The NYT reported today that Alphonso Labs, the company that makes the Pulse News App, has raised $800,000 in venture capital funding and they are changing their business model from a paid app to a free app. The company is attempting to attract more users and eventually more partnerships with publishers and advertisers. The Pulse…
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Apple’s home page states that there will be a exciting announcement from iTunes tomorrow. They list the local times that the announcement will be made in California, New York, London and Tokyo. The mention of iTunes, hints that the product could be related to the streaming of content. Apple has been rumored for months to…
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Filmon.com offers a great service that let’s users stream live TV from major networks such as, ABC, NBC and CBS. The channels are being broadcast out of Los Angeles in addition to several other channels like Bloomberg, BBC News, etc. First, I will tell you that I recommend this on all iOS devices and for…
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Apple announced a few weeks ago at the “Back to Mac” event that there will be a new Mac App Store, bringing some things from the iPad and iPhone, back to the Mac. Apple started accepting submissions from developers a few days ago and the store is scheduled to open for users on January 28,…
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Apple has been notifying top music labels and other business partners in the music industry that they are extending the length of song previews in iTunes from 30 seconds to 90 seconds. Most people were expecting the length to increase to one minute but 90 seconds is even better. The longer song samples should make…
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The Skyfire app that converts flash videos into HTML5 is now available at the App Store for $2.99. Currently, only the iPhone version is available but the developer is planning on releasing a iPad version. The Skyfire iPhone app will work on the iPad but users will need to use the double pixel method, which…
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Apple has approved a new app that will allow iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users to view flash videos on their devices. A app called Skyfire will soon bring flash video content to iOS devices. The app is a web browser built on top of Safari that transcodes flash videos to HTML5 on the fly….
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Here is a video of Steve Jobs explaining why tablet manufactures will have a hard time competing against the iPad. There are several companies wanting to get their piece of the tablet market. One of the toughest hurdles is competing against Apple’s App Store. There are now over 35000 apps designed for the iPad, with…
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Victoria’s Secret now has a app designed for the iPad. The app is loaded with sexy photos, catalogues, videos, TV commercials and users can do their VS shopping from the app. Flip through catalogues and photos effortlessly on your iPad! Simply swipe the screen to flip from page to page. There’s alot of behind-the-scenes photos…
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Apple has released the results for this quarter and there was 4.19 million iPads sold this quarter. Combine that with 3.27 million iPads from last quarter and there has been 7.46 million iPads sold to date. Of course, the fourth quarter is always the strongest for consumer products, iPad sales should be strong this holiday…
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Verizon Wireless announced Thursday that it will begin selling Apple’s iPad at over 2000 retail stores on Oct. 28. Verizon stores will be selling Wi-Fi models that can be bundled with Verizon’s MiFi mobile hotspot modem. They will not be carrying 3G models that run on the Verizon network. Instead, they will offer three bundles,…
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Walmart stores are already displaying iPads and its expected that as many as 1000 Walmart stores will have it by month end. Another 800 stores should be added by November. Selling iPads at the nations largest retailer will only increase the pace of iPads sales across the US. iPads are now bring sold at Best Buy,…
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