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Apple Bank Billions During Q3

Last night, Apple hosted a conference call to disclose their Q3 figures, from sales to revenue to profit.  Now, if the thought that this wouldn’t be a good three months for the company entered your head, then you haven’t been paying attention, as it includes a stack of iPad sales and the first set of [...]

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Make Your iPhone 4 All Better with an Antenn-aid!

The humble sticky plaster was often all that was needed to make a grazed knee feel a thousand times better when we were five, so perhaps the iPhone 4 needs something similar to cure its woes.  Hidden in the wonderful world of Etsy is exactly that, a Band-aid for your iPhone 4 – the Antenn-aid! Available [...]

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Splash Duel HD iPad App Review – Strikes Like a Thunderball!

Most gamers will have their own favorite Breakout clone, be it Arkanoid or even Brick Breaker on the BlackBerry.  For me though, it will always be Batty, a bat-and-ball game on the ZX Spectrum in the late 80s, and the reason for this is simple; the co-operative two-player mode was enormous fun.  iPad brick destroyer [...]

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No, Apple Won’t Charge for iPad iOS 4

We weren’t totally convinced and suggested that pinches of salt were needed at the time, and now thanks to a commenter on our original post plus an article over at The Next Web, iPad owners should be able to sleep happy in the knowledge that Apple won’t be holding their hand out when it comes [...]

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Will Apple Charge for iOS 4 on the iPad?

This seems to be the rumor circulating following a report by stuff.tv, who quote an ‘anonymous source’ as saying that Apple will ‘definitely’ be charging iPad users who want to upgrade from OS 3.2.1 to iOS 4 when it’s finally released later this year. This is as an odd move, as it follows their decision to [...]

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International iPad Launch Continues with Nine More Countries Added

If you’ve been lusting after an iPad and don’t live in one of the lucky few countries where they’re sold, then perhaps your luck will be in and you’ll be in the latest set!  Apple’s latest press release states that the following nine new countries will see the iPad on sale from this Friday, the [...]

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myExpenses iPhone App Review – Casual Calculation

Using a budget calculator is probably a regular entry on New Year’s resolution lists, but if you’re anything like me, such a well-intentioned promise goes right out the window the minute you hit the sales.  Besides, updating a program like this on a desktop machine takes too much time/may intrude on those precious moments logging [...]

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Apple Press Conference and Antenna Reference Guide Online

Just in case you haven’t heard enough about the iPhone 4’s antenna, reception, death grip or the latest buzzword, ‘attenuation’, you can now head over to Apple.com and relive all those great Friday press conference moments again and again. The Press Conference. Watch 15 minutes become 30 as Steve Jobs takes to the stage to let us [...]

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Where Apple Went Wrong with Death Grip Mania, and Why Their Response to it is Correct

Following Apple’s press conference today, we now know that iPhone 4 users suffering with reception issues will be able to apply for a free case or get a refund by taking the phone back to the network. Steve Jobs’ presentation was interesting and provided a lot of data with the express intention of playing down the [...]

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Apple Offers Free Case or Refunds to iPhone 4 Owners

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced today that iPhone 4 owners will be given a free bumper or case to alleviate the phone’s widely publicized antenna problem. Customers who already bought a bumper or case from Apple will be refunded. The offer will expire on September 30, at which point, according to Jobs, “Maybe people will be [...]

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