Jan 26, 8:44 AM EST Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Technology By Jerome Santos 01/25/19 AT 11:35 PM New postings of Apple products were seen among filings for the Eurasian Economic Comission (EEC). These four new products could potentially be the 2019 iPad and the iPad Mini 5. Here’s what we know about this new development from Apple.According to Apple Insider’s report, the new listings from the EEC are coded as specific model numbers from Apple, and it is not exactly known which one is the 2019 iPad or the iPad Mini 5. So far, the models announced were coded as A2123, A2124, A2133, A2152, A2153, and A2154. The sequential numbering of some devices could hint at the same device but different offerings similar to how Apple releases some versions of an iPhone, according to its built-in storage. The new devices are expected to be sold in Russia soon. AppleInsider’s report said that the new devices will be … [Read more...] about 2019 Apple iPad, iPad Mini 5 Release Date Imminent? New Filings Suggest Close Launch
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Amazon’s Fire HD 10 a better choice than iPad for newbies
Joy left her Kindle Fire tablet in the gym. At first we thought it was somewhere around the apartment, but it never turned up. So she decided to bite the bullet and buy Amazon's Fire HD 10. It's $150 and looks as good as an iPad for less than half the price. She got it in blue. She knew the old one had been stolen as soon as she turned on the new one; now there she had one Portuguese and two Chinese dictionaries. Some circumstantial evidence is pretty suspicious. So she went to the "Manage your Kindle" section of Amazon and de-registered the old device. The Kindle Fire HD 10 and HD 8 come with Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant. It can do tons of things: play music, show a movie, tell you the weather, read a book aloud, etc. If you say, "Alexa, switch to 'show' mode," you get even more options. You can see the lyrics as a song is sung. We told Alexa to "show rock 'n' roll playlists." When we played "Jailhouse Rock," the screen showed Elvis Presley's face with the lyrics floating by. When … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Fire HD 10 a better choice than iPad for newbies
From iPads to charcuterie, how realtors woo buyers to an open house
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By Linda Nguyen The Canadian Press Thu., Jan. 10, 2019 Realtor Ash Alles wanted to throw an open house to remember. So, he catered a food truck. “Food is what drives people in,” said Alles, a real estate agent at Sutton Group Summit Realty in Mississauga, Ont. “We’re trying to make it an event, as opposed to a traditional open house.” The open house at the townhouse in Burlington, Ont., west of Toronto, last May drew in more than 200 people over four hours on a sunny Sunday afternoon. There were free tacos, music, and people were encouraged to bring their babies and dogs along. Although the eventual buyer wasn’t at the open house, billed as a “Cinco de Mayo Neighbourhood Fiesta,” Alles still considered the party a success. Article Continued Below So much so that since the spring, he has hired a food truck for five other open houses. Alles spends about $5,000 (U.S.) out of pocket each time for the food truck, much … [Read more...] about From iPads to charcuterie, how realtors woo buyers to an open house
Democrat-Gazette’s iPad program showing promise, publisher says
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. speaks with members of the Pine Bluff Downtown Rotary Club at the Pine Bluff Country Club on Tuesday. - Photo by Barry Arthur PINE BLUFF -- In what began last March as an experimental program in the farthermost reaches of the state, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is beginning to see promise of success, the newspaper's publisher, Walter Hussman, said Tuesday. Home delivery of the newspaper in Mississippi County, in the state's northeast corner, became too costly more than a year ago, Hussman told a gathering of about 30 people at a Pine Bluff Rotary Club meeting Tuesday. So the Democrat-Gazette offered to provide each subscriber in the county an Apple iPad tablet computer to download a digital replica of each day's printed edition if the subscribers would continue to pay their existing bills. The iPad program is doing very well, Hussman said. The Democrat-Gazette has introduced the program in 25 counties, with Jefferson and … [Read more...] about Democrat-Gazette’s iPad program showing promise, publisher says
Bendgate: Why some iPad Pros are bent, and what Apple is doing about it
The iPad Pro 2018 is a beautiful device–a thin, perfectly flat slab. Except it’s not perfectly flat in some cases due to a defect in the manufacturing process. iPad “bendgate” started in the forums of popular Apple fanboy site MacRumors and on social media. A number of users claimed that their new iPad Pros came bent right out of the box. Here is a photo of how this looks by MacRumors forum user MacDonaldTrump, one of the people who posted about the problem: MacDonaldTrump wondered if “there is a bad batch, or some slipped through quality checks.” Other users speculated if it could be related to the flimsy structure of the new iPad, demonstrated by the bending test below, in which the pressure of two thumbs splits the device in two: One person wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook about the problem, and Cook reportedly forwarded the email to Apple’s vice president of hardware engineering Dan Riccio. In his reply to the user, Riccio tacitly … [Read more...] about Bendgate: Why some iPad Pros are bent, and what Apple is doing about it