Type of Article: MacNews News Article

Comcast posts video about its iPhone/iPod touch app

Posted by | Mar 8, 2010 | |

Comcast offers a free Comcast Mobile app for iPhone/iPod touch devices. It offers access to your Comcast services and version 2.0 includes remote DVR functionality, as well as other new features.

Now Comcast has a new video out today demonstrating its new version of the app, including the remote DVR function. You can find it at http://blog.comcast.com/2010/03/comcast-mobile-20-now-available-on-the-app-store.html. And you can find the app itself at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

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Analysts expect big iPad sales

Analysts expect big iPad sales

Posted by | Mar 7, 2010 | , |

Pre-orders for the iPad start Friday, March 12, and at least two analysts are predicting the new device will fly off the shelves.

“I expect a surge going out the door,” Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research told “Computerworld” (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9166958/Apple_s_iPad_Will_it_sell_?source=rss_news). “There’s a group of Apple advocates that will queue up no matter what. Apple has the most effective branding in the industry, and these people think of themselves as acolytes, they do think of themselves as the ‘Mac’ in Apple’s ‘I’m a Mac’ ads.”

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Steve Jobs: iPad won’t tether to the iPhone

Posted by | Mar 6, 2010 | |

According to “9to5Mac” (http://www.9to5mac.com/jobs-swedish-iphone-43609634) Apple CEO Steve Jobs emailed an Apple fan to tell him that you won’t be able to tether the upcoming iPad to the iPhone.

The article says that “Jezper from Sweden” has asked, “Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?”

And Jobs reportedly sent this short reply: “No. Sent from my iPhone.”

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for March 5

Posted by | Mar 5, 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/).

Zidware has announced My Colorz & Shapes, their newest educational iPhone app to join My Alphabet, My Numberz, Matheroids and ABC Invaders into the Nanoschool Kids series of personal learning for children. My Colorz & Shapes (US$0.99) offers a way for preschoolers to learn basic color and shape recognition.

TAS Productions has released Sleeping Pill 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch devices. The $0.99 app is specifically designed to help you sleep.

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