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[Update] The live blog is over and it was wild with new features shown off of Lion, iOS 5.0 and iCloud. You can view the entire keynote on Apple’s site. We’re just a few minutes away from the opening WWDC 2011 keynote and Steve Jobs is set to show off iOS 5.0, iCloud and more.…
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is kicking off today, where they’ll be unveiling the next version of the iPhone and iPad’s operating system. The features of iOS 5 haven’t been disclosed, but a music streaming and storage service called iCloud seems like a foregone conclusion, and there has been an awful lot of talk about deep,…
Nortel, once a leader in telecommunications, went bust in 2009 and since then they’ve been selling off pieces of their vast empire to the highest bidder. One of their key assets, some 6,000 patents in the areas of wireless video, WiFi, internet search, social networking, and WiFi, are currently up for grabs. Google has placed…
In an effort to remove paperwork and at the same time look cooler in the eyes of its customers, Alaska Airlines is issuing iPads to its pilots. The lightweight tablet will replace up to 25 pounds of paper flight manuals that pilots are required to carry when they fly. The process of distributing Apple’s tablet…
Apple’s WWDC event is next week, and we’re expecting to see tons of big things coming out of Cupertino. What sorts of things, you ask? Well, for starters we’re seeing a big push into the cloud, or Internet-based storage and services. Apple will be calling its services iCloud – pretty original, right? We’re hearing things…
With Apple’s consistently impressive performance quarter after quarter, it’s hard to imagine why its executives and Goldman Sachs analysts wouldn’t be so bullish about the future. The iPhone has consistently sold very well, and the iPad and iPad 2 have surpassed even the most cynical of expectations. Speaking of outrageously successful iPad sales – look…
At one point or another, we’ve all said that we’d give an arm and a leg for a new toy or perhaps a vacation. But what about giving up a critical internal organ? Apparently, to one 17-year-old boy in China, an iPad 2 was totally worth one of his kidneys. Unfortunately, the kid is now…
Remember those commercials telling you that 3 out of 4 dentists recommended a certain kind of toothpaste? They were pretty convincing, right? What if you learned that 4 out of 5 doctors were planning on buying an iPad next year? Would that sway your decision to get one yourself? Aside from the curious – why…
Twitter is all set to roll out its own photo-sharing service and TechCrunch is now reporting that this will be rolled out as a baked-in sharing option of iOS 5.0, which will be shown off at next week’s WWDC conference. The Twitter photo-sharing service is aimed at giving the company more control over its ecosystem.…
We now know that Apple is set to show off iOS 5.0 and iCloud next week at WWDC and we’ll be there live reporting on what it has to show. We thought it would be fun to go over what we already know and ask you what you want from the new software and service.…