Archive | April 4th, 2011

Nasdaq to cut Apple’s weighting in the Nasdaq 100 index from 20% down to 12%

4. April 2011

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Nasdaq tomorrow will announce plans to re-weight the Nasdaq 100 index to reduce the impact of Apple which currently comprises 20% of the index. The Wall Street Journal reports that the move is the result of Apple stock’s meteoric rise over the past few years and that the recalibration of the index will leave Apple […]

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Microsoft Kinect hack turns Gmail Motion prank into a reality

4. April 2011

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Google Motion was a cleverly delivered April Fools Day joke from Google, but that “joke” was recently turned into a reality using Microsoft Kinect. In the video below, Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT) researcher Evan Suma demos how he actually uses the motion gestures mentioned in Google’s original video to actually control Gmail.

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Apple wins: Judge reverses $625.5 million patent judgement previously awarded to Mirror Worlds

4. April 2011

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A federal judge today reversed a $625.5 million judgement against Apple in a patent infringement lawsuit pertaining to Apple’s Cover Flow feature. The lawsuit was filed by Mirror Worlds, a company founded by Yale professor Dave Gelertner. “Mirror Worlds may have painted an appealing picture for the jury, but it failed to lay a solid […]

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Online shipping times for the iPad 2 improve to 2-3 weeks

4. April 2011

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Estimated shipping times for the iPad 2 from Apple’s US online store have thankfully been reduced down to two to three weeks. Shortly after the iPad 2 first launched, estimated shipping times were 4-5 weeks and only recently improved to 3-4 weeks on March 24. While 2-4 weeks may still leave some prospective iPad owners […]

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“Signature Capture” feature in OS X Lion is a godsend

4. April 2011

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One of the cooler upcoming features in OS X Lion is called “Signature Capture.” Signature Capture lets users hold up a piece of paper with their signature to a Mac’s iSight camera and have it subsequently placed onto a PDF or Preview document in a specified location. The feature is a god-send for anyone who […]

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The Apple fanboy can laugh at him/herself

4. April 2011

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For as much flack as Apple fans, or even fanboys, get on a routine basis from folks accusing them of praying at the altar that is Jobs, there’s no denying that most Apple aficionados don’t take themselves too seriously and are more than capable of laughing at themselves when their sometimes irrational love of Apple […]

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One dead, two arrested in failed robbery attempt at Apple Store in Chula Vista, California

4. April 2011

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Earlier this morning, an attempted Apple Store robbery at the Otay Ranch Towne Center in Chula Vista, California turned deadly after three thieves smashed open the outside windows of an Apple Store and quickly tried to grab as much hardware as they could. Following the burglary attempt, an Apple security guard engaged in a shootout with the criminals as […]

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MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman says iOS users are more likely to purchase content than Android owners

4. April 2011

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Android may have surpassed both Apple and RIM in smartphone marketshare, but app monetization on the Android platform is still not as easy as it is for Apple’s lineup of iOS devices. Part of the problem, of course, is Android fragmentation. With a slew of Android handsets out in the marketplace, developers have to account […]

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IDC predicts Windows Phone 7 marketshare will surpass iOS marketshare by 2015

4. April 2011

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Microsoft was late to the smartphone party, and their Windows Phone 7 offering has seen some less than stellar success, even in the context of its late entrance into an already mature market. Last week, the research firm IDC issued a report covering worldwide smartphone marketshare data for 2011. The report found that in 2011, Android’s […]

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Onion iPad app now available as free download

4. April 2011

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The Onion touts itself as “America’s finest news source” and we’d have to agree, tongue in cheek of course. We’ve been Onion fans for years and everybody’s favorite jokesters recently released a dedicated Onion app for the iPad, on April Fools Day no less.

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