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Apple wants to add social networking features to its online store

Apple wants to add social networking features to its online store

Posted by | Apr 15, 2010 | , |

According to an Apple patent (number 2010094730) at the US Patent & Trademark Office, Apple wants to enhance the shopping atmosphere of its online store by adding social networking features.

Representing activity in an online store is disclosed. Information associated with the activities of a second visitor to the store is received. An indication of the presence of a first visitor at the store is also received. The activities of the second visitor are displayed to the first visitor. The inventor is David A. Koski.

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Apple looking for engineer for iPad video capture

Apple looking for engineer for iPad video capture

Posted by | Apr 15, 2010 | , |

It’s “a sure thing that the iPad will get a camera in its second generation,” according to the “Cult of Mac” site (http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-is-hiring-ipad-camera-engineer/38256). There’s already an empty, iSight-shaped slot in the iPad’s frame and Apple is looking for a performance QA engineer to work on still and video capture in the iPad Media department.

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Steve Jobs is entrepreneur most admired by teenagers

Steve Jobs is entrepreneur most admired by teenagers

Posted by | Apr 15, 2010 | , |

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple, is the entrepreneur most admired by teenagers, according to a new survey by Junior Achievement USA (http://www.ja.org), the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.

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Steve Jobs is entrepreneur most admired by teenagers

Steve Jobs is entrepreneur most admired by teenagers

Posted by | Apr 15, 2010 | |

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple, is the entrepreneur most admired by teenagers, according to a new survey by Junior Achievement USA (http://www.ja.org), the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.

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Tidy Up for Mac OS X tidied up to version 2.1.5

Posted by | Apr 15, 2010 | , |

Hyberbolic Software (http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com) has released Tidy Up! 2.1.5, the latest version of their disk, file and folder processing utility for Mac OS X.

Tidy Up! can find duplicate files and packages using any criteria. Version 2.1.5 improves the search for content within email messages of Mail. Now it will find messages even if they differ by the number of spaces at the end of the message.

Tidy Up 2.1.5 requires Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) or higher. Upgrades from version 1.x are $20, and upgrades from version 2.x are free.

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