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Steve Jobs was honored online and off as tributes poured into a memorial website set up by Apple for its late co-founder and shops closed temporarily as workers celebrated his life.

Doors were locked and curtains drawn at Apple Stores to allow retail store employees to tune into a private memorial being held in an amphitheater at the company’s headquarters in the northern California city of Cupertino. Shops reopened at noon, two hours after the event began.
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Apple fans in Australia and Japan on Friday became the first to get their hands on the new iPhone as the US technology giant unleashed its first device since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs.

In a party atmosphere, hundreds of people queued outside Apple’s four-storey flagship Sydney store and at its counterpart in Tokyo, filming the experience on their iPhones and iPads as staff inside clapped, cheered and chanted.
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Several Chinese online stores are offering die-hard Apple fans the opportunity to buy the much-anticipated next-generation iPhone 5. There’s just one catch — the US tech giant hasn’t released it yet.

The fake smartphones are available for as little as 200 yuan ($31) on hugely popular websites such as China’s largest online marketplace Taobao.com, which has 370 million registered users.
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NEW YORK & WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–OpenSkies, the premium transatlantic airline operating flights from New York and Washington, D.C. to Paris-Orly, is now offering iPads® to travelers. Beginning in October, OpenSkies will be the first French flag carrier to offer the iPad as a part of its inflight entertainment offering. The new devices will be introduced on the OpenSkies Newark to Paris-Orly route in an effort to further enhance customers’ onboard experience.
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Independent publisher Nosy Crow is pleased to announce that its Cinderella App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available on the App Store. Cinderella, an interactive picture book app for children, is the second in Nosy Crow’s series of 3-D fairy tale apps, recommended for children ages 3 and up.
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I was at the Dreamforce conference today in sunny San Francisco checking out all the latest and greatest in enterprise software and I couldn’t help but notice that tablets were all over the place. Well, not tablets, just the iPad. I counted at least 30 tablets on the show floor and they were all iPads. Has the iPad already won with businesses? Read More

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British Airways is currently running a trial during which it is providing its flight attendants with iPads, hoping the Apple tablets will enhance customer service and improve safety. According to Mashable, the iPads are preloaded with British Airways safety documents, including manuals, as well as information about each plane’s passengers. Flight attendants will be able to find out locate specific passengers, determine who they are traveling with, their Executive Club status, meal requests and more. British Airways has already tested the iPad with 100 members of its flight crew and has plans to deploy it to all of its senior flight crew members in the coming months. This is not the first time an airline has used a tablet; American Airlines began distributing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to first class passengers on several of its overseas flights in June.

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Do you have a great idea for an app? Are you looking to find out how hard it is to launch this app? This article aims to answer that question. This article will also explain how to launch an app and how hard that is to do within the app store.

In order to launch an app, you first must have a plan. This is the most important part. Next, you have to build a very good app. For any type of app that you build you should build it with two versions, a ‘lite’ version, where people get part or half of the app for free, and a paid version where people get the whole app that you have created.

Next, you have to advertise your app. This is the way your app will get noticed and bought by your potential customers. A few good places you may consider advertising your app would be Google Adwords, 148Apps, and Fusion Ads. Unfortunately, in order to get a lot of advertisements out to people who are going to, perhaps, purchase your app, you are going to need to spend some money. Also look into getting your app onto sites that review apps. There are dozens of sites that you can submit you app too, not all are free, you can get people on YouTube to review your app, and there are Bloggers who focus on iPhone apps.

Once your app takes off, the best thing for you, as the developer, to do is listen to the feedback that your customers give. If things in your app are not working they will let you know and you need to make the necessary changes as soon as possible. You should also be sure to track everything about your app, such as how well it is doing since its release, how highly it is ranked, how many downloads you have received, and how many downloads you have versus how much you are spending on advertising.

The last thing to do when you are launching your app is to take it global. There are hundreds of thousands of people outside the U.S. with iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. There are also over 400,000 apps available to consumers. Therefore, your app needs to be spectacular and unique. This way you have a better chance of competing in the app market, and better chances at your app making you money through mobile advertising and display advertising.

By Erica Ogg at GigaOm

Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:13am EDT

When Apple released its third-quarter 2011 earnings results on Tuesday,  the numbers were, as is becoming almost customary for the Cupertino crew lately, a huge blow-out. Success was spread over many parts of the business, particularly the company’s flagship products, the iPhone and the Mac. Both are growing and show that Apple is on a tear with the entirety of its business. But those iPad results? Those were fairly stunning.

While Android phones are outpacing the iPhone in market share, it’s clear that Apple is not anywhere close to giving up its lead in the tablet race. And despite the seemingly endless train of new tablets popping up, Apple is putting more space between its tablet and the rest of the field.

Here are the most important numbers from Apple’s earnings that show that the iPad is seemingly unstoppable, and clearly Apple’s most important product.

$6 billion. That’s how much money Apple made from the iPad just in April, May and June of this year. The key is that Apple now makes more money off the iPad, a product slightly more than one year old, than its Mac lineup. Apple pulled in just under $5 billion in revenue from Mac desktops and notebooks during the same quarter.

The people scooping up iPads are not just gadget hounds and consumers with expendable income. Buyers include large corporations who are handing them out to employees to help them do their job, something Apple has been actively pushing for a while. But Apple is also getting a boost in iPad sales even from sources the company didn’t anticipate.

“We sold more iPads to K–12 [schools] than we did Macs, which is absolutely shocking,” said Apple COO Tim Cook on a conference call with analysts on Tuesday. “We never would have predicted that.”

Shocking, perhaps. But probably not unwelcome. Apple very likely doesn’t mind getting kids used to working on iPads in elementary school.

9.25 million. That’s how many iPads Apple sold during the quarter. That blows away

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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
All-Time Record Revenue and Earnings

iPhone Sales Grow 142 Percent; iPad Sales Grow 183 Percent

CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended June 25, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $15.70 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent compared to 39.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

“Right now, we’re very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall.”

The Company sold 20.34 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 142 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.25 million iPads during the quarter, a 183 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 3.95 million Macs during the quarter, a 14 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.54 million iPods, a 20 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

“We’re thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Right now, we’re very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall.”

“We are extremely pleased with our performance which drove quarterly cash flow from operations of $11.1 billion, an increase of 131 percent year-over-year,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, we expect revenue of about $25 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $5.50.”

Apple will provide live streaming of its Q3 2011 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT on July 19, 2011 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq311. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.

This press release contains forward-looking statements including without limitation those about the Company’s estimated revenue and earnings per share. These statements involve risks

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