apple iAd …

The Joy of Jailbreaking Your iPhone

April 30, 2010

When Apple announced the new features for iPhone OS 4, it did not list any support for the 6.12 million original iPhones and only limited support for the roughly 20 million 3G iPhones. that means roughly half of all the iPhones in the market will not be able to take advantage of all the feat…

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