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FileMaker 11 Database Training Series and Certification Testing available

FileMaker Inc. (http://www.filemaker.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, has announced the availability of the FileMaker Training Series for FileMaker 11, a self-paced learning program to help intermediate to advanced database users and developers master the essentials of the software.

The FileMaker Training Series is a resource to help prepare for the FileMaker 11 Certification examination, also available today. The training is designed to benefit anyone from consultants and in-house corporate developers to independent developers and professionals running their own business.

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‘Your Mac Life’ goes hands-on with the iPad

On this week’s “Your Mac Life,” the YML gang talks iPads with two special guests: Ian Schray, newly minted marketing guy at GadgetTrak, and Bill Reynolds, owner of Audio/Video Awakenings.

They discuss not only their personal plans for their iPads but how both will integrate them into their businesses.

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

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Analyst: Apple sold 7.5 million iPhones in first three months of 2010

USB analyst Maynard Um told clients today in a note that Apple sold 7.5 million iPhones in the first three months of 2010, according to a recent Q-Series survey.

The study also found that Apple leads the smartphone industry in both mindshare and retention rate. Fifty-six percent of respondents in the Q-Series survey think Apple is the best smartphone manufacturer. According to “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com) the implied retention rate among a sample of 310 users is 95 percent. As Um notes, that’s well beyond anything else seen ever in the industry.

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