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iPad halo effect brightens iPhone prospects

by Gregg Keizer on 10 August, 2010

Apple’s new iPad casts a “halo” over the iPhone, with owners of the tablet about twice as likely to want the company’s smartphone as consumers who own neither, a Nielsen analyst said today. “It’s the common operating system,” said Roger Entner, head of research for Nielsen’s telecommunications group. “That, and the ability…
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    IDC: Tablet shipments to reach 46 million in 2014

    by Agam Shah on 21 May, 2010

    Apple’s iPad will drive the burgeoning tablet computer market and shipments could grow sixfold by 2014, IDC said in research released on Thursday. IDC projected tablet shipments to reach 7 million this year and topping 46 million in 2014. Tablets becoming differentiated from PCs or smartphones could also push growth,…
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    Could iPad be driving spike in Mac use?

    by Philip Michaels on 21 May, 2010

    Apple may be enjoying strong initial sales for the iPad — the company did sell a million units in the 28 days after it launched the device, after all. But one report suggests that Apple could be reaping another benefit from the iPad’s early popularity in the form of increased market…
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    Study reveals world’s biggest spammers

    by Xavier Verhoeven on 29 April, 2010

    Ever wondered where all that pesky spam in your inbox comes from? According to a report from IT security firm Sophos, the primary offenders are the United States (13 percent), India (seven percent) and Brazil (seven percent), accounting for hundreds of millions of junk messages each day. The Sophos report doesn’t look directly at…
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    Survey reveals iPad awareness and attitudes

    by Xavier Verhoeven on 24 March, 2010

    A recent study by US research firm comScore looked at over 2,000 internet users’ responses to a survey of awareness, attitudes and opinions regarding the iPad and other e-readers/tablet computers. Their findings weren’t exactly unexpected, but do offer some interesting insight into the tablet market. “The tablet and e-reader market is developing at…
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    Gartner: Smartphone sales increase disappoints

    by Mikael Ricknas on 17 December, 2009

    Smartphones grabbed a smaller-than-expected part of overall mobile phone sales in 2009, and Nokia is largely to blame, according to market research company Gartner. n 2009, smartphones will represent 14 percent of overall unit sales to end users, a 24 percent increase from 2008. However, Gartner had expected smartphones to increase their share even…
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    Wikipedia colour-codes for credibility

    by Daniel Ionescu on 1 September, 2009

    In a bid to become a more trustworthy source, Wikipedia will use color codes to indicate the reliability of an article's author. Called “WikiTrust,” the optional feature will assign a colour code to newly-edited text, based on the author’s reputation. Famous for its vast number of articles, but not for its reliability, Wikipedia is…
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    Review: ArXiview for iPhone

    by Kate Dohe on 27 May, 2009

    Serious researchers in the sciences are likely already familiar with arXiv.org, Cornell’s open access digital repository for preprint scientific articles. Now it’s possible to browse, search for, skim, and save scientific articles available at arXiv.org when you're on the go, thanks to arXiview for the iPhone. ArXiview’s research features are appropriately basic for a…
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    Amazon to offer free cloud services to academics

    by Nancy Gohring on 30 April, 2009

    Amazon is inviting students, educators and researchers to apply for grants that will give them free access to the company's hosted computing services. The company expects to dole out up to $US1 million ($A1.33 million) per year worth of services, depending on the quality of the applications, it said. Amazon has already made…
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  9. Blogs
    Foresight in advertising: 1987 to now

    by Keith White on 4 February, 2009

    After the 1984 Macintosh commercial, the next most celebrated is probably the 1987 Knowledge Navigator video. Envisioned by then Apple CEO John Sculley in part to promote the concepts behind the ill-fated Newton, it covers a gently frenetic six minutes in the life of an imaginary American geography professor. More of which in a…
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    Review: If you can see it, Notebook can organise it

    by David Braue on 5 December, 2008

    As a writer, my everyday research process involves researching and collating information from a range of sources, then synthesising it, along with my own value-adds, into interesting new stories. For this purpose – and many others – there isn't much I could ask for that isn't provided by Circus Ponies Software's Notebook 3.0. Notebook…
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    Review: Maple 12: Scientific computing marches forward

    by Flip Phillips on 9 October, 2008

    Mention one of the Ms of mathematical software in the wrong company, and things are liable to erupt into a near-religious war. The Big 3—MATLAB (), Mathematica (), and Maple—have provided scientists, engineers, and students with a broad selection of technical computation tools for more than 20 years. This has resulted in a veritable…
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