Motorola Mobility recently presented its upcoming Xoom tablet’s full Super Bowl ad which is full of references to Apple Inc., the dominant player in today’s tablet market.
Before the Super Bowl, the company released an ad teaser, which quickly went viral, titled ‘Goodbye 1984’. The teaser was also a broadside to the iPad-maker’s classic ad titled ‘1984’.

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The ‘1984’ ad played in that year’s Super Bowl harked Apple Inc.’s release of …

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Future generations of Apple Inc.’s iconic iPad tablet may have built-in stands according to a report by Patently Apple.
The news comes after the Cupertino, California-based company filed for a patent detailing a stowable stand which folds into the iPad.
The patent described by Patently Apple shows a dual-hinged stand for the iPad which can support it either on landscape mode or on portrait mode.
The site wrote: “Furthermore, the landscape mode could …

Various reports note that a new video called ‘Goodbye 1984’ for Motorola Mobility’s upcoming Xoom tablet is a broadside to Apple’s famous ‘1984’ ad.
Motorola’s Xoom is one of the many new challengers to Apple’s market-defining iPad.

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Goodbye 1984 was created by Motorola PR agency Weber Shandwick to hype a 60-second video created by New York ad agency Anomaly which will be aired at this year’s Super Bowl, reports Mashable.
The ad begins …

Money.co.uk, the personal finance and investment web site receiving rave reviews by its users in the U.K. has completed an extensive review of iPad financial applications and named what it considers the top ten essential Money apps for the iPad.

These top ten applications, and another quarter million iPad apps can be downloaded from the Apple App store on iTunes or directly from your iPad.
#1) PocketMoney, which has received all positive reviews on the app store, is a personal financial …

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. will launch its electronic newspaper for Apple Inc.’s iPad on Feb 2. at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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The launch of the iPad-only version of News Corp.’s The Daily was previously slated for Jan 19 but was later delayed to give Apple time to enhance a subscription scheme for the iPad exclusive newspaper.
Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs were supposed to share the stage at the launch which was …

The iOS 4.3 beta recently seeded to developers is apparently a minefield of clues about Apple Inc.’s devices as reports say that an image included in the beta release indicates that the iPad 2 will be launched on Feb. 9.

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According to iPad.net, the snapshot of iPad’s home screen may just confirm previous rumors that the iPad 2 will be released on the said date.
The calendar icon on the image displays Wednesday, 9, which iPad.net says could be February the 9th …

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A Chinese regulatory body has approved an Apple Inc. 3G device on Dec. 29, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The report says that the approval, currently posted on the website of China’s State Radio Regulatory Center might be a sign that the market-defining iPad will be released in the country soon.
According to Apple’s most recent conference call, growth of its business in China has been staggering. Apple officials reported that the company’s …

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Based on statistics from the Apple Inc. conference call on Tuesday, the company has again topped the mobile OS category with its iOS as data show that it has sold 366 thousand iOS devices daily during the fiscal first year.
According to a quick calculation done by 9to5Mac, data from the earnings report show that 366,666 iOS devices was sold by Apple daily. The figure includes iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.
The report read:
“From today’s earnings call:
16.24 …

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The next-generation Apple iPad will feature a screen with four times the pixels of the current iPad, according to reports.
The revelation came after analysts found clues on an iBook app about the iPad 2’s screen resolution.
According to reports, the iPad 2 will have a screen resolution of 2048×1536.
However, the iPad 2 falls short of having a “Retina Display”, as it will have 260 pixels per inch (ppi) if it will sport a screen a 9.7 inch display with a …

Apple Inc. will be giving a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to the person who downloads the ten billionth app from the Apple App Store.

Apple App Store Ten Billionth App Download Countdown

A large counter has been posted by Apple on its App Store site indicating that the ten billionth download of an app is nearing.
“The App Store is about to hit ten billion downloads,” read the live counter. “Download the ten billionth app and you could win a US $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.”
However, Don …