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While Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were huge rivals during their time at the top of the world’s biggest technology companies, they still managed to maintain a good friendship. Steve was always quick to point out the flaws in Microsoft’s products, but it seems that never came between them.
Western Digital has announced a new external Thunderbolt drive that might just be the perfect accompaniment for your Mac. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo offers external storage of up to 6TB, with data transfer speeds up to 2Gbps.
While Apple’s first quarter financial call may not have included any new product announcements, it was far from boring. The Cupertino company announced record-breaking results from the first financial quarter of 2012, with $46.33 billion in revenue and a net profit of $13.06 billion.
In a tribute to Steve Jobs, this Virgin America Airbus A320 features the words “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” on its side. The quote was famously used by the Apple co-founder in a commencement address he delivered to graduating students of Standford University, back in 2005.
The animation you see when turning a page within the iBooks application for iOS is rather impressive when you first see it, but then the novelty wears off and you realize that this is really the only gesture iBooks has; flipping back and forth between pages. The KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence has realized that’s just not enough for some readers, so it has designed this terrific eBook gesture concept.
Owners of the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S are now able perform an untethered jailbreak of their A5 powered devices thanks to a tool created by a collaboration of the iPhone Dev Team, the Chronic Dev team, and other members of the jailbreaking community. Called ‘Absinthe A5‘ the tool is currently Mac only, though PC & Linux versions are in the works.
Following the launch of iBooks 2 yesterday and the new software’s support for digital textbooks, Apple added a textbook section to its iBookstore which will be the home of all those magnificent interactive books it showed off at the event. But those who began downloading titles as soon as they went live discovered something: textbooks files are huge!
Apple’s final announcement at today’s education-focused media event saw senior vice president of Internet Software and Services – Eddy Cue, take to the stage to unveil an iTunes U app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The app builds on the existing iTunes U content available via the iTunes Store, which Cue revealed has had over 700 million downloads to date.