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Books Or iBooks?

Filed Under: Computers/The Web by Wayne Hall — Leave a comment
January 19, 2012

Since I work for a newspaper, I’m always interested in when technology replaces something non-technical.

Here’s the story of textbooks likely being replaced by electronic devices like the iBooks, iPad and Kindle. It’s from the International Business Times website:

>>Apple announced it would update its iBooks platform to include textbook capabilities. It also added a new platform called iBooks Author, which lets anyone easily create and publish their own e-books. Apple’s late co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs had hoped to bring relief to the higher education masses in the late 80s and early 90s, but 20 years later, Jobs’s legacy lives on in Apple, which hopes to make yet another dent in the education industry.

In NYC on Thursday, Apple revolutionized the education industry with its new iBooks 2 app for marking up digital textbooks, its new iBooks Author app for quick and easy e-book publishing, and the iTunes U platform for teachers to better communicate and share materials with students.

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Will We See The New iPods September 1?

Filed Under: Computers/The Web, iPod, iPhone, iPad, i by Wayne Hall — Leave a comment
August 26, 2010

These days, it seems like Steve Jobs says to jump, and we all ask, “How high?”

Now that the iPad is doing brisk business, it is time to revamp to beloved iPod. Here’s a story about that:

>>Apple likely to show off new iPods Sept 1

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Apple Inc. is expected to show off a snazzier line of iPods on September 1, as speculation mounts the consumer electronics giant may also unveil plans to reinvigorate its long-neglected TV project.

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Now, A New iPhone To Buy!

Filed Under: Computers/The Web, iPod, iPhone, iPad, i by Wayne Hall — Leave a comment
June 8, 2010

It’s not bad enough that Apple recently put out the iPad for those of us into gadgets and gadgetry to buy … now they will soon have the iPhone 4G available! How much can a techno-guy afford, anyway?

Here’s the debut as reported on by The Wall Street Journal:

>>Steve Jobs unveiled a new iPhone Monday in a presentation that was long on new features but short on surprise, as the Apple Inc. chief faces increasing competition in smartphones, particularly from devices based on Google Inc.’s Android software.

While Mr. Jobs described the iPhone 4 as “the biggest leap since the original iPhone,” he offered few bombshells after Gawker Media LLC’s technology blog Gizmodo shared details about the device in April after getting hold of a prototype.

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The iPad: It’s Not ‘If,’ But ‘When’ We’ll Buy It

Filed Under: Computers/The Web, iPod, iPhone, iPad, i by Wayne Hall — Leave a comment
May 16, 2010

These days, when I talk with my fellow techno-geeks, the discussion centers around the recently released iPad portable computer. I’ve been intrigued to notice that our conversations follow a specific track–it isn’t IF we’ll buy it. Instead, it is WHEN we’ll each get ours.

For instance, one co-worker/friend who is retiring and moving to a warmer climate said she’s getting the iPad because she needs a new computer, and the iPad is very thin, light and portable. She also liked the thought that she would be the first person in the group to get the new “toy.” That means a lot to her, and impresses the rest of us, who prefer to wait.

I have some concerns about buying the iPad now besides the fact that I really can’t afford it. First, it doesn’t use WiFi and second, there is no camera in the machine … yet. As I did with the iPod and iPhone, I’ll wait maybe a year before I think about buying it. By then, they should have all the kinks worked out. But the iPad is on my mind so much that I posted a video about it in one of my first blog entries.

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