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Help Us Put Together A Worldwide iPad 3G / LTE Coverage Map!

When you've finished filling in our 3G/LTE survey, your entry should look like this.Over the course of the day, hundreds of thousands of people in America and Canada will receive their very first LTE device: the new iPad WI-FI + 4G. The big unknown,...

Tim Cook: The New iPad Set A “Record” Weekend For Us

apple_ipad_launch_westfield_queueApple wasn’t willing to go on record with the new iPad’s initial launch figures just yet, but when quizzed about it during the Q&A session of today’s announcement of an official dividend and stock repurchase plan, Tim Cook did let slip a bit about...

Apple Announces $45 Billion Shareholder Dividend & Stock Repurchase Plan

Apple_Store_5th_AveThe conference call announced for 9 a.m. this morning hasn’t even happened yet, and Apple’s already announced what they are doing with the cash: initiating a $10 billion share repurchase plan, as well as issue dividends and make strategic investments. All told, they expect...

The New Third-Generation iPad [Review]

DSC_0006When Apple first announced the new third-generation iPad, there were people — and, I suppose, still are people — who were disappointed. Why they were disappointed is inexplicable; what they envisioned is hard to imagine. The flying car of tablets, one supposes: they called...

This American Life Retracts Foxconn Episode, Says It Was “Partially Fabricated”

Mike Daisey performing "The Agony & Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs"This American Life‘s January episode “Mr. Daisey Goes To The Apple Factory” was the show’s most popular episode in history, racking up over one million downloads and setting off a chain reaction of reports that...

The New iPad Has Already Been Jailbroken!

539354729In what may just be the speediest jailbreak ever, Dev Team uberlord MuscleNerd has confirmed that he has already jailbroken the iPad 2 and Apple A5X SoC. On his Twitter stream, MuscleNerd just wrote: jailbroken iPad3: http://twitpic.com/8x48rt http://twitpic.com/8x48xg (Just a first step, still lots...

Instapaper Won’t Support The New iPad’s Retina Display… For Now

Instapaper-iPad-Main-LandscapeThe new iPad’s Retina Display is perfect for reading, so some of the most highly-sought after app updates are going to be the ones that make the best iPad e-reading apps compatible with the doubled resolution. And, in fact, many such apps, like Kindle,...

Confirmed: The New iPad’s Retina Display Is Made By Samsung

A lot of the new iPad's innards are made by Apple's perpetual frenemy, Samsung.As we mentioned earlier, those Dr. Jests of the DIY repair movement, iFixIt, have gotten themselves one of the very first new iPads and are already busy hacking away at it....

Kindle 3.0 Gets Updated For The New iPad’s Retina Display

Image courtesy of Macstories.netBy all accounts, text-heavy apps really shine on the new iPad’s Retina Display, so I’m glad to see that Amazon have already updated my favorite iOS e-reading app to work at native 2048×1536 resolution. And that’s not all. Amazon has also...

iFixIt Opens Up The New iPad [Teardown]

Aren't those suction cups cute?In their normal fashion as dissectors and vivisectionists of the gadget world, the fine ladies and gents over at iFixIt — who flew all the way to Australia to get a literal crack at the new iPad early — have...

Apple Is Now Worth More Than The Entire U.S. Retail Sector [Chart]

This chart really speaks for itself.Add this to your list of things Apple is worth more than. As the Zero Hedge blog notes, “A company whose value is dependent on the continued success of two key products, now has a larger market capitalization (at...

Blizzard Announces Diablo III Release Date For Mac & PC

DiabloIII-30Oh Lord, after a dozen years, it’s finally come: Blizzard Entertainment has finally slapped a release date on their much-anticipated horror and fantasy themed hack-and-slash RPG, Diablo III. And that magic date? May 15th. According to a press release, “Starting that day, gamers with...