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// 12 February 2021
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With the recent price drop on iPad 2 at some of the big retailers such as Walmart and Target, some people are wondering if there is a new Apple announcement pending. Does this mean that the stores know something we don’t and are they trying to clear out their old stock to make way for…

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// 12 February 2021
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Looks like the big box retailers like Target and Walmart and holding another head to head battle and once again it is over iPads. Both retailers are trying to put a push on select Apple sales by offering deals on select products Target currently offers a $50 gift card with the purchase of a 16GB…

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// 12 February 2021
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To celebrate the birthday of Macintosh Apple decided to skip the pricey over produced Superbowl ads and invest in themselves. They produced a mini movie instead that is composed entirely of footage shot from their own products. Mac officially turned 30 on January 24th, and on that day representatives from Apple when out in 10…

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// 12 February 2021
Apple swappable camera lens iPhone patent diagram

Apple’s always one for filing patents that it may never use, but sometimes, a patent is too important to pass up. This week, Apple filed a camera lens iPhone patent that would allow the iPhone to have swappable lenses. The benefit of this swappable camera lens iPhone patent is obvious: the swappable lenses would make…

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// 12 February 2021
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It looks like there is hope on the horizon for fans of the Apple TV. The Apple store went down earlier this week for several hours which prompted people to wonder what was going on. Was the store hacked or was it simply a system update? Well it appears that that it was an update,…

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// 12 February 2021
best buy discount

If you have been that iPad air, then now is the time to get it because Best Buy has them on sale. For Friday and Saturday ONLY Best Buy is offering $50 off all iPad Air models and offering $30 discounts on first-generation iPad minis. Better hurry if you want to get the iPad Air…

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// 12 February 2021
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Earlier in the month it was reported that the NSA has spyware specifically designed to target iPhones. Apple CEO Tim Cook is finally coming out about it, sort of. Apple continues to claim that they had no former knowledge of the program known as DROOUTJEEP, which supposedly gives complete access to everything, on the iPhone,…

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// 12 February 2021
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Parents Rejoice, you get money back on your unauthorized kids app purchases. The FTC has ordered Apple to refund at least $32.5 million to customers whose children made in-app purchases without their consent. As part of the settlement agreement Apple will also change it’s billing methods to ensure that all purchases have expressly informed consent…

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// 12 February 2021
50GB Box Cloud Storage Promotion

There’s Copy with its 20GB of free cloud storage, Google with its unlimited Google + photo storage and 15GB of Google Drive storage, not to mention Dropbox with its special promotions where you can win up to 50GB of free cloud storage (plus extra) over time. Google even offers 25GB of free cloud storage depending…

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// 12 February 2021
ipad air

I am not a football fan, and now that the Bears are out of the running even my husband doesn’t watch football, so it appears that I missed something yesterday. During the game Apple aired a new iPad ad. It begins with some some absolutely stunning scenery shots, then the shots become of people in…

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// 12 February 2021
Apple Store

Last month Apple introduced iBeacon into all off their stores. This is a unit that tracks your location in the store and feeds information into your mobile device, based upon what you are near. It looks like this month they are being introduced into several grocery stores. The advertiser, InMarket, activated iBeacon sensors in Giant…

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