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NEW YORK – Yesterday’s stellar first quarter results for Apple are spreading joy on the Nasdaq today, with shares in the company up $50. According to the Associated Press, the jump in the company’s share price has driven the composite index to what could easily be its biggest gain of 2012.
Apple soared past [...]

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Happy Tuesday, everyone. It’s time for the evening wrap-up where we check out all the big stories that made headlines today. And we can’t talk about big stories today without mentioning Apple’s quarterly earnings call – Apple Q1 earnings top entire history. By comparison, everything else might be a secondary story, but there is good [...]

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After the iOS 5.1 software update, many iPhone owners are noticing that the “3G” icons on their devices have changed into “4G” icons.
When Apple announced the new iPad on Wednesday, it also revealed that iOS and iTunes updates are now available. between the new mobile operating system and media app, [...]

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Back in October, just after Apple had launched iPhone 4S, a report claimed that AT&T was working with Apple to change the network indicator to “4G” from “3G”  for iPhone 4S.
Apple has included that change in iOS 5.1 according to the release notes.
As you may recall, the iPhone 4S supports  14.4 Mbps HSDPA, which is marketed by some [...]

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TOKYO, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –NHN Japan Corporation (hereinafter referred to as NHN Japan) announced on March 5 that its free calling and free messaging app “LINE” has achieved 20 million downloads in total (for both iPhone/Android) in approximately 8 months since its launch.
Changes in number of total downloads (iPhone/Android [...]

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. _ Apple’s slogan for its iPhone 4 is “This changes everything.”
NASCAR could say the same thing after Brad Keselowski tweeted a photo during Monday’s Daytona 500.
The picture in question was of the fiery crash involving Juan Pablo Montoya and a jet drier truck in Turn 3 at Daytona International Speedway.
After officials red-flagged [...]

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Apple has today released a developer preview of its new Mac OS X Mountain Lion operating system. Enabling us to see what Apple has in store for Mac users in the next version of their Mac OS X.
The preview comes around seven months after Apple launched the final version of its Mac OS X Lion [...]

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UFC Undisputed 3 released today for PS3 and XBOX while Twisted Metal released for PS3. Could it be true that Twisted Metal iOS maybe possible in the future? per TouchArcade, Eat Sleep Play (the studio behind the game) is considering it:
“The Salt Lake City Tribune is reporting that after the studio finishes Twisted Metal, it’ll move on [...]

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By Tom Gibbs – January 24, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, BKS, BBY | Comments
Tom is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network — entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited.
There can be no doubt that the online retail segment has killed the long term viability prospects [...]

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Let's face it: The state of iPhone and iPad rumors is parlous, petty and paltry, where bad writing and punditry drives out the good.
Let’s face it: The state of iPhone and iPad rumors is parlous, petty and paltry, where bad writing and punditry drives out the good.
But perhaps one of the world’s greatest playwrights can [...]

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