There has been a lot of hype about the rumors surrounding the upcoming Apple Tablet recently. It seems that everyday, more rumors emerge. It started with a domain that Apple recently purchased called iSlate.com, then another one was later found, iGuide.com. Then a statement was leaked that Apple wanted App developers to prepare full-screen (full-resolution) apps to show in the upcoming (and now confirmed) January 26th media event. Well, it looks like now we have one more piece in the rumor puzzle, that “practically confirms” the iTablet, iSlate, or iGuide will be released in the coming month.

[UPDATE AT END] It wasn’t long ago that we heard AT&T’s CEO admonish iPhone users that live in areas like New York and San Francisco, to ease up on phone usage. He asked them to not use as much data despite the fact that they had unlimited data plans and also payed a $30 premium for using an iPhone’s data plan.

Many consumer’s weren’t so fond of that, neither were they fond of the “threats” that the said CEO eluded to in his press release (taking away of privileges, adding fees, etc.). This caused such an uproar that many consumers actually planned an attack on the AT&T network by overloading it to the point that it falls.

Now AT&T has a new approach; Deny new customers access to this problematic device.

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Very sorry, but despite the promised article today for the “Timeline of an Icon” series… We won’t be posting any new articles today. The hope was that we would just auto-post one, but that never happened.
The daily mac news will also be offline today. It is christmas eve, have a great time with your family. Thanks for your support.

This is the second article in our new series counting down to the new year. In this series we will take a look at the history of Apple, from the days of working in a garage until today. Visit us each day for the latest article in this series.

Yesterday we looked at who the founders of Apple were, before Apple existed. Both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs (read yesterday’s article here). Most of us recognize these two as the co-founders of Apple. Few people realize however, that a third partner was also in the mix, Ronald Wayne.

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I am somewhat of a hardcore outdoorsman myself. Then again, I can really be a techie sometimes too. So whenever I can find a way to bridge this gap, I get pretty excited. My favorite outdoor brand happens to be The North Face. That being said, I am really excited today to announce an iPod friendly jacket made by The North Face.

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What? Microsoft Office is forbidden? Those were the exact words today of a panel of U.S. Federal Appeals Court judges. Sometimes these stories almost seem too weird to be true, “somehow Microsoft will find a way out of it”, we often think to ourselves. But I don’t think that will be the case here, at least not initially. Office will surely come back in a year or so, once they have removed all of the patent violations, but we won’t see it in stores for the better part of 2010.

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This is the first article in our new series counting down to the new year. In this series we will take a look at the history of Apple, from the days of working in a garage until today. Visit us each day for the latest article in this series.

This is the commencement of a series of articles about how the culture of Apple came to be. To tell this story, we don’t want to leave out any details. The point of this series, is to divulge some facts that we don’t already know. Most of us know how it starts, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start making the Apple I by hand, in Steve Jobs’ garage. Like any story, the best place to start is the beginning, but we already know that, so let’s go back farther.

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Let’s reflect. How many mobile devices do you own (i.e. iPods, iPhones, Smartphones, tablet computers, netbooks, wireless broadband devices, etc.)?

How many mobile devices did you own last year?

How many will you likely own next year?

For most of us, this number was small to non-exsistant when we thought about last year’s number, pretty high for this year, and probably higher for next year. The number of mobile devices on the market were just so few. We didn’t have iPhones yet, the mass production of internet-ready smartphones hadn’t been released yet, our iPods only played music (the lucky ones among us benefited from videos too), and our cell phone carriers used to only make phone calls and relay text messages. Now all that has changed. We have seen the introduction of the iPhone, numerous cell phone modems, iPods that surf the net, and even netbooks sold by our wireless carriers for only $99!

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Sadly, the news of Steve Job’s loss in the TIME Magazine race for “person of the year” has recently emerged, but luckily we have a nice bandaid to push us through the pain. Job’s was just rated by Harvard Business Review as “The Best Preforming CEO in the World”. This prestigious award took into account nearly 2,000 CEOs from 48 nationalities.

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[Updated 12/19/09  17:39 GMT At End of Article] – Until recently, mac users have been forced to wait, when it comes to accessing mobile broadband through a cell phone carrier like Sprint or Verizon. It had nothing to do with rules or regulations, only that most of the devices required to access this service were incompatible with Macs. This past summer both companies released a cool gadget called the Mi-Fi, which would convert this cell phone data signal into a wi-fi signal that up to 5 devices could share. That was cool, but there were still no traditional devices that worked with mac… Until today.

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