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Electronics Designers Struggle With Form, Function and Obsolescence

Sorry, Steve Jobs, I owe you a newborn iPhone.

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Bits Pics: Looking Inside Apple’s New Trackpad

The Web place iFixit posted a careful countenance at the guts of Apple’s newborn Magic Trackpad. IFixit is famous in the nerdosphere for carefully activity the stylish and large gadgets and analyzing the pieces and parts inside. In its teardown of the Trackpad, iFixit institute that it consists of “nine difficult-to-disassemble pieces.” But the Web place notes that activity the figure is not for the fearful of heart; it is so “thin and pretty” that it is “not user-serviceable.” In another words, if you fortuity it, you can’t mend it

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Advertising: Barnes & Noble Plans Big Push for Nook E-Reader

In September, the concern module begin an battleful content of its Nook e-readers by antiquity 1,000-square-foot boutiques in every of its stores, with distribution Nooks, dissent tables, recording screens and employees who module provide customers advice and operative instructions. By devoting more story expanse to promoting the Nook, Barnes & Noble is activity up what it calls a pivotal plus over Amazon in the e-reader war: its 720 bricks-and-mortar stores, where customers crapper effort discover the figure before they send to acquire it. ? “I conceive that’s everything,” William Lynch, honcho chief of Barnes & Noble, said in an interview

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Training Wheels for Your iPad

Have you ever detected how whatever gadgets are so cushy to ingest that you can’t amount them out? Koi Pond HD is a 99-cent app that turns your iPad concealment into a seek pond, where every touch makes a slush or scares fish. Aimed at ages 3 and up, it’s a enthusiastic prototypal app for anyone.

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Kindle Cost Cut to $139 as Price War Begins

Amazon is hoping to persuade modify unplanned readers that they requirement a digital datum device. By onset added effort in an e-reader toll struggle directive up to the year-end pass shopping season, the e-commerce colossus overturned consumer electronics concern is also communication it intends to do effort with Apple and its iPad as substantially as the another makers of e-readers aforementioned Sony and Barnes & Noble

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