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Apple hinted that it broke a record for iPad sales this weekend and now the company confirmed it sold three million iPads since the tablet launched on March 16th. That’s three million iPads in a little less than four short days. To put that in perspective, the iPad 2 sold one million during its launch weekend…
AT&T announced that the new third-generation iPad exceeded all previous one-day sales and activation records this past Friday, the day it went on the market. Straight from the press release: On Friday, March 16, AT&T set a new single-day record for its iPad sales and activations, demonstrating robust demand for the new iPad on the…
Apple and Samsung are fierce competitors when it comes to the smartphone and tablet space, but their relationship, like any other modern relationship, can best be described as “complicated”. Last summer The Economist published a piece that broke down how much the individual components that make up an iPhone actually cost; they also listed who…
Last night Apple announced that they would reveal what they were planning to do with the close to $100 billion they have in the bank. Now that it’s the crack of dawn, we have a press release: “Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors, the Company plans to initiate a quarterly dividend of $2.65…
Apple announced on Sunday it will hold an early Monday morning conference call (6:00 a.m. PDT/9:00 a.m. EDT) about its almost $100 billion cash reserve. The company hinted during its last earnings conference call that it was carefully considering what it should do with its pile of cash and now it apparently has a plan it…
This American Life caused a stir on Friday when it announced that it was retracting its coverage of Mike Daisey and his “Mr Daisey goes to the Apple Factory” performance. The presentation was a short excerpt taken from Mr. Daisey’s longer show about the troubling conditions he discovered within the factories of Foxconn, an Apple…
After spending my entire morning staring out my window waiting for the FedEx deliveryman to make his trip to my home like a dog would his master, my new iPad has arrived. As soon as I received my package, I set up my HD camera and captured the glory of unpacking it and my initial…
In case you haven’t noticed, Apple’s third generation iPad came out today. Judging by the early reviews, it’s already set the benchmark for what a tablet should be. Now when Apple announced the new iPad last week they said that their A5X chip is 4x faster than NVIDIA’s Tegra 3. That’s a bold claim, and…
In what is now a tried-and-true tradition, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak waited in line overnight to get his hands on the brand new iPad and he explains his reasoning in the video below from What’s Trending. Woz has shown a penchant for waiting in line for new products, even though he could get all of…
Path, a small social network that limits the amount of friends you can have to “only” 150 people, went through a major shit storm last month. It was discovered that as soon as you install and launch their application it uploads your complete address book to Path’s servers. Why did they do this? So they…