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China Counterfeit Explodes

April 10, 2011 Apple Inc.

There are more and more knock-offs (Shanzhai 山寨 in Chinese) coming out of China, the authenticity of these products are getting better and better. Of course I’m only referring to the esthetic appearance and not the quality or workmanship. The latter is the reason why counterfeit goods are worth while business for those involved. In [...]

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Apple’s March 2nd iPad 2 Event

March 3, 2011 Apple Inc.

After months of speculations from various web sites: iLounge, Fast Company, 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable and The Unofficial Apple Weblog The day for Apple to review the punch line to their statement in the invitation is finally here. Come see what 2011 will be the year of. At 10:00 this morning (US Pacific Time) [...]

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iPad 2G on March 2nd [Updated]

February 24, 2011 iPad

Apple on Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 (US time) sent out an invitation to a March 2nd event in San Francisco, CA, USA. The tagline reads Come see what 2011 will be the year of. With graphics on the invitation implying the event will have something to do with the iPad. Therefore it is very lightly [...]

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Apple Hong Kong’s Chinese New Year ’11 One Day Deal

January 11, 2011 Apple Inc.

In the past Apple online store had held one day sales event for “Black Friday” (aka “Boxing Day”, the day after Christmas). Usually any other times Apple products are rarely discounted; unless it is through the Corporate or Education sites or refurbished items. So it is a bit surprising to receive a Sale event announcement [...]

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How to Ensure You Have a Clean iOS 4.2.x Upgrade?

November 23, 2010 iPad

This morning (Nov. 22 PDT US time) Apple made the latest version (v4.2.1) of iOS available through iTunes. It is one of the highly anticipated upgrade for the iPad and other iOS devices. Not only because this version brings features to the iPad that had been enjoyed by other iOS devices, it is also the [...]

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Triumph of HTML5

November 2, 2010 Apple Inc.

Over the past 3 years Apple Inc. has taken the heat on pushing the adoption of the W3C standard, HTML5, for all web based development. They have even been taken to court for not allowing competitor’s technology (Flash) on their platform (iOS). Recently to avoid any more blame for flaws in these 3rd party technologies, [...]

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Apple’s Hidden Agenda

August 23, 2010 Apple Inc.

A patent filing by Apple in February 2009 was made public last week. This patent is related to the “Systems and methods for identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device”. In the patent it details how Apple’s technology is capable of identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device. This unauthorized user of the electronic device [...]

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Purchasing Apple Products from Overseas?

July 27, 2010 Apple Inc.

Many people are tempted by the low cost of Apple products in Hong Kong compared to all other countries around the world, including USA. They are most attracted to the factory SIM-unlocked iPhones sold through official Apple resellers and Apple HK store online. So they are tempted to purchase one or more of these products [...]

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Porn Vote of Confidence

July 5, 2010 News

HTML5 has long been promoted by Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, etc. as the future for the web. Apple even went as far as not supporting Flash on its mobile platforms (iOS) to further promotes the use of HTML5 in web site development. Apple’s decision caused a major war of words between Adobe and Apple, [...]

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Micro-SIM Availability in Hong Kong

June 21, 2010 iPad

Recently you may have just purchased one of Apple’s latest gadgets, the iPad WiFi+3G, from the 9 countries officially selling them, or plans to get one of the iPhone 4 from either Canada, France and UK. This is because all iPad WiFi+3G (except the ones sold in Japan) and iPhone 4 sold in Canada, France, UK and Hong [...]

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Farmville Sending Users Away from Facebook

April 10, 2010 Software

Today I noticed the above message when trying to load the Farmville application within Facebook. Several weeks back the creator of Farmville, Zynga launched Farmville.com. At first I was surprised to see Zynga makes such a move; as if it is biting off the hand that feeds it. Then I looked at the reported 11 [...]

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