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Here’s the latest soon to be gigantically viral iPad-related video clip – Chinese pianist Lang Lang walked onstage in San Francisco to perform the encore playing Flight Of The Bumblebee on an iPad.See why the iPad is going to be such a big deal yet? It’s like we’ve always said – success depends upon the apps, so get thinking…

Via: Music Ally

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Apple has just recently updated their iPad Guided Tours page to display new tours for Maps and the App Store. Apple also went ahead and published these new videos to their YouTube Channel. We wonder why it took Apple this long to post tours for these essential iPad Apps. Maybe they were waiting for a more populated iPad App Store before showing it off on video. 

If true, this rumor would blow away pre-released iPhones or anything else this year by a long shot.  The Evening Standard is reporting that Apple is in talks to buy the Cambridge UK based processor designer, ARM  for $8 billion. That is less than one fifth of Apple’s cash and short term holdings of over $40 Billion.

ARM’s stock price was up 8.1 points on the news.  Apple uses ARM chips in iPods, iPhones and its new A4 chips inside its iPad.

Apple buying ARM would profoundly change the technology industry as a whole.  Just about every single mobile device smaller than a Netbook uses ARM chips.  That includes Nokias, Blackberries, Microsoft phones, Android phones from Motorola and HTC a lot of routers, hard drives, cars, Sony PSPs NintendoDS…and that is the begining.  There is an ARM chip for every human being on earth, many times more than Intel’s footprint.

The deal would also have to clear government regulatory approval in the US and abroad, which might be tricky.

ARM was originally founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology. So this would be a homecoming of sorts. via Macrumors.

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We never saw this coming… actually working, but from this video, Android seems like it’s a go by the jailbreak community. It’s obviously in an early Alpha stage as demonstrated in the video, but hopefully we will be able to land our anxious hands on it soon.

via Gizmodo. 

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Apple has introduced its third new iPhone ad this week, Family Man.

The new ad follows the introduction of two more clips, Dog Lover and Backpacker earlier this week.

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Apple has grown a whole new market with the introduction of the iPad – medical. This morning we learn a California hospital has ordered 100 iPads for use around the centre.

With its ten-hour battery life, Kaweah Delta hospital

Denver police have released surveillance video showing the widely-reported iPad theft in which robbers seriously damaged the finger of the victim while ripping him off.

The attack took place on Monday when Jordan collected the iPad from a Denver Apple Store for a co-worker. He was leaving the mall with the bag wrapped around his hand when the thief struck, seizing the bag with such force victim, Bill Jordan, saw his finger seriously torn.

“I saw just a bone, all the skin and tendons and everything were off,” Jordan told CBS affiliate KCNC.

“The film shows them walking right behind me down the stairs as I was going out the store,” Jordan explained.

Metro Denver Crimestoppers is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading the capture and conviction of the suspects.

Adobe is basically saying they’ve given up on Apple’s iPhoneOS products. Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, Mike Chambers lays out the bad news for Flash developers who’d want an easy way to port their apps to iPhone. 

While CS5 will still export for the current iPhone, they are warning developers that Apple will probably pull their “100+ apps already built in Flash”from the App Store at some point in the future and, most importantly, Adobe have suspended all investments in Flash CS5’s iPhone App export functionality.

What’s interesting is Chambers says they are going to learn from their experience on the iPhone and put their energy behind Android phones and tablets.   He’s excited about Android.  But Is Google excited about Flash?  Remember, it was Youtube that went to H.264-encoded MP4s (and made lack of Flash on the iPhone that much more bearable).  That wasn’t because Google was head over heals for depending on Flash and their technology.

At this point in time, with Google being the underdog in the field, the Android folk are probably looking for differentiators to Apple’s dominant iPhone platform.  Flash is definitely different and brings with it hundreds of thousands of ready-built apps.  Plus, it is better to have friends in the industry rather than enemies.  Speaking of which, no recent Adobe blog post would be complete without a jab at Apple:

To be clear, during the entire development cycle of Flash CS5, the feature complied with Apple