Steve Jobs bows out gracefully as Apple CEO

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While Apple product announcements and rollouts are almost always shrouded in secrecy causing the rumor mill to constantly remain intensively active, one thing is for sure; there was no secret about the challenging health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

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It’s Mac to School time, folks!

Well, it’s that time again when Summer is nearing an end and it’s time to get back to school, or

MactoSchoolrather Mac to School. And if you’re ready to deck out your dorm with new Apple gear, now is a great time to do it, before school starts. Now getting a jump-start to avoid the rush is certainly never a bad idea, but there are a few more good compelling reasons to act, especially up you are looking at upgrading existing equipment.

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Social Media magazine in print, really?

Since when is the world’s first printed anything considered something novel and progressive in t

SocialMediaMonthlyoday’s world of wireless devices, apps, e-book readers and the trend towards everything green? Well it seems that a Washington DC-based technology group, The Cool Blue Company LLC , think so.   The Social Media Monthly, their magazine dedicated to the exploration of social media and its evolving technologies, has added a printed format.

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Greg talks about BlackBerry vs iPhone on QR77, 630CHED

CHQR LogoQR77 caught wind of my Troy Media article on Apple iMessage being a wake-up call for BlackBerry and asked me to chime in on The Rob Breakenridge show on Friday Evening, June 10th at 10:30PM.   You can listen to the podcast here: It will likely only be there for a week or two.   http://emedia.qr77.com/Podcasts/1022/robbreakenridgepodcastjune10-4.mp3

Apple iMessage a real wake-up call for BlackBerry

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2011/ Troy Media/ – At the opening keynote of the World Wide Developer, Conference in San Francisco earlier this week, Apple previewed iOS 5, its latest update to the operating system that runs on iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.  READ FULL ARTICLE AT TROYMEDIA

Apple WOWS WWDC 2011 Audience with Mac OS X Lion

As Steve Jobs took the stage to kick off the opening keynote for the 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, California, the capacity audience welcomed Apple’s CEO with a great roar of appreciation.  And while some thought we might see a new or updated piece of hardware come about, Jobs, Phil Schiller, SVP Worldwide Product Marketing, Craig Federighi, VP OS X Software and Scott Forstall, SVP iOS Software, kept the audience extremely engaged talking strictly about software.

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Epsilon hacked! Am I still being phished?

So I received an email, supposedly from BestBuy.ca, an excerpt shown above, alerting me to the fact that my name and e-mail address have been exposed by “unauthorized entry” into their system. It’s not Best Buy’s system, but rather Epsilon’s, a company who sends out e-mail on Best Buy’s behalf.

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Dressing Up Your iPad 2

20110330 Ipad Dressup 01With the new and improved iPad 2 hitting the Canadian market, it opens the doors to some real cool and innovative accessories. And whether your interests lay in fun, fashion or just good old solid protection, there’s nothing more important than keeping your new iPad 2 well-dressed for any occasion.  READ MORE AT G4 Canada

Apple turns 35 today

Apple turns 35 today. Yes, only 35 and that’s no April fools joke. The incredible and continuing journey began on April 1st, 1976 in of all places, Steve Jobs’ garage in Cupertino California. The actual corporation we know today as Apple Inc., was officially incorporated back in 1977 as Apple Computer Inc.

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Apple’s WWDC 2011 Rock-Star event sold out

Each year, 5000+ Apple developers make the pilgrimage to the five-day Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West in San Francisco. It’s a true geek-week, filled with over 100 technical sessions many digging deep down right to the code level.  But you’d think that this event was a rock concert with the $1,599 US tickets for the June 6-10 event, open only to registered  Apple developers,  selling out in less than a day.

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