Best Buy to Offer $50 Gift Card on iPad Purchase, $25 on iPad Mini

If you are thinking about buying the Retina display iPad or an iPad 2, check the offer Best Buy have for you. The retail giant has a limited time offer going on that entitles you to a free $50 gift card with the purchase of Retina iPad or iPad 2. If you purchase an iPad mini from Best Buy, you will get a $25 gift card. The offer is valid for all the iPad Models – Wifi and Cellular-starting from 16GB to 128GB. The offer is valid from 20 July to 22 July.

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Apple Expected to Buy HopStop

Let’s face the fact. Apple introduced Maps application which has been a total disaster. The application is still not as good as Google Maps and you may end up somewhere else rather than your desired destination. It has been revealed that Apple is planning to buy the navigation tool HopStop in order to improve their maps application. Apple also purchased Locationary, a company said to be the Wikipedia for companies. The news emerges from sources who wish to be anonymous as the deal is not yet final.

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Another Person in China Gets Electrocuted While Charging His iPhone 4

Using counterfeit products is not always recommended. Few days back, a Chinese girl was killed when she tried to answer a call on her iPhone 5 while charging and got electrocuted. Another report has emerged – again in China – that reports a man getting shocked when plugging in an iPhone 4 using a third party adapter.

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Apple Testing iPad With 13 Inch Display

According to a recent report by the WSJ, Apple is testing an iPad with a larger display, the device is rumored to feature a 13 inch display, and the company is also rumored to be working on larger display iPhone’s as well.

Apple is rumored to be trying out iPhone’s with display of between 4.7 inches and 5.7 inches, of course this does not mean that these devices will ever be released as they are apparently only being tested at the moment.

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iTunes Radio To Offer Pre-Release Album Stream To Users

iTunes Radio which launched earlier this year on September 18th after being announced at the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, 2013.

The new Apple iTunes Radio service is a free, ad-supported music streaming technology available to all iTunes users and features Siri integration on iOS.

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Apple Has Paid Out Over $8 Billion To Developers

Apple’s App Store has been a massive success for the company with billions of apps downloaded, it has also been a massive success for app developers and Apple’s CEO Tim Cook announced today during a conference at Goldman Sachs that Apple have paid over $8 billion to developers.

In January Apple announced that its app store had reached a massive 40 billion app downloads, they also announced at the same time that they had paid out over $7 billion to developers.

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Apple Unsure It Can Meet This Quarters iMac Demand

Apple announced record financial results earlier today, but its now been reported that Apple may have difficulties meeting demand for its new line of super slim iMac desktop computers this quarter.

Its no surprise that Apple has been experiencing problems meeting demand for some of it products of late, some of which has even contributed to the 17% drop in Mac sales during the first quarter of 2013.

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Apple Announces Latest Financial Results

Apple has announced its latest financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2012 which ended on the 29th of September, and they posted a quarterly revenue of $36 billion and a net profit for the quarter of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share.

Apple also announced details on how many of their various products they have sold, with a total of 26.9 million iPhones sold, which is 58 percent up on the same time last year.

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iOS 6 release may bring Siri on iPad this fall

When the iPhone 4S premiered last year this brought from it the new Asst feature referred to as Siri, but since subsequently owners of other iOS devices have got wondered should the feature would likely become designed for them, and after this there are claims that the iOS 6 launch may bring Siri around the iPad this fall.An article from 9To5 Mac will be reporting which trusted places say Siri is going to be arriving to the iPad this coming fall, and will get nearly all you are going to that iPhone 4S buyers currently enjoy. It is becoming claimed that particular of the big new features connected with iOS 6 will be Siri aid on the machine, and not just a Voice Dictation of which came with the latest iPad and iOS 5.One particular.All the features are going to be present besides obviously the cell phone related directions, but recently some got wondered if Siri could work for the iPad as the system normally is situated further through the user’s mouth, plus the microphone would not be able to perceive properly in addition to incorrectly understand command advices. This is not true though in accordance with sources as well as commands will probably return precisely the same or equivalent accuracy to your iPhone 4S, and the Express Dictation feature generally work suitable for new iPad homeowners.Apple provides allegedly recently been testing iOS 6’s Siri around the new iPad as well as the iPad 2, but it’s not known when Siri for iPad may launch only on the brand new iPad or for all models, although options think it’ll only be to the Retina Display unit. One of the reasons in which Siri was only at the iPhone 4S has been that The apple company believed that this might allow the Siri servers and usefulness to expand in an achievable speed.It is also unfamiliar if The apple company will present Siri with the rest connected with iOS 6 at next week’s WWDC keynote or with an event within the fall. Before today we told you which the iPhone 5 is being tipped for release during September alongside a great iPad mini, so Apple can reveal Siri with the iPad then. Siri offers its an unsafe though with lots of stating that the actual feature is largely a gimmick outside of the US.Do you want to see Siri brought out for the iPad?

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