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Prizewinning Pennsylvania architect Peter Bohlin is the man who designed Apple’s award-winning New York cube store on Fifth Avenue – and he’s a computer illiterate, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the strangest thing, a $20,000 iPad that’s covered in the very best quality diamonds and being offered “in strictly limited quantities” right now by Mervis Diamond Importers. Read the rest of this entry »

Quite an interesting development here, LuLu.com – the haven for self-publishers seeking out a low risk means to publish their book or other non-digital product – has launched an iPad format conversion service for authors. Read the rest of this entry »

3G access may cost European iPad users around €25-35/month, a report claims.

According to a German newspaper T-Mobile sources are suggesting the carrier will charge between €25-35 per month for 3G services in Germany. No word yet from other carriers or European territories.

These prices are the equivalent of around £22-£31.50 per month for UK users and circa $33.80-$47 per month in US currency. For comparison, AT&T in the US is charging either $14.99 or $29.99 per month for different iPad data deals.

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“Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Friday made a surprise appearance at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to describe how a liver transplant saved his life — and why patients with less wealth and fame should have the same opportunities.”

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Build and test your iPad app using iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 available on the iPhone Dev Center. Only iPad apps built with iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 will be accepted for this initial review. Read the rest of this entry »

This is OK Go, whose latest video for new single ‘This Too Shall Pass’ has been watched over eight million times on YouTube, but hasn’t shifted too many records. The video is inspired, super to watch. What do we think of the song? Read the rest of this entry »

This could be a pretty big deal to working DJs who use digital music as part of their set – Pioneer is to make its powerful cross-platform digital music management software, rekordbox, available for free download for the first time after the successful launch of their new club standard CDJs.

Up until now, rekordbox software was only available with a purchase of either the CDJ-900 or CDJ-2000. Read the rest of this entry »

Entire industries are in a state of agitation as Apple prepares to ship its (perhaps) delayed iPad, with Apple imposing draconian secrecy demands on partners, Amazon leaning on publishers for lower eBook prices and TV and broadcasting networks attempting to find a sustainable business model for the wired generation.

In other words, that third wave of creative destruction and the reinvention not just of the media but of the wider culture it represents is beginning to break. This is only the start.

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Manufacturing problems are alleged to have delayed Apple’s iPad shipments, according to a Chinese report picked up on by Digitimes. Read the rest of this entry »