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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's new iPad: 264PPI Retina display, A5X with quad-core graphics, iSight, 5MP camera, 4G LTE, March 16th from $499 — Apple has today announced its new iPad 3, which comes packing a new high-resolution Retina display. “Until you see it you can't understand how amazing it is”, said CEO Tim Cook.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @nickbilton, @bill_gross, @parislemon, @thenextweb, @antderosa and @thenextweb
See also Mediagazer| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Apple new iPad hands-on (update: video!) — Here she is — the [iPad HD]! Er, new iPad. Breaking away from the numerical tracking system used before (and still used in the iPhone range), Apple has decided to highlight the most major change in its newest slate by simply dubbing it “new.”
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PC World, SlashGear, CNN, Mercury News, CNET, Forbes, LAPTOP Magazine, Delimiter, MacStories, The Verge, The Loop, The Register and Gizmodo
| Stephen Hackett / 512 Pixels: |
iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps [Updated] — Whatever map tiles are in iPhoto for iOS, they don't look like Google Maps: — Apple, back in 2009, bought PlaceBase, a mapping company. Rumors have been circulating for years that Apple was developing its own mapping solution.
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ProgrammableWeb, The Next Web, Ars Technica, The Verge, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, MacStories, Dustin Curtis, parislemon and Spatially Adjusted. Tweets: @holgr
| William Savona / The Verge: |
New iPad vs. the competition: by the numbers — Now that the 3rd generation iPad is out, we thought it was time to see how it stacks up against the competition. Luckily our product database is perfect for that, and we've put together a comparison for you including the iPad 2 …
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CNET, Fortune and Open Source Blog
| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
What LTE Means for Apple and the Wireless Industry — The new iPad is Apple's first mobile device compatible with the so-called fourth-generation LTE networks. The introduction of this new feature means more for the future of Apple and the wireless industry than it does for the iPad itself.
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Digits, The Verge and Gotta Be Mobile
| Joe White / App Advice: |
Apple Increases App Download Limit To A Massive 50MBs — Apple has just increased its App Store iOS application download size limit from 20 megabytes to a massive 50 megabytes. — This is big news. Previously, when using a cellular data network Apple fans could only download iOS applications …
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The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, Macgasm, WebProNews, MacStories, MacRumors, TUAW, Touch Arcade, Engadget and PhoneArena. Thanks:@joewhite89
| Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire: |
Ranking the New iPad Rumormongers — Now that Apple has unveiled the latest in its iPad franchise, it's time to take a look at how our tech bloggers did with their predictions. This morning we rounded up the various speculations of our favorite rumor blogs.| Larry Dignan / CNET: |
Apple's new iPad: Now the company competes with everyone — What Tim Cook didn't say—but still clearly implied—is that Apple is now a rival to damn near everyone else in the tech industry. — Apple's launch of its latest iPad illustrates how technology's most valuable company in terms …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget: |
Apple TV vs. the new Apple TV (2012): what's changed? — The Apple TV might still be a hobby, and thus not the main event at Tim Cook's Apple presentation today, but Apple's participation in the living room has had its fair share of rumors, speculation and dreams.
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VentureBeat, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, Zatz Not Funny!, AnandTech and TechSpot. Tweets: @pkafka
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
HBO Deals Keep Fox, Universal Out of New iCloud Movie Service — As widely predicted, Apple has updated its Apple TV accessory. This isn't an overhaul but an update: The new box offers better resolution and software upgrades. — The new device will support video in 1080p … | Darren Murph / Engadget: |
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| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
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Tweets: @marcoarment and @parislemon
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iOS 5.1 Now Available with Japanese Siri, Camera Enhancements, and More — Following Apple's announcement that iOS 5.1 would debut today, the software update is now available for existing iOS devices. Among the notable additions are Japanese language support for Siri, camera enhancements … | Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Video of Apple's iPad Media Event Now Available — Just half an hour after the end of the event, Apple has already posted video of its third-generation iPad media event to its site. Among the products announced at the event: - Apple Introduces ‘The New iPad’ with Retina Display, A5X Chip …
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
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Shiny Objects, The Next Web, Internaut, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Communications …, Cult of Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, Wired.co.uk, Laughing Squid, TUAW, iPad in Canada Blog and Business Insider
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @swildstrom, @bleepnik and @jbruin
| TSA Out of Our Pants!: |
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners — This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe …
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The TSA Blog, WebProNews, Gizmodo and PC Magazine
| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Got QA? It's the new tech apprenticeship — Quality assurance or QA is not one of the more glamorous positions in the tech world but it may be just the stepping stone necessary to bring in a new generation of programmers. That's the thinking behind a new White House initiative called SummerQAmp …
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The Next Web, Computerworld, Betabeat and TechCrunch
| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Google looking to unload Motorola's TV set-top box business — This just in: The TV set-top box is on its deathbed. — Google is looking to unload the set-top box business it will inherit from Motorola Mobility even before it closes on the $12.5 billion acquisition, The Post has learned.
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