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Doctors Diagnose iPad's Usefulness
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Michael Ricci
The scenario sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie -- the doctor pulls out her touch- screen tablet computer from the drawer of instruments. She calls up the patient's chart with a few taps and proceeds to add a note to the page with her latest diagnosis. A visualization pops up, and she flips the screen over to give the patient an idea of what ails him. Doctors are presuming the iPad could make this scene a reality as soon ...
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Web Site by Stanford Experts Monitors App Security
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All About Jazz
With Apple Inc.'s iPad rolling out this weekend, developers are scrambling to create new applications -- or apps. But are they safe? That's the question a new Web site hopes to help answer. Internet security experts at Stanford University launched a site Friday that reviews how well certain Web and mobile applications protect users' privacy. Dozens of the more that 200 apps listed on WhatApp have already been reviewed by a team of lawyers, computer scientists, and privacy and ...
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Apple Sells More Than 300,000 iPads on First Day
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All About Jazz
Apple Inc. said Monday that it delivered more than 300,000 iPads on its opening day. Meeting expectations of some analysts while underscoring the challenges the company still faces marketing the device beyond early adopters. The total seemed modest given the weeks of hype about the revolutionary nature of Apple's new touch-screen tablet device. Furthermore, the figures included pre-orders that were picked up or delivered Saturday and iPads sent to retail stores such as Best Buy but not necessarily purchased. ...
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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 4 This Week
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All About Jazz
Before all the iPad buzz has even had a chance to fizzle, Apple this morning sent e- mails inviting press to a sneak preview of the next-generation iPhone operating system. The event is scheduled for Thursday, 10 a.m. PT at Apple headquarters. Apple has not officially disclosed any details about its next iPhone OS, but a few rumors suggest it will introduce enhanced multitasking. The current iPhone OS (3.0) only allows a few core apps, such as iPod and Mail, ...
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Pandora Unveils iPad App
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PC Magazine
Among the various iPad apps that are making their debut Friday is Pandora, which has optimized its popular Internet radio iPhone app for Apple's tablet. “When we started thinking about how to bring Pandora to the iPad, my thought process was, what are people really going to do with a device like this that has this big screen?" Pandora chief technology officer Tom Conrad said in a phone interview. “It felt to me like it's going to be a device ...
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Twitter: A Box Office Oracle
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Michael Ricci
Silicon Valley researchers say they can predict a film's opening- weekend take by monitoring tweets. Want to know how “Clash of the Titans" will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter. So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social media service to gauge real-time interest in movies and accurately predict how they will perform at the box office on opening weekend. Sitaram Asur and Bernardo Huberman, two social ...
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Apple's Ipad: One Small Step for Tablets, One Giant Leap for Personal Computers
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All About Jazz
On the eve of the launch of Apple's iPad, I am thinking of Ed Roberts. He never became a household name, but as the man behind the Altair computer -- a kit for lunatic tech hobbyists released in 1975 -- he was responsible for launching the microcomputer era. When nearly everyone in technology thought that computers would forever be restricted to big institutions, Roberts envisioned the machines as tools of empowerment. “If I were to give you an army of ...
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10 Apps We're Excited to Try On Ipad Launch Day
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All About Jazz
Apple fans have two time-sucking activities to look forward to this weekend: playing with the iPad for the very first time and trying out brand-new tablet apps. The first wave of iPad reviews describe a device that is simple, easy to use and visually stunning. But for our part, what we're looking forward to most is the apps. In that, we're not alone: Many developers are equally excited. “We're on the verge of a major milestone in computing," said Marco ...
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