Author: dsellers

Analyst: Apple to sell 150,000 to 200,000 iPads this weekend

Analyst: Apple to sell 150,000 to 200,000 iPads this weekend

Posted by | Mar 31, 2010 | , |

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is predicting that Apple will sell 150,000 to 200,000 iPads this weekend. He’s also forecasting 2010 total sales of of 2.8 million iPads.

As noted by “Silicon Alley Insider” (http://macosg.me/2/27), those numbers are much lower than some estimates of six million to 10 million unit sales. However, Munster goes on to say that the apps will ultimately “drive demand longer term” for the iPad. The Sellers Research Firm (that’s me) predicts 500,000 unit sales this weekend and nine million total for 2010.

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for March 30

Posted by | Mar 30, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Jungle Disk has released a free app that that allows users to access and manage their data stored with Jungle Disk via iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. As the newest addition to Jungle Disk’s portfolio of online backup and storage solutions, the app expands the number of ways Jungle Disk users can store, backup and share data in the cloud.

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Apple releases QuickTime, iTunes, iPhoto updates

Apple releases QuickTime, iTunes, iPhoto updates

Posted by | Mar 30, 2010 | , |

Apple has released updates for QuickTime, iTunes and iPhoto. You can obtain ’em via the Software Updates component of Mac OS X’s Systems Preferences app.

QuickTime 7.6.6 addresses 16 security issues on both the Mac and Windows platforms. iTunes 9.1.0 has five security fixes and adds support for iPad syncing and iBooks organizing and syncing. iPhoto 8.1.2 adds iPad support and boasts syncing improvements.

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Apple patents range from parental control to electronic circuits

Apple patents range from parental control to electronic circuits

Posted by | Mar 30, 2010 | , |

Nine Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each.

Patent number 7,689,920 is for a parental control graphical user interface. Improved graphical user interfaces suitable for restricting the availability of media items and/or podcasts are also disclosed. The graphical user interfaces are particularly useful for a system that provides purchase and distribution of media in a client-server environment. The inventors are Jeffrey L. Robbin, David Heller and Jeff Miller.

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