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We Need Your Feedback: Do the battery improvements in iOS 5.1 work for you?

Ladies and gentlemen, there’s been some contention here among the PowerPage staff as to whether the battery improvements in Apple’s recently-released iOS 5.1 update genuinely work or if this is part of Steve Jobs’/Apple’s Reality Distortion Field. Within this inter-staff contention, voices have been raised, furniture may have been lit ablaze and thrown, I’ve informed […]

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Opinion: Apple’s online store goes down like a sack of potatoes…so what’s the next step?

If you have a good thing that people want, there’s going to be demand. As such, during the next several hours after Apple’s launch of the third-generation iPad, the company’s online store suffered a catastrophic failure as a result of the impending traffic and transactions that came to its door. As always, PowerPage head honcho […]

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Effort to release a Steve Jobs action figure halted by pressure from lawyers, family

Not to start your day on a down note…but a Steve Jobs action figure won’t be hitting the shelves any time soon. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Tandy Cheung of In Icons Productions has announced that the product is no more on the company website saying the item won’t be sold now or in the […]

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Apple patent towards HDTV design with additional backlighting features

This could turn into something pretty cool. Per Free Patents Online, Apple is looking into building displays with dynamic backlight adaptation for better picture quality, particularly when watching letterboxed widescreen movies on a high-definition screen. The concept was revealed this week in a new Apple patent application discovered by AppleInsider. The filing, entitled “Dynamic Backlight […]

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Rare photo of Steve Jobs surfaces, expresses his opinion regarding IBM at the time

We miss you, Steve. Per Andy Hertzfield, a new image from 1983 has been released of Steve Jobs, clad in blue jeans and a leather jacket, expressing his affection for then rival IBM while walking the streets of New York City in the lead up to the launch of the first Mac. Andy Hertzfield, one […]