With the popularity of the MP3 player, lack of free time to actually ‘”read” books, and with services such as iTunes and Audible readily available, many people are turning to books in a audio format. Personally, I have been using Audible.com for a number of months now, and thoroughly enjoy listening to a good book [...]
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Seemingly Erroneous iTunes Charges Discovered
After going out to dinner at a restaurant this evening, I was in the middle of balancing our family budget when I saw a relatively large iTunes charge come come through. It was only about $60, but I had not purchased anything on iTunes lately. My first inclination was that my wife was upstairs buying [...]
Full Story »Manage VMWare Servers from an iPad
Srinivas Krishnamurti, Senior Director of Mobile solutions at VMWare, announces a new VCenter client application for the iPad. IT systems administrators will be able to use the app for managing their ESX 5.0 VM farms through, what looks to be, an extremely intuitive interface. Via the iPad’s touch interface, sysadmins can list the servers being [...]
Full Story »A Pinky for an iPad
On April 15, , Bill Jordan from Aurora Colorado went to the Cherry Creek mall in Denver to purchase an iPad for his employer but left sans 1 pinky finger. Bill had just purchased the iPad at the Apple store when a man walked up behind him as he was exiting the mall and snatched [...]
Full Story »David to Apple’s Goliath or Germans Release the WePad!
Now this looks interesting… a number of news sites and blogs have recently been posting about German company Neophonie which has launched what appears to be a viable challenge to the iPad; Otherwise known know as the “WePad.” The WePad is an Android based tablet that looks remarkably similar to the iPad but has a [...]
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