• Ipad -- PCU -- Personal Computer Units
• Great for Email, web surfing, e-reading, gaming
• Current Apple stock price is $542 a share
• Tweeting is great on the iPad
• Redifining the category that Apple created
• Photo does not show home button… Button is still there
• Retina Display 2048x1536 resolution.  3.1 million pixels
• 264 ppi, 10 inch screen, expected to be held at 15 inches away.
• 44% better color saturation
• A5x quad-core graphics designed for Retina display
• iSight camera
• 5-megapixel backside iluminated sensor, 5-element lense, ir filter and ISP built into the A5x chip
• Auto-exposure, auto-focus and white balance, face detection
• HD video recording 1080p, temporal noise reduction
• Software stabilization
• Voice dictation
• New button on keyboard, its a microphone
• 4g LTE
• iPad 2 has 3.1mbps on EV-DO, 7.2 on HSPA
• AT&T LTE
• Verizon LTE
• 3G world wide roaming coverage
• iPad can also be a hotspot if the carrier supports it
• Battery life: 10 hours, 9 hours on 4g!
• 9.4mm thin, 1.4 lbs
• $499 for 16gb wifi, $599, $699
• $629,$729, $829
• Available March 16th, pre-orders start today
• namco demo -- Flight simulator -- Sky Gamblers -- Launches later this month
• Autodesk -- Sketchbook Ink -- Chris Cheung -- Available April
• EPIC games -- Infinity Blade
• iWork -- $9.99 each, free upgrade if already owned
• Garage Band now has Smart Strings, a Note editor
• iMovie updated
• iPhoto for iPad -- edit and display of photos updated
• New gestures, effects -- Brushes, Photo Beaming, Photo Journals
• App is able to support up to 19 megapixel photos
• Geotags also have a weather icon to tell what the weather was like when the photo was taken
• iPad 2 is now $399 for 16gb wifi only
• The new iPad -- Current name…

• Apple Tv available March 16th $99
• Apple Tv 1080p support
• Itunes playlist from iCloud
• Photos are pushed directly, from your phone automatically
• Third party apps are easier to get to

• Goalzero -- Solar power
• Ford Fusion 2012 plug in hybrid -- 100MPG
• HeroHD -- Hd Cameras
• Liquid Image -- HD Cameras
• Contour -- HD Cameras
• Nest -- Thermostat $249
• WinWatch -- Apps on your watch, works with your droid $299
• Power2u -- Plug with USB ports
• SpareOne -- Emergency phone -- 10 hours talk time, last 15 years
• bluetooth sound -- freedomMic -- Scoche
• Mophie -- Battery case for your iPhone -- $80
• One laptop per child -- $100 -- Gave 2.5 million laptops to kids in 3rd world countries
• Crankable -- Rechargeable. OLPC
• laptop.org
• Mophie -- Battery pack for the iPhone, and iPad via the Juice pack
• SkunkJuice -- Earbuds -- Magnetically share the same audio source
• Ozaki -- PTZ wifi camera for iPad, iPhone $399 MSRP

• Apple: “Lets talk iPhone” event begins today at 10:00am PST.
  

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• Tim Cook appears on stage wearing jeans. The event takes place in Apples town hall.  Apples store images has the Sprint logo on it.
• 250 million IOS devices sold
• 500 thousands apps in the App Store
• 140 thousand iPad specific apps
• Scott Forestall talking now:
• Actual postcards mailed for $2.99 in the U.S. from your iPhone
• Notifications, pull downs, text messages, calendar, mail like Android phones now
• Twitter messaging, iMessage, location based reminders
• Auto focus, without tapping on screen.
• Photo editing
• Find my friends
• IOS 5 and iCloud will be available October 12th 
• Watch / pedometer, track you runs without sensor
• 16 new watch faces -- Nano 8gb version
• ipod touch can use imessage, icloud, comes in white now 8gb $199
• And now, the next iphone -- 55 minutes in…
• iPhone 4s, looks like the 4
• a5 chip, ARM, 7x faster graphics, unreal engine, dual core cpu
• infinity blade2 release 12/1/11
• two antennas, can auto switch if held wrong
• No 4g data, HSDPA, world phone, CDMA, GSM.  We think this is faster.
• 8 Mega pixel sensor for the camera 3264 x 2448
• Backside illumination (BSI)
• 43% faster capture
• f.24 aperture
• Siri -- voice assistant with speech, tells you where to eat, set alarm clock
• Reminders / calendar events
• Phone comes in white
• Available Oct 14th, $19916gb , $299 32gb , $399 64gb

Changes to Facebook
Timeline -- Events in your life
Blog that makes it self
Filters -- Timeline views -- Photos timeline view
Creating catagories
Map view -- Show where you were on a map based on time
Content based on apps you use (netflix, cooking etc)
Running app -- tracks your run
Sumerizes things for you
Privacy button on each entry (public / private etc)
Like a book / read a book
Like a movie / watch a movie
Like a song / Listen to a song
Ticker is a lightweight streem of everything going on around you.
Share a post -- Goes into news feed
Add a ticker, doesn’t go into news feed.

Open Graph
Connect to anything you want anyway you want.
Communication / Games / Media / Lifestyle
A new class of apps
Add activity to your timeline without the popups to share
Spotify -- Music service -- Tracks every song you listen to
Realtime serendipity
Play song from the timeline from a friend
Discover music through your friends
Finding Patterns
Captures all your activities into facebook

Have a tough time reading the terms of use agreements?  Why not listen to them instead.  You may find Richard Dryfus’s reading a bit amuzing.

Listen here on Cnet

What is Steve Jobs planning now?  His legacy office?  Check it out here at WSJ

Apple holds conference on IOS 5.0 and OS x Lion

• Your devices no longer require a computer
• Data is synced in the iCloud
• Over the air updates -- Delta
• Keyboard with your thumbs
• Air Play
• iMessage -- Instant messenger
• Calendar -- Shared appointments
• email -- Rich text, improved search, drag contacts
• Music, photos, documents all are automatically synced to the  iCloud
• Photos -- Easy access to camera app, edit your photo from the app.  Use of the volume buttons to take photos.
• Mobile me is now free
• Enterprise support for data encryption
• You can see all your purchases from your devices
• Incremental backup of documents (application controlled)
• Notification Center
• iMessage
• Newsstand
• Reminders
• Twitter
• Camera
• Photos
• Safari -- Tabs
• PC Free
• Mail
• Calendar
• Game Center
• Wi-Fi SyncMultitasking Gestures for iPad
• AirPlay Mirroring for iPad 2
• Accessibility
• Compatible with iPhone 3GS / 4
• iPod touch 3rd and 4th Generation
• iPad and iPad2

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Apple has released an APP store for the MAC OS.  What about the PC.  There are talks about getting one.  However, there are some pretty cool alternatives:

1. Allmyapps (my favorite)
2. Google Apps
3. Amazon Apps for Droid

Allmyapps

Are you tired of paying for your land line and want to know what the alternatives are?

You have several technologies to choose from.  Cellular, Satellite, Voip, Ham Radio, CB Radio, Walkie Talkies.

I will be covering VOIP -- Voice over Internet protocol. With this technology, you can get better than Land Line quality phone calls.  The main requirements for this technology is access to the internet, decent bandwidth, and Voip software and or hardware.  Things to consider before getting rid of your land line.  Does it support 911 location calls?  Do your lenders or other financial institutions require a land line to identify who you are?

• Skype -- Computer and smartphone -- Free video calls
• Magic Jack -- Computer only -- Flat fee of $20 a year, unlimited calls
• Net Talk Duo -- Computer video calls, no computer needed, just access to the Internet via an Ethernet port
• Vonage -- No computer, voice only, $15 month
• Ooma -- $200 for hardware, free phone calls for life
• Cisco Voip -- Business class high end
• Fonality -- Business class high end

What did CES bring to us this year?  Here are just a few reviews of what I was able to see at CES:

View my CES Videos on Youtube

• Motorola
• Nvidia -- Tegra CPU for tablets and cell phones
• Intel
• Verizon 4g Phones and tablets
• Windows Phone
• 3D TV
• Hollagram