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Quickoffice Connect Offers Usable, Simple Document Access

January 19th, 2011 | No Comments

It’s awkward to have to break out a laptop in a crowded airport just to make minor changes to a document, but the Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite makes it possible to get into the details from the screen of an iPad or iPhone. Excel spreadsheets and Word documents are easily created and edited, documents can be moved across WiFi, and cloud-based storage providers can be used with Quickoffice, without pain. Although there are many options for reading and editing documents created with the legacy file formats of Microsoft Office, Quickoffice Connect can also use the Office OpenXML formats introduced with Office 2007. For users who simply need remote file access and viewing capabilities, the company also offers the free Quickoffice Connect, and when advanced editing is on the menu but remote access isn’t, there’s Quickoffice Mobile Suite at $4.99; the full-blown Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite is available from the Apple iTunes App Store for $9.99. – …

Taobao Takes Down iTunes Accounts After Complaints

January 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Taobao removed listings for 50,000 iTunes accounts after complaints. – A popular Chinese online marketplace has removed 50,000 Apple iTunes accounts being offered on its Website following a controversy that erupted last week.
The decision by Taobao follows a Jan. 6 report by the Global Times that revealed the accounts were available for between 1 and 200 yuan, whic…

Apple iTunes Dominates Amazon in Digital Downloads: Report

December 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple iTunes continues to dominate the paid digital-download market, outpacing Amazon.com’s share, but faces a major rival if Google launches a music service. – Apples iTunes continues to dominate the paid digital-download market,
according to new data from research company NPD Group, comfortably outpacing
Amazon.com.
For the third quarter of 2010, iTunes share of that market rose to 66.2
percent, up from 63.2 percent for the same quarter in 2009. Meanw…

Twitter, Apple Ping Connect for Music Discovery

November 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Twitter and Apple are now syncing up to let iTunes users of the Ping social network port their posts as Twitter tweets, a pairing that could spur Facebook to connect with Ping. – Twitter said Nov. 11 that it is now connecting with Ping, the Apple iTunes music social network that failed to get in sync with Facebook earlier this year.
Based on the technology Apple acquired from Lala, Ping is packaged as part of the new iTunes 10. The social software lets users follow iTunes’ …

Google Android to Duel Apple iTunes in Music

September 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Google’s music service plans are crystallizing in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker to challenge Apple iTunes in the digital music market. – Google signaled its intent to go after Apple’s iTunes
dynasty in May when it quietly revealed
it had acquired Simplify Media to add for Android smartphones.

Simplify Media
provides an efficient way for users to take music they own on
their desktop that isn’t copy-protected and stream it to a…

Apple iTunes Fake Reviews Settled by FTC

August 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple iTunes reviews allegedly written by a gaming PR agency are to be taken down, as the result of a settlement between the firm and the FTC. – Apple iTunes users can rest a little easier, now that the Federal Trade
Commission has settled with a public relations firm accused of posting fake
customer reviews for mobile gaming apps.
The original FTC complaint accused California-based Reverb Communications of posting
iTunes Store reviews t…

CDMA iPhone 4 rumors again, iTunes 9.2 out and ready for iPhone 4, iPhone 4 ship date slips again

June 17th, 2010 | No Comments

iPhone rumors will never die; they just go away for a few days near an Apple event. Those iPhone 4 CDMA rumors have surfaced again and point to a launch in Q4.

Apple iTunes 9.2 has been released and is ready for iOS4 and iPhone 4 users. The new version can be downloaded now ahead of [...]

Chip Shot: Intel Sponsors of Tomorrow Goes Mobile – Postcard Style

March 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Intel is giving iPhone users the opportunity to bring postcards back from the days of gift shops and stamps with a digital twist. “Postcards From The Future” allows iPhone users to send fun and interactive digital postcards to their friends near and far via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter or by email. People can find this free iPhone application in the Apple iTunes App Store.

Johnny Cash Fan Wins Apple’s 10 Billionth Song Contest

February 25th, 2010 | No Comments

The Apple iTunes Store received its 10 billionth song download, and a lucky Johnny Cash fan in Georgia winner of the Apple iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs contest has a $10,000 iTunes gift card headed his way.
– One lucky Apple iTunes customer and Johnny Cash fan has $10,000 worth of songs in his future.
Apple announced Feb. 25 that Louie Sulcer, of Woodstock, Ga., was the
winner of its iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs contest, as his
purchase of Johnny Cashs Â“Guess Things Happen That WayÂ” was…

Apple Tunes iPad Tablet Apps to Make Consumers Say iWant

January 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple’s iBookstore joins the App Store and iTunes Store to provide applications and content for the iPad. The iWork applications Numbers, Pages and Keynote further help to differentiate the Apple iPad from Amazon Kindle and other book reader devices. Apple CEO Steve Jobs claims that between Apple iTunes, App Store and now iBookstore, 125 million credit cards are enabled for one-click shopping on Apple devices, a big motivator for application development in the Apple world. Heres a look at some of the applications as shown during the iPad launch event on Jan. 27, 2010.
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Turn On Your iPod and Learn

October 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Matthew Symonds (independent.co.uk) reports that Warwick Business School has made its courses and research material available in iTunes University, a free education area within the Apple iTunes Store. Symonds cites new research suggesting â€œthat university students who learn by downloading a podcast lecture achieve significantly higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person.â€

Gnomedex gets its own iPhone app

August 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Gnomedex gets its own iPhone application and is available for free download through the Apple iTunes Store [iTunes link]. Gnomedex is a technology conference for the world’s leading bloggers and tech-savvy enthusiasts which will be held onÂ August 20 – 22, 2009 in Seattle.
From the main screen, you can tap on:

Signup. The sign-up page on [...]

Marketwire Review – Press Release Distribution

July 5th, 2009 | No Comments

PR agencies, large companies and small businesses all have the need to announce news through a press release, still a great way to gain media exposure and PR. Once those releases have been written, itâ€™s often a wise idea to distribute the press release over a newswire (which makes your news available to thousands of [...]