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Kids Love The Apple Store So Much They Pee On The Seats

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Don’t ever sit on the black balls at the kids table in Apple retail stores, recommends supposed former employee and Redditor Mister_Rabbit. It seems that as 370 million people visit an Apple Store each year, a few of the kids are leaving something behind when they go. Though we can’t verify if he really worked there, Mister_Rabbit writes: “Going through my old photos from when I worked in Apple retail…

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Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System?

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Illustration: Alex Washburn/Wired. Photo: Kajojak/Flickr   Matthew Stoltzfus could never get his students to see chemistry like he sees chemistry until he added an iPad to his lesson plan. Stoltzfus, a chemistry professor at Ohio State University, struggled for years to bring complex chemical equations to life on the blackboard, but always saw students’ eyes glaze over. Then he added animations and interactive media to his general chemistry curriculum. Suddenly,…

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Apple’s watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources

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As reported on The Verge. By Nilay Patel Jony Ive wants a spot on your wrist More details are emerging about Apple’s forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to a Bloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources. Bloomberg says the watch project has long been a favorite of Apple design chief Jony Ive, who reportedly ordered “boxes” of Nike sports watches for his team to study a few years ago. That’s perfectly in line with…

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Kantar Worldpanel: Android And Verizon Back On Top In U.S. Smartphone Sales, Android At Nearly 50% Of Sales

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN Kantar Worldpanel, the WPP firm that analyses how well smartphones are selling with consumers (not shipping to sales channels) across key worldwide markets, has picked the week of a major mobile show in Europe, Mobile World Congress, to shift some of the focus back to the U.S., today releasing numbers on smartphone sales for the 12 weeks to the end of January, which show that Android was the top smartphone…

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The Shift From Apple To Google Is Part Of A Much Larger Economic Development

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Joe Weisenthal By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google is the new Apple.  Well, not necessarily, but while Apple’s stock continues to grind lower, Google’s stock is on a tear. And now analysts are jumping over themselves to get more bullish on Google. Just yesterday, two separate analysts put $1,000 price targets on the stock. What gives? Well, of course people can make up all kinds of stories about the momentum of either company, and…

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Apple Patents Extremely Accurate, Localized Haptic Feedback For Multitouch Devices

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON When haptic feedback first became a buzzword of the mobile phone industry nearly half a decade ago, many imagined keyboards that would rise up out of the glass on smartphones to meet our fingertips. What we got instead were devices that faintly shook in a general sort of way whenever you tapped their software keys, but a new patent secured by Apple today (and spotted by AppleInsider) looks to improve…

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Apple Updates Retina MacBook Pro, Drops 13-inch Retina Pro, MacBook Air And SSD Upgrade Prices

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON The MacBook Pro with Retina and 13-inch MacBook Air got some mid-cycle improvements under the hood today, with a new 2.6GHz processor for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, new 2.4 and 2.7GHz processors for the 15-inch version, and 16GB of memory as a top-end spec on the larger Retina model. The MacBook’s 256GB version has a new lower price of $1399, and the 13-inch Retina now starts at $1499 and $1699…

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Apple Doesn’t Care, That’s Why It’s Winning

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Apple doesn’t care if competitors have cheaper products. It doesn’t care if its next big thing cannibalizes its last big thing. Not about buying big money-makers, and certainly not about how you think it should deal out stock. Today at Goldman Sach’s conference, Tim Cook played the defiant king of an empire too powerful to be distracted by the present or the past. All he sees is Apple’s future. The…

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Bloomberg: 100 people are working on the Apple watch

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As reported on Engadget .By Daniel Cooper Apple’s wearable computing project might not just be the fever-dream of analysts, ifBloomberg is to be believed. The news agency is claiming that Apple’s watch project is commanding considerable resources within Cupertino’s shadowy prototype labs. Two people who claim to be familiar with the company’s plans are saying that engineering chief James Foster and program manager Achim Pantfoerder are heading up a team of around 100 designers, programmers and engineers. Bloomberg goes on to say that…

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Why would Apple want to make an iWatch?

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Ziegler Signs point to wearables becoming the Next Big Thing One year ago — almost to the day — the Wall Street Journal broke the news thatApple was testing an 8-inch iPad. In July, just days after Google’s announcement of the Nexus 7, it reiterated that a “smaller” iPad was coming. Those rumors, of course, foretold the launch of the iPad mini late last year. WITH THESE REPORTS, APPLE IS SENDING A…

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