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All of the news from today's iPad announcement

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2010)

What a day it's been. The tablet is finally out. That's right, the tablet we've been waiting years for is real and will be on sale soon, only it's called the iPad, and it's pretty similar to the iPhone. Just in case you missed something today, here's everything we've learned about the magical and ...

Apple announces the iPad

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 27th, 2010)

It's finally here. At their event in San Francisco, Apple has officially announced their tablet computer, which they're calling the iPad. Fully customizable, and better than a smartphone or a laptop at browsing, reading e-books, and a "great maps application with support from Google[...]." We're ...

Apple wins two new patents including tablet proximity detector

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2010)

Expectations and excitement are at a fever pitch for the hoped-for tablet announcement, but that hasn't stopped Apple's lawyers from earning their keep. Just in the past few days, they've nailed down two more patents, one of which has to do with tablet-style technology. That's a "proximity ...

Some personal thoughts about the Apple Tablet

by Mel Martin (Jan 26th, 2010)

From every hint, from every rumor, from every direction it seems like some sort of Apple tablet is a done deal. We'll know for sure Wednesday, probably after a "one more thing" from El Jobso. If a tablet is announced, I'm trying to figure out if I will buy one. I already have a Mac Pro desktop, a ...

Will Apple buy mobile ad company Quattro Wireless? UPDATE: Yes.

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 5th, 2010)

According to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, Apple may announce the purchase of Quattro for the relative bargain price of $275 million. I say bargain because, as Kara points out, Google paid three times that for AdMob, another mobile ad company. So what? This bit of news, when taken with the ad patent ...

The Apple Store is down, prepare yourselves

by Erica Sadun (Sep 9th, 2009)

Happy Stevemas boys and girls! As we look forward to the 9-9-09 Apple Event starting later today, which we'll be liveblogging, the Apple Store has quietly gone quiet. Megan noted the early morning price cuts to the iPod line, a bit surprising considering the announcements scheduled for later in ...

Livestation iPhone app promises live TV over wifi

by Mike Schramm (Dec 4th, 2008)

We'll believe it when we see it, of course. Livestation is a service that claims to be "Slingbox without the box." Once subscribed, you can watch television streamed to your computer, via peer-to-peer, from anywhere. And now they're apparently set to announce an iPhone app that will do the same ...

Apple schedules laptop event for Oct. 14; leaked photos abound

by Robert Palmer (Oct 9th, 2008)

Our sister site Engadget received an invitation for a town-hall event in San Francisco about new Apple notebooks, featuring an image of what could be hinting at possible new aluminum enclosures for 13-inch MacBooks. tw.apple.pro purports to have images of new aluminum cases for the MacBooks. ...

One more thing: A history

by Dave Caolo (Jun 7th, 2008)

"But there is ... one more thing." Those are the words that make Mac nerds' hearts flutter. Afterall, the original iMac, Mac OS X and the switch to Intel have all followed that simple phrase. The Cult of Mac has produced a cool time line graphic depicting a history of products that have been ...

Adobe to drop GoLive, Freehand

by David Chartier (May 31st, 2006)

The Mac Observer is reporting that Adobe announced at Adobe Live that the company is giving the axe to GoLive and Freehand for CS3, due out spring of 2007. Before the Adobe-Macromedia merger, GoLive was Adobe's Dreamweaver (and a far superior product, might I add), and Freehand was Macromedia's ...

Academy Award Nominated Short Films point to movies to be the announcement of the day

by C.K. Sample, III (Feb 28th, 2006)

Here's my thinking: This morning in the iTMS, along with some Bravo shows, we received some Academy Award Nominated Short Films. Short films? So what? We already have Pixar shorts! you retort. Ah-ha! See! These are non-Pixar films in the iTMS. The first. Kevin Rose of Digg fame didn't post ...