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Announcement Apple Consumer Electronics iOS iPad mini Retail Store

They’re heeeeeeeeere! New Retina iPad mini sneaks into the store

Without any kind of fanfare, or even a spooky little girl to tip us off, Apple snuck the new Retina iPad mini into the online store shortly after midnight PST. No sign of even the store being down as I alluded to earlier. It remains to be seen whether the devices actually hit retail shelves […]

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Announcement Hardware iPad mini Rumor

Late Night Bulletin: Apple may release iPad mini with Retina display tomorrow

With the release of the iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, and the iPad Air out of the way, people can focus on the next big thing; the new iPad mini. Many sources have been suggesting a November 21st release for the smaller tablet or a possible delay of another week to hit the stores on Black […]

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Meetup User Group

PPUG Meets in Philadelphia this Saturday, November 9

Join us for a spectacular autumnal meeting on Saturday, November 9, 2013 at noon. The Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group (PPUG) will hold its pre-holiday festival meeting from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the beautiful Manayunk Brewing Company. We usually have lunch (and a brew) while we talk mobile computing.  We will need to leave […]

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Apple Google Mac Mavericks Software

Apple releases updates to Mail and iBooks into the wild

Early on Thursday, Apple released Mail Update for Mavericks 1.0 and iBooks Update 1.0.1. iBook got the usual “security and stability improvements”, which isn’t much, but it did add a .1 to the version number. Mail, on the other hand, only inched from version 7.0 build (1816) to 7.0 build (1822). While the number treatment […]

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Accessory Announcement Consumer Electronics Gadget

Pebble announces SDK 2.0 and better iOS notifications

Wednesday morning, via streaming video, Pebble’s CEO Eric Migicovsky opened up the presentation with an overview of the upcoming additions to the Pebble smart-watch’s capabilities which will be unlocked with the release of the Pebble SDK (Software Development Kit) version 2.0. You can read the main points from his introduction on the Pebble Blog, which also […]