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Storm Surfers for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Storm Surfers follows two-time world champion Tom Carroll and big wave tow-in pioneer Ross Clarke-Jones as they hunt down and ride the world’s biggest waves. Ross and Tom have conquered monster waves off South Africa, ridden a typhoon in Japan and surfed big waves in the Southern Ocean that smash into the most inhospitable areas.

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Twitter for iPad

Twitter is the best thing going for communiqués of 140 characters or less, and third-party developers have created a sea of apps to keep conversations flowing when users are away from the PC. Twitter itself has crafted apps for a variety of mobile phones, including the Apple iPhone , but left a space for third ...

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Toshiba Will Offer Android-Based Folio 100 Tablet

The rapidly growing category of tablets has a new family member. On Thursday, Toshiba announced that its Folio 100, a 10.1-inch, Android 2.2-based tablet computer, will be on sale in Europe by the end of October. The tablet could capture as much as 15 to 20 percent of that market in Europe by the ...

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Taking Data With You: FileMaker Go on the iPad

As our lives become increasing mobile, most of us have data we want to carry around with us. One interesting solution is FileMaker Go, which is now available for the iPhone and the iPad. I often want to carry a variety of documents around with me, which is why I use programs like Documents ...

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Facebook scam claims to need testers for iPhone 4, iPad

Popularity of Apple products has always brought out scammers, hoping to prey on the wish list's of potential targets. Currently, a Facebook scam promises to send consumers a brand-new iPhone 4 or iPad 3G for testing. In return for your opinion, you get to keep the device.

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AutoCAD coming to iPad, iPhone, returning to Mac | Reuters

Autodesk is bringing its AutoCAD architecture, design, and engineering software back to the Mac OS after an 18-year absence, the company announced this evening. But the company plans to do more than offer a Mac OS X version of AutoCAD: It says it will release a free version of the software, dubbed AutoCAD WS, for ...

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iPad, iPhone, notebook, Netbook: A gadget glut?

What is the tipping point for having too many gadgets? Well, it depends. First, let me count the ways I can be connected: a couple of MacBooks, an iPad 3G, an iPhone 3GS, an old HP tower, and, if I need it, a BlackBerry Storm 2 (though Wi-Fi access only for the BlackBerry, ...

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Will the iPad Prevail in the Battle for Business Tablets?

The iPad is the first of the third generation of tablet computers; the first two generations, one in the late 1990s and one in the 2002 timeframe, were failures. The tablets were too bulky, too slow, too expensive, and wireless connectivity had not yet advanced to broadband Wi-Fi and wide-area network services. Now that the ...

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Porn and pirates hide Android’s money maker

Android might be eating up smartphone market share, but Google's marketplace is leaving developers disgruntled. Nearly half aren't making the money they'd imagined they'd make off of Android, and the lack of decent search, filtering, and ratings have been blamed. Also: Google's laissez faire approach to gate keeping means the quality stuff's hidden ...

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Netflix now available for the iPhone and iPod touch

One of my most used applications on the Apple iPad is the Netflix streaming video player. I just read over on Boy Genius Report that Netflix is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. The official press release details the release today.

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