This a car bumper that was sliced open by a flying ipad.
File under: Things that actually happened.
Just call it a hood ornament.
On Facebook, the media eats itself. Ten days ago, The Daily closed its doors. This week, Newsweek published its last print issue. Today, this ad appears to be banking on picking up old Daily customers by selling them on Newsweek’s digital edition using Facebook ads. That’s not depressing at all.
“This is why you don’t buy an iPad from Wal-Mart.” In which a group of Kentucky Wal-Mart night shift workers play up every stereotype you’ve ever had about idiotic twenty-something males who think destroying stuff is funny, people from Kentucky, and Wal-Mart employees. (None of which, by the way, may be true, but the video certainly plays into.) A spokesperson told CNET: ”We’ve seen the video of several night-shift associates destroying merchandise in the back of one of our stores in August and, as anyone can image, it made us wince. We are also embarrassed.” This doesn’t happen at Apple Stores … we think.
Sur..prise?: Apple has officially unveiled the iPad mini, though we’re not sure how many people were unaware of the device’s existence at this point. The iPad mini will ship with a 7.9-inch screen, modified A5 chip under the hood, and a starting price of $329 for the Wi-Fi only model. Pre-orders begin on Friday and the first devices will land in consumers’ hands on November 2. So, are you planning to get the smaller iPad? (Photo via The Verge) source
Currently happening: Apple’s iPad mini keynote. Guess what’s under the cloth.
» Wait a sec … the FBI had them? Well, funny story about that. Back in March, the group says they gained access to a computer owned by an FBI official. Just by chance, they found a file on the agent’s desktop titled “NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv” — a long list of 12 million UDID identifiers for iOS devices, along with a number of other pieces of personal info. AntiSec released just 1 million of the UDID numbers (which you can analyze here to see if you were nailed), but it’s worth keeping in mind that the odds may not be super-high of getting hit. There are 410 million iOS devices on the market, as of July. The problem for many is that the FBI reportedly had this info in the first place. What did they need it for, and why was it sitting on some dude’s desktop?
UPDATE: The FBI says that there is “no evidence” they had a file like the one described above.
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Today in things you literally cannot make up: Kenneth Kahn, better known as Kenny the Clown, unknowingly acquired Steve Jobs’ recently-burgled iPad, and after he used the iPad to buy the song — again, not making this up — “Smooth Criminal,” police showed up. ”If it wasn’t tragic, it would be comical,” Kahn — still not making this up — said. Kahn hasn’t been charged, but his longtime friend Kariem McFarlin, who gave Kahn the iPad as payback for $300 debt he was owed, has.
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The complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission claims infringement of seven Motorola Mobility patents on features including location reminders, e-mail notification and phone/video players, Motorola Mobility said today. The case seeks a ban on U.S. imports of devices including the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. Apple’s products are made in Asia.
“We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers’ innovations,” Motorola Mobility said in an e-mailed statement.
Just a reminder of how crazy the current patent war is.
The earliest known iPad prototype: Here’s a bit of history that NetworkWorld surfaced as a result of the Apple/Samsung lawsuit — back in 2002, Apple was already working on tablet prototypes. (“I actually don’t know which model shop made this,” noted Jony Ive during testimony in the trial, “but I recognize this as a model that was produced during our exploration.”) Here’s what the prototype looked like. A couple interesting things: First, no buttons. Second, it looks like the monitor half of an old iBook. Third, it’s very thick compared to the current iPad models. But clearly, this was the iPad before all the rough edges were sanded off.
Samsung Electronics defeated Apple in the latest spat in the rivals’ patent wars when a British judge ruled Samsung’s Galaxy tablets did not infringe the U.S. company’s designs for the iPad because they were “not as cool.”
In Monday’s High Court judgment Judge Colin Birss said that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets belonged to the same family as the Apple design when viewed from the front, but the Samsung products were “very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back.”
“They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool,” he said. “The overall impression produced is different.”
READ MORE: Samsung wins court case against Apple because it’s “not as cool”
Defeat disguised as victory.
We never talked about him going back to Iran or anything like that. He was just speaking full-fledged Farsi and the representative came back and denied our sale. I would say if you’re trying to buy an iPhone, don’t tell them anything about Iran.Atlanta resident Zack Jafarzadeh • Commenting on a recent trip to the Apple Store in Atlanta’s Perimeter Mall, when a friend wanted to purchase a new iPhone. Jafarzadeh’s story came to light after another Apple Store customer, University of Georgia student Sahar Sabet, contacted her local news station after being denied a new iPad for the same reason, citing State Department regulations and the fractured relations between the two countries. (She later got an apology after calling customer service.) Apple has not commented on the policy, or the story, at this time, though two Islamic-American groups have condemned the practice. source (via • follow)
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