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Apple stores to open early with iPads in stock

March 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Apple, hardware news

Unwired View and others are reporting that Apple stores will be opening an hour early today. Some stores have confirmed this, and some have even admitted to having gotten more iPad 2 in stock last night. This could be good news, considering that the iPad 2 sold out within minutes of its launch last Friday. [...]

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Walmart now selling fake iPads?

February 14th, 2011 · 4 Comments · opinion

I came across this clip from a local TV station yesterday, and I held it because I wanted to think about it.The story behind the video is that this guy was sold an iPad that had previously been returned. Only, instead of returning a real iPad, someone returned a dummy. The problem is that no [...]

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Apple to sell iPads in China

September 13th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Apple® today announced that the Wi-Fi models of its magical iPad™ will be available to customers in China from Apple Retail Stores, and select Apple Authorized Resellers, on Friday, September 17 starting at 10:00 a.m…. Pricing & Availability iPad Wi-Fi models in China will be available for a suggested retail price [...]

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iPads coming to a private school in Scotland

August 18th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

The computer teacher for a private school in Scotland has been blogging about his experience  in getting iPads into the classroom. Since this is an ongoing series of posts I think it’s worth adding to an RSS Reader. He’s faced some interesting problems. Logistics, for example. Each Ipad has to be authorized to an iTunes [...]

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Apple sells 2m iPads

May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, hardware news

From the press release: Apple® today announced that iPad(TM) sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and [...]

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Apple sells 1m iPads

May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Apple

28 Days. Wow. It took Apple just 4 weeks to  sell 1 million iPads. Users have also downloaded over 12 million apps and over 1.5 million from iBookstore. “One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Damn. [...]

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Apple sold 300k iPads on Saturday

April 5th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

At least, that’s what Apple announced in a press release today: Apple® today announced that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3. These sales included deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores. Apple also announced that iPad users downloaded [...]

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Evernote iPad App released, Read it Later App coming soon, Gmail

April 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, ebookstore news, software news

From the Evernote blog: Two months ago, we sat glued to our browsers as details of the iPad started streaming out of Apple’s launch event. It didn’t take us very long to formulate our official strategy for the new device: we were going to support the hell out of it, and we had 60 days [...]

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