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25,000 Apple iPad pre-orders per hour?

matrix — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:01:44 +0000

“Judging from the order numbers, pre-sales are coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune.

“The folks who hang out at Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity Board are too impatient to wait for Appl to announce sales figures; they much prefer to work them out on their own — in real time,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.

“Entering the order numbers associated with their own purchases on a Google spreadsheet, they think they’ve cracked the code. As of 11:05 a.m. ET — two and a half hours after Apple’s online store began taking pre-orders — the group had received 15 confirmations with order numbers as high as 74,000 (the numbers don’t necessarily start at 0),” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “‘51,000 orders in two hours,’ announced Victor Castroll shortly after noon. He’s an analyst with Valcent Financial Group and an AAPL Sanity member.”

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Apple’s iPad as a business tool

matrix — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:59:22 +0000

“The Apple iPad has been available for pre-order for more than 24 hours now. Initial demand seems promising, although not everyone has embraced the concept of dedicating $500 or more to be an early adopter of a device that nobody really has all the details on just yet,” Tony Bradley writes for PCWorld.

“Not to sound like a broken record, but the iPad is a consumer device. Actually, as far as I am concerned anything with an Apple logo is–by default–intended primarily for a consumer audience,” Bradley writes. “Despite the passionate zeal of the Apple faithful, you won’t see any Fortune 500 companies lining up to dump Windows-based PC’s for Macs, or BlackBerry smart phones for iPhones any time soon.”

Bradley continues, “That said, the iPad–and other Apple devices–can be more than functional business tools as well. The following is a selection of apps that business professionals can use to transform the media-consuming toy into a productive business tool:”

• Salesforce Mobile
• Meebo
• Freshbooks

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

10 best iPhone apps for iPad

matrix — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:56:12 +0000

“iPad apps are understandably in their infancy, but with the Apple iPad SDK already in developers’ hands they’ll soon be out in full force,” Michael Sawh reports for T3. “To fill the void, Apple has made the popular move of making the majority of the 140,000 iPhone apps from the App Store available to use on the iPad.”

Sawh reports, “We’ve picked out the iPhone apps that’ll make the most of their new tablet surroundings, selecting our favourites to make the smooth transition from iPhone to iPad.”

1. Skype
2. Photoshop
3. Time Crisis Strike
4. Sky Mobile TV (UK App Store, not available in US)
5. Asphalt 5
6. Gun Smoke
7. The Guardian
8. Tweetdeck
9. Playboy
10. iPlayerlist

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Apple: iPad pre-orders start Friday, March 12 at 8:30am EST

matrix — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:14:03 +0000

Apple iPad will pre-orders begin in the U.S. on Friday, March 12 at 5:30am PST / 8:30am EST at Apple Store online here.

Apple releases Safari 4.0.5 for Mac and Windows

matrix — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:11:37 +0000

Apple today released Safari 4.0.5 which is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:

• Performance improvements for Top Sites
• Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
• Stability improvements for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics
• Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers

Safari 4.0.5 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer.

More info and download links (30.52 MB (Snow Leopard), 38.59 MB (Leopard), 26.78 MB (Tiger), 30.18 MB (Windows)) here.

RUMOR: Apple to release Mac Pro ‘hexacore’ Xeon Core i7-980x on Tuesday, March 16

matrix — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:09:31 +0000

“I’m getting tips in from sources who claim that Apple is set to revamp its high-end Mac Pro line, adding a ‘hexacore’ Core i7-980x model to the line up,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports for ZDNet.

“All information points to this happening next Tuesday, March 16th,” Kingsley-Hughes reports.

“A ‘hexacore’ system would represent a significant upgrade for the Mac Pro line,” Kingsley-Hughes reports.

Full article here.

iPad Available in US on April 3

matrix — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:34 +0000

Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. Beginning a week from today, March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store.

Apple World’s Most Admired Company

matrix — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:32 +0000

For the third year in a row Apple has been named the World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine — this year by the widest margin ever. What makes Apple so admired? Fortune explains: “Product, product, product. This is the company that has changed the way we do everything from consume music to design products to engage with the world around us.” Apple also ranked #1 in Innovation among all companies.

10 Billionth Download for iTunes

matrix — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:30 +0000

The New York Times caught up with 10 billion song download winner Louie Sulcer and asked him about his prize, a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Says the 71-year-old Sulcer,”I don’t think I’ll have to worry about buying birthday and Christmas presents anytime soon.”

iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold

matrix — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:27 +0000

Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store, the world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store.