Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Apple’s iBooks 2 for iPad, A New Way to Buy and Read Books

iBooks 2 for iPad
Apple is launching iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much more. Apple is also setting up a textbook section its iTunes store.

iBooks 2 will be able to display books with videos and other interactive features for elementary and high school students, the company announced Thursday at an event at an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. It’s not clear how Apple plans to get it front of students, however, since textbooks are subject to lengthy approval processes by states. Also, few students have iPads, which start at $499.

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How Apple TV Could Succeed in 2012

Apple iTV

This year’s CES should bring out the latest HDTV sets from all the big names including Samsung, Sony, LG, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba and more. We expect to see more connected TVs with more iPads and other tablets controlling them. We may see is added TV “smarts” either built into the TV itself or provided in a companion device like a tablet. TVs with more smarts will help but with rumors of an Apple TV coming in 2012, we wonder if any of the major TV brands will be able to compete with Apple in the battle for the living room.

Apple, Microsoft and Google Could be Next Big Brands in HDTV

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Fail-Safe Christmas Gift Ideas for The Bosses: What To Give Your Boss This Holiday Season?

Fail-Safe Holiday Gift Ideas for The Bosses

Hey folks! Do you have your boss as your exchange gifts partner for the holidays this year? Are you clueless about what to give him or her? Well, help is here. Whether you have a bossy boss, or a nosy one or the one like Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”, we have just the right gift ideas for them.

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Google Music Goes Live in US, Challenge to Apple’s iTunes

Music Beta by Google

Google introduced Google Music to the public at its Android event in Los Angeles Wednesday. It launches as a combination of music services and a Music Store. Google Music is about discovering, purchasing, sharing and enjoying music in new, innovative and personalized ways.

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10 Most Influential People in Mobile Telecommunications

Andy Rubin

The wireless explosion of the past decade has given rise to numerous technologies, devices and corporations, all of which have contributed to the dramatic changes in the way we live, work and play.

Behind the scenes are countless more individuals whose decisions, research and creativity each day make it all work for us. Today we look at those individuals making the biggest splash in mobile today.

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