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New Brunswick tourist destination keen on iPads, iPods

Posted by | Jul 19, 2010 | |

Visitors to one of New Brunswick’s most popular tourists destinations are plugged into interpretive iPads and iPods, reports the “Telegraph-Journal” (http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1140471).

Paul Gaudet, interpretive services manager at Hopewell Rocks, said they are probably the only tourist centre in the country using the technology this way, the article adds. As part of a pilot project guides can show tourists a variety of historical and geological information on the handheld Apple technology.

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Reactions to Apple’s response to ‘antennagate’

Reactions to Apple’s response to ‘antennagate’

Posted by | Jul 19, 2010 | , |

HTC Corp. and Samsung Electronics aren’t happy with Apple’s claims that the iPhone 4’s reception problems are shared by other global smartphone makers, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://macosg.me/2/jw).

Taiwan-based HTC said Monday that reception problems aren’t common on smartphones and Apple should address the problem on its own rather than blame competitors. Samsung said it “hasn’t received significant customer feedbacks on any signal reduction issue for the Omnia II” smartphone that was featured in Apple’s video.

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Marvell announces Mac compatible Easy Plug Computer Installer

Marvell announces Mac compatible Easy Plug Computer Installer

Posted by | Jul 19, 2010 | , |

Marvell (http://www.plugcomputer.org) has released the open source Easy Plug Computer Installer (EPI) to simplify Plug Computing software deployment. EPI is the first ever wizard-based installation tool for Marvell’s Plug Computer.

It provides more than 20,000 Plug Computer developers worldwide with a faster, easier way to integrate their low-power and affordable Plug Computing solutions, according to the folks at Marvell.

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Seagate introduces GoFlex Home for centralized storage

Seagate introduces GoFlex Home for centralized storage

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Seagate (http://www.seagate.com) has unveiled the newest addition to its GoFlex family of hard drives — the GoFlex Home network storage system. When it’s connected to a wireless router, an entire household can centrally store, easily access and continuously back up files wirelessly from Mac and Windows systems on the home  network.

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Fifty-plus free iWork templates from iWork4School

Posted by | Jul 19, 2010 | , |

More than 50 free iWork templates are now available for education professionals, students and teachers from the new iWork4School (http://www.iwork4school.com/). The site is a sister site of the Free iWork Templates blog.

Each template is sorted by three criteria: grade level, subject and intended users, says Joel Wolfgang, founder of both the Free iWork Templates Blog and iWork4School. These two sites hope to help education professionals by saving them the time necessary to create their own templates for projects, papers and assignment, he adds.

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