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Facebook, Maps, Siri, Safari all get the spotlight in Apple’s iOS6 update

At the Apple World Wide Developers conference today, Apple made the official, and long rumored statement that Facebook will be fully integrated into Apple iOS6. So for all the iPhone and iPad users out there, this should be a welcomed changed.

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Good or Bad: The Clambook

The Clambook is a beautifully thin and lightweight extension of your mobile device that gives you the usability of a laptop. Ideally, I would say users with smart phones are the perfect market here. If you have a small phone device, and possibly use it for email, documentation and videos/movies, this could be really something of value to you.

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Say hello to my little friend, Scarface the game

Just released on iTunes for the iPhone and iPad comes one of the best movies ever made, which is now available as an app created by Fuse Powered Inc., who worked with Universal Pictures to take the iconic mobster figure Tony Montana and bring him to our mobile devices.

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Inside Apple’s Foxconn factory (video)

Foxconn is the Chinese factory that puts together all of the Apple products, such as the iPhone and iPad. It’s a pretty rare event when cameras are let into Foxconn, and in this video from Marketplace, they take us inside of Foxconn for a brief but telling view of how it is to work at Foxconn and what it looks like when an iPad is put together.

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Unboxing video of the new iPad (third gen)

If you can’t wait to get the new iPad third generation, which is available to the public on March 16; you can check out this unboxing video from Vietnamese blogger Sonlazio. He provides a first look into the new iPad and a bunch of great photos. Thankfully, since I don’t speak Vietnamese, he points a lot in the video and you can make sense of the new features such as the bigger 5 megapixel camera.

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Twitter paid $5m-$10m to acquire Posterous

After yesterday’s news about Twitter acquiring Posterous, I was curious to know how much Twitter paid for the acquisition. Through the announcement yesterday from Twitter, it was clear that they were buying up the blogging site to secure great talent, but how much were they willing to pay?

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The new iPad boasts a better camera and retina display

Those that were expecting a miracle from the new iPad (iPad third gen) may be a little disappointed, but not too badly. The new iPad event just ended a short time ago, with announcements of some nice new features for iPad lovers.

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Damn you Apple with your enticing invites, alluding to an iPad 3

Could this be it, the mythical beast that will come before us next Wednesday? The futuristic newest iteration to the iPad made so famous by the late Steve Jobs? Quite possibly so says Apple, with their invite they just sent out to the press.

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Shocker: Apple iOS drives majority of mobile traffic in the U.S.

comScore released their 2012 Mobile Future in Focus report, which is the first of an annual report that examines the mobile and connected device landscape and gives insights and projections for the following year based on this compiled information.

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Coming soon: Microsoft Office for the iPad

Ah, now it makes a bit more sense for all the hubbub yesterday when Microsoft laid the smack down on Google. It looks like Microsoft may be drumming up some publicity and trying to shine some additional light to their business solution products for good reason.

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Oh yeah, Star Wars iOS app yeah

I am channeling my inner Pauly D for my excitement here. Star Wars and Lucas Films have released their official iOS gaming app for iPhone and iPad. Although I am excited, it’s not the iOS game that I would have hoped for, but hey, it’s Star Wars.

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FBI releases 191 page file on Steve Jobs

Believe it or not, the FBI had a full 191 page file on Steve Jobs. It isn’t what you’re thinking though. According to VentureBeat, Jobs applied for an official government position as part of George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1991.

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Apple mini-stores will be in your local Sam’s club soon

When you do your bulk grocery shopping at your local Sam’s club in the near future, you may be able to step foot into a mini-Apple store according to 9to5 Mac. Sources are saying that Sam’s club, which is a subsidiary of Walmart is in talks with Apple to expand their already Apple friendly in-store sales to open them up to mini-stores within Sam’s club locations.

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For the first time, smart phone sales trump PC sales

An interesting statistic came up with the Canalys Quarter 4 - 2011 report on smart phone and PC sales. Canalys reports that for the first time, smart phone sales have overtaken PC sales.

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Apple launches iPad Textbooks along with iBooks Author publishing

At Guggenheim in NY yesterday, at the Apple Education event, Apple announced a better way for students to consume information and be educated. Apple announced the new iBooks Textbooks, offering to do away with heavy, clunky, expensive and outdated textbooks and suggesting that iPads replace them; reinventing the way students learn and how educators use tools to teach.

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