The next iPad will adopt a dual-core chip, which would be a first for the company’s consumer line of handheld products, Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw, told clients in a note — as reported by “CNET” (http://macte.ch/eczVy).
“Apple is on track to refresh the iPad by March and iPhone by late summer,” he says. “A key component upgrade across these platforms will be a dual-core processor featuring a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores.”
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Scott Singer has announced Golf Fix 1.24 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Golf Fix features over 100 game improvement drills that demonstrate proper full swing and short-game techniques, as well as on course process and coaching. Drills in the US$1.99 app are demonstrated by Nick Paez and Jimmy Hanlin, two of the nation’s leading PGA instructors and promoters of golf.
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Apple will release three versions of the “iPad 2,” supporting either or a combination of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA, for 2011 with mass production to start as early as the later half of January, according to a “DigiTimes” report (http://macte.ch/fzX2z).
Apple will ship about 500,000-530,000 units to channels in January with shipment ratio of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA models at 3:4:3, the article says, quoting “industry sources” and “upstream component makers.” Apparently, Apple plans to work more closely with telecom carriers by offering more wireless solutions for iPad 2 to satisfy market demand.
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Wondershare Software has Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac 1.0.0, which can recover lost data including documents, archives, photos, videos, and audio files quickly, safely and thoroughly on Mac OS X 10.5 and higher.
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An Apple patent (number 7,859,521) for an integrated touch screen has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. And it shows that Apple is at least considering “touchless” touch screen interfaces for some devices — including Macs.
The patent relates generally to displays including display pixel stackups, and more particularly to touch sensing circuitry integrated into the display pixel stackup of a display. Per the patent, displays with touch sensing circuitry integrated into the display pixel stackup are provided.
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