Davis received a congratulatory phone call from Apple's Eddy Cue, the Vice President of iTunes. Davis initially believed the phone call was a prank. She replied with a curt "Thank you very much, I'm not interested" and hung up on the Apple executive.
aring she had botched her chance at a $10,000 iTunes gift card, Davis called Apple's support line to connect with the appropriate person and explain her mistake.
I think the Digitimes story probably got the resolution right, but the iPad version wrong," Mainelli told PCWorld via e-mail. "Our sources say Apple has requested that manufacturers begin work on displays with that resolution for the iPad 3."
"I don't believe anybody is ready to produce that resolution in volumes at this point. And Apple is going to require huge volumes for the iPad 2,"
Richard Doherty, director of the consulting firm Envisioneering Group, told Bloomberg that the next-generation iPad and iPhone will both include near-field communication technology
"Apple's service may be able to tap into user information already on file, including credit-card numbers, iTunes gift-card balance and bank data..."
the inclusion of an NFC chip could compete with services from Visa, MasterCard, eBay and PayPal.
that would be a great business move. with 160 of these things around and 1 for every two people born, it's viable.
"They could also receive loyalty rewards and credits for purchases, such as when referring a friend, Doherty said."
He added that Apple may "heavily" subsidize the hardware, or even give it away to retailers, to encourage rapid adoption of NFC technology and boost sales of NFC-equipped iPhones and iPads.
this is normally very slow, but with so many iOS devices about...think about how many companies have software in the iphone that never made software for anything else.
5-inch touchscreen OLED display with a resolution of 960 pixels by 544 pixels, "dual analog sticks, 3G, WiFi GPS, front and rear touchpads, motion sensors, an electronic compass, and cameras on both the front and the rear."
ARM Cortex A9 CPU
The framework will initially include an emulator for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 1 titles, eventually broadening to a "hardware-neutral" development framework for multiple devices.
As noted by AppAdvice, Apple's App Store reviewers have begun approving applications that take advantage of the third-party AirPlay video streaming capabilities present in iOS 4.3.
One example of a newly-approved AirPlay-compatible application is StreamToMe, a relatively popular universal application that allows users to stream content from Macs and PCs to iOS devices via Wi-Fi or 3G.
People close to Apple's Far Eastern partners said this week that a unnamed Japanese company has crafted a new paint material at the iPhone maker's request that allows for greater control and precision when it comes to the thickness of the paint layer being applied to the handsets.
resulted in a "huge" number of defective handsets. The percentage was said to be so high that Apple simply could not proceed with manufacturing of the white iPhone 4 until a solution was produced.
Apple is making a push into the enterprise with the iPad -- it's hiring salespeople to work with carriers
ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley has found, this has apparently scared Microsoft into action. The company has prepared a set of marketing slides for the partners who sell into enterprises, briefing them on how to counter interest in the iPad. They're supposed to familiarize themselves with the Windows 7 slates that PC makers are making today, then talk to enterprises about things like security and management, where Windows has a long-standing edge.
what about spending money on competing technologies.
The people bringing iPads to work are executives, high-level IT staff, and respected early adopters -- the people who drive technology decisions.