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Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps, Planning “Grand Opening” of iPad App Store

Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers.
“iPad will begin shipping soon and your opportunity to be part of the grand opening of the iPad App Store starts today,” the email says.
There’s no details about when the store’s grand [...]

Security Expert: “Mac OS X Is Safer, But Less Secure”

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Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.
He says OS X is full of security holes. There are lots more than in Windows, he claims.
And yet: OS X is a safer system to use. Why? Because, in the words [...]

Apple Devotes Entire Home Page To Jerome York Obituary

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If ever you needed a sign that Apple was a different kind of technology company, this is it.
What other computer manufacturer would remove its top-selling, hype-inducing, industry-altering new product from the prime spot on its website home page, and replace it with an obituary to an investor?
This is one of those “Here’s to the [...]

Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom

Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you.
The half-hour series called “iCon” is billed by the presser as “a savage satire centering on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed.”
Making sure the barbs prick will be the [...]

An Apple Store in Second Life

The Apple Store in Second Life

There’s an Apple retail store in the Second Life virtual world that sells iPods, iMacs and even Newtons.

Trent Lapinski at AppleXnet reports:

“Even in an online world the allure of an iPod and those sexy white earbuds exists. Much like the Apple Store down the street, there is an user created Apple Store in the online world of SecondLife. At the store one can purchase wannabe Macs that display video, as well as iPods, or even a Newton.”

Run by Linden Labs, Second Life is a massive 3-D virtual world filled with buildings and objects built by its “residents.” Its “Linden dollar” economy is worth about $2 million a month, according to Wikipedia.

Inside the Apple Store in Second Life

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    Lapinski — not Lapinski. I ski not sky. :-p

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