• Do You Believe in iPads? Apple shares took a hit Monday, getting pounded down to $220.35 before recovering back up to $224.55 at close Tuesday. One of the big questions AAPL investors seem to be asking themselves right now is how much faith they have in the iPad. For his part, Brian Marshall of Broadpoint Amtech seems to be among the optimists.
  • Mobile App Devs and the Quest for Cash Everyone seems to be getting into the mobile app game -- but is anyone actually making any money doing it? While it may happen, it's rare that lone programmers sitting at home design apps that sell by the millions through Apple's iPhone App Store or the like -- but there is more than one way to make money.
  • Can Apple's New Hire Create a Winning Wearable Tech Ensemble? Apple has hired a senior prototype scientist who's got expertise in wearable computing, according to a Fast Company report. His name is Richard DeVaul, and he was an organizer for the MIThril wearable computing project while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DeVaul describes himself as an "expert in signal processing and real-time statistical classification techniques."
  • Google's New Android Advocate Comes Out Swinging Sun Microsystems' loss was Google's gain on Monday, as former Sun guru Tim Bray announced that he's joined Google's Android push in the role of Developer Advocate. "Google and I have been a plausible match for a long time," Bray wrote in a blog post announcing the decision. "Web-centric, check. Search, check. Open-source, check. The list goes on."
  • Apple Tosses In a New iPad With $99 Battery Replacement Apple has announced a new service plan its upcoming iPad tablet devices: The company will replace iPads whose batteries can't hold a full charge for a $99 service fee plus $6.95 for shipping as well as taxes. This is not a matter of a technician removing the old battery and installing a new one. The whole device will be replaced with a brand-new iPad.
  • FileMaker Pro Goes to 11 Fans of relational databases will find a lot to smile about in the latest release of FileMaker Pro. The program, long a favorite of Mac users, simultaneously released last week a new version of the data crunching powerhouse for both OS X and Windows. "This is a pretty significant release in the sense that there's a lot going on in it," FileMaker Group Product Manager Rick Kalman told MacNewsWorld.
  • Will the iPad Bookshelves Be Sparsely Stocked? There are rumors that Apple's iPad launch has already run into some rough patches that are uncharacteristic for the company, but how much substance is actually behind them? One frequently mentioned challenge is having a sufficiently impressive array of available content that's compatible with the device.
  • Vlingo Faces Off With the Dragon: A Speech-to-Text Smackdown When Apple enabled in-app purchases for iPhone applications, it seemed as though the days of "free" and "paid" versions of any given app were coming to an end. Soon, I thought, everything in the store would start out free as a teaser and then charge for an upgrade. That hasn't exactly panned out universally, but Vlingo's new voice application does charge in the way I thought all apps would charge by now.
  • EFF Knocks Apple for Dumping on Devs The first rule of Apple's App Club is: You do not talk about App Club. Any developer who writes an app for the App Store is forbidden from making any public statements about the iPhone Developer Program Licensing Agreement. Second rule of App Club is: Said developers also can't sell their apps to other app stores, even if that app is eventually rejected by Apple.
  • Thunder in Cupertino Makes It Rain on Wall Street Apple has announced the iPad will hit retail shelves April 3, sending the adrenalin surging through competitors' veins. HP and several Chinese manufacturers have announced tablets in what might be perceived as an attempt to capitalize on the not-quite-a-laptop, not-really-a-netbook category.
  • Valve Opens Pipeline for Mac Gaming Valve one of the largest distributors of online games, has announced that it will make its Steam online gaming service and proprietary gaming engine, Source, available on the Mac. The service, Steamworks for the Mac, comes equipped with Steam Play, a feature that allows play on either a PC or Mac at no additional charge.

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