February 3, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The shoes are beginning to drop on that Apple iPad announcement last week, and while Amazon’s getting a pair of loafers dropped on its head, the folks in the publishing world seem to be practicing their end zone dance.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, iPad, Kindle Reader, Steve Jobs
January 29, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Apple and AT&T delivered some big news in a very small voice this week — news that was somewhat overshadowed by all the hoopla over the iPad. The announcement: The partners will allow VOIP on Apple products that use 3G.
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Tags: 3G, allow, Apple, apps, AT&T, iPad, iphone, software developement kit, VOIP
January 25, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Forget those contentious TV ads where Apple and Microsoft mock each other’s operating systems. Think instead of unlikely marriages like Mary Matalin and James Carville, or Bill and Hillary Clinton. Think Microsoft and Apple.
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Tags: Apple, Google, iphone, iTouch, Microsoft, search engine
January 20, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
So January 27 is the day that will live in, if not infamy, at least history, as the day Apple finally broke the suspense and let us all know about their upcoming product plans. Whew.
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Tags: announcement, Apple, consumers, introduction, iphone, Steve Jobs, tablet
January 19, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Well, it seems somewhat official: The Nexus One smartphone didn’t land much of a blow against its arch-rival from Apple, the iPhone.
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Tags: Android, Apple, fiasco, Google, iphone, Nexus One, smartphone
December 28, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Looking for signs that the economy isn’t as bad as you thought?
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Tags: Android, app store, Apple, droid, Google, iphone, iTouch
December 7, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Everybody’s talking about the Cloud, wishing they could be in the Cloud, but scared to venture to the Cloud. Except Apple, which appears to have moved to the computing stratosphere in a big way.
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Tags: acuqisition, Apple, cloud computing, Lala, music, streaming
November 13, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Jokes about nerd revenge and how cool it actually is to be good in school aside, it’s looking like the geeks may, in fact, inherit the earth. This month, Fortune magazine named one of the country’s biggest nerds CEO of the decade.
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Tags: Apple, CEO of the Decade, computers, Fortune, Steve Jobs
November 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
With each new smartphone that enters the market, there’s an inevitable prediction: This latest and greatest will become the iPhone killer. So far, no deaths have been reported, but last week Motorola’s Droid was unveiled.
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Tags: Apple, droid, iphone, motorola, smartphone
September 8, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The blogs are abuzz with chatter among iPhone users who were promised multimedia messaging capability for their iPhone back in June when the popular smartphone’s software got an update. So where is it?
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Tags: Apple, AT&T, iphone, MMS, SMS, Software, update
