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Apple Unveils Next-Generation iPhone OS4 Includes Multitasking

Source: All About Jazz
April 8, 2010

CUPERTINO, California Apple unveiled details of its next-generation iPhone operating system Thursday in a press event at the companys headquarters here. The new operating system, iPhone OS 4, will be released to developers this week and to consumers this summer. It will give developers access to calendar, photo library, still image and video data, and includes features aimed at helping apps run faster. As expected, the new OS will support multitasking of apps. We werent the first to this party ...

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Artists Lawsuit Demands Piece of Google Books Pie

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2010

Google's legal battle to create a digital library of the worlds books hit another snag Wednesday when photographers and illustrators filed suit claiming the Mountain View, California, search giant was unlawfully scanning and posting their works online without permission or payment. The suit brought by the American Society of Media Photographers and others claims Google should compensate them because the company is violating their copyrights (.pdf). Photographers and illustrators largely have been shut out from participating in a pending $125 ...

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Apple iPad Gets iWork Pages App, Word Processor Replication Released

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2010

The number one selling iPad App the Apple iWorks Pages.

Irrespective of what is cooking between Apple and Microsoft, we are glad to announce that the Microsoft Word proxy for the Apple iPad, the iWork Pages application has finally arrived. It is unclear why Microsoft isnt giving MS Office for the iPad app. a thought but, amidst these confusions, a Word Processor replica has arrived and it does look very Word like.

The Mac users seem to be able to ...

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Musicians for Music 2.0 Hopes to Fund Music Tech Startups

Source: HypeBot
April 7, 2010

I first learned about the Musicians For Music 2.0 proposed venture fund on Duncan Freeman's IndieMusicTech blog. As the founder of music analytics firm Band Metrics, Duncan is no stranger to the rigors of ongoing fundraising.

Musicians For Music 2.0 hope to fund music discovery web sites and technologies with the help of already successful musicians. After all, who knows better than musicians how disruptive and yet empowering the shifts in the music business have been. Founder Charles ...

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Find Out What Your Web Site Looks Like on an iPad

Source: HypeBot
April 6, 2010

iPad Peek

You may be sick of reading about the iPad, but it's important that you think about what your web site looks like on the popular new device. iPad Peek is a simple tool that helps you do just that.

The iPad does not support Flash, so to really know what your site looks like you'll need to disable it in your browser. (instructions after the jump). But even if you don't use flash be sure to click on ...

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Hackers Have Already Jailbroken the iPad

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2010

The iPad has only been on sale for less than three days, and already hackers have jailbroken it to get around Apple's restrictions. MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team committed to hacking the iPhone OS, has jailbroken the iPad after just a day of tinkering. The hack gave him root access to the iPad and allowed him to install non-approved applications and to run apps simultaneously. It uses the same exploit employed to jailbreak the current OS 3.1.3 ...

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Where the iPad's Early Adopters Live

Source: Michael Ricci
April 6, 2010

Now that we've finally embarked on a future of tablet computing (didn't we do that ten years ago?) with the iPad, we immediately got to wondering: What does iPad adoption look like across the country? Luckily, online ad network Chitika has offered some numbers on what its seeing for iPads broken down over time and state by state.

Chitika took a look at where and when it was seeing hits from iPads and built a real-time page to show you ...

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App Brings Centuries of Great Art to the iPad

Source: Michael Ricci
April 6, 2010

The iPad makes a perfect coffee table book and photo browser but a new application called Art Authority sends the touchscreen interface back through centuries of humanity's finest imagery. Built by 1980's Apple engineer Alan Oppenheimer, Art Authority is a beautiful way to get some art education and ponder the human condition while flipping through more than 40,000 historic works of art on your iPad. Oppenheimer calls the app a public domain and web art browser. It makes good use ...

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