Year: 2010

Apple plans Black Friday sale

Apple has sent out an email informing customers of its plans for a Black Friday sale. The company will hold a special, one-day shopping event on Friday, Nov. 26.

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving Day in the US and the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season. The origin of the term is that this is when retailers get to go into the “black” as opposed to the “red.” And it’s the busiest shopping day of the year.

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iPad-only daily publication to be announced Dec. 9?

John Gruber of “Daring Fireball” (http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/the_daily_and_recurring_subscription_billing) says that, per various media reports, Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs, will unveil a new, iPad-only (at least initially), digital “newspaper” called the “Daily” at the end of this month.

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Woz: Apple has bought Nuance

Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak says in an video interview that Apple has bought Nuance, a voice recognition company, reports “mocoNews” (http://moconews.net/article/419-is-apple-buying-nuance-a-mystery-wrapped-in-a-wozniak-Video/).

“I think voice recognition is going to become, more and more, a part of these machines,” he says in the interview with Romil Patel, founder of TVDeck.com. “Apple’s probably thinking the same way. They recently bought the company Nuance.”

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