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10 NBA teams using iPad, 6 more teams are considering this season

by Tsukhiumong on April 10, 2011 · 0 comments

NBA teams are using the iPad for scouting and player development and more than half the teams are either using the Apple tablet or considering it.

With the record, 10 NBA teams (Wizards, Timberwolves, Hawks, Hornets, and Rockets + 5 more) are already using iPads, now 6 more teams are considering using the iPad next season.

Washington Wizards is first known NBA team to use the Apple tablet for team operations. Assistant coach Ryan Saunders describes their iPad use:

“We use it for everything. We put our whole playbook and rulebook on it… Our whole calendar is mapped out. Guys can know when buses are leaving, when planes are leaving.”

Minnesota Timberwolves provides players with expanded edit of opposing team game play on their iPads. Being lighter, iPad has an advantage over laptops:

“A lot of times guys can wake up, or on the airplane they can open their iPad, and see what’s coming up next in terms of personnel.”

Houston Rockets describes players are impressed with the Apple tablet:

“They think it’s amazing that you can give them all their minutes from the last 20 games and have it ready for them in less than an hour, and put it on an iPad.”

New Orleans Hornets uses 20-30 iPads. The team gets each night’s game on iPads, before players leave the locker room:

“As an organization, we try to use what’s best out there… We look at costs, but we’re trying to improve and make things more efficient.

Director of Basketball Operations for Atlanta Hawks, Mike McNeive:
“It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even bring a pen and a paper to the game anymore … I just make sure my iPad is charged 100 percent.”

People are saying that iPad 10 hours battery life for video, and iPad speed probably played a role the Apple tablet adoption too.

[Via]
http://www.cultofmac.com

Apple TV starting to ship in US

by Tsukhiumong on September 28, 2010 · 0 comments

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According to MacRumors, the new 2010 Apple TV is starting to ship. It was also reported that TiPb readers and along with readers of other sites are all getting their notification emails from Apple. For now, only “prepared to ship” notices has been out. But MacRumors is starting to see actual shipment notifications as well.

I guess the new Apple TV would be only for US as for now, may be the others internationally hope to see the shipment by last of September or by first week of October. Apple’s production machine is in full swing and Apple TV makes its global debut that week.

[Via- MacRumors ]

Funeral and inauguration side by side, amazing Microsoft.

by Sinha on September 12, 2010 · 0 comments

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Have you ever come across any incidence when you can see a funeral and an inauguration ceremony side by side? No, right! But Microsoft had done it for you people who haven’t had the chance.
Redmond campus saw feel like funeral ceremony for iPhone and BlackBerry flaunting with the crazy outfits, the workers made fake hearses for giant BlackBerry and iPhone devices .Though the main ceremony was Microsoft employees gathered there to celebrate the release of the Windows Phone 7, for that car were modified to include Windows Phone branding and claiming in the procession that they have buried the competition with Windows Phone 7 in the market soon.
Though seems funny but the real corporate is the way it is.
So folk, Window Phone 7 is coming on late October in Europe and November in US.

Thanks MacDailyNews.com

Apple, no contract offer for iPhone in the US

by Tsukhiumong on August 21, 2010 · 0 comments

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I always prefer device which provides better options so that I can switch to another network which offer better service but our comrade of iPhone 4 users in US seems to have lesser option without AT&T.

According to the Apple website, it appears like US users no longer have the option to purchase an iPhone at no commitment pricing. In the US, AT&T is the exclusive carrier. A lot of users prefer to purchase a phone at no commitment price and unlock it for use on T-Mobile. The AT&T websites still seems to be offering the no commitment price for the iPhone. Apparently you must purchase a no commitment iPhone in store. To be frank still I didn’t able to grasp what AT&T trying to convey through this.

AT&T states that they have not made any policy changes on their end so is that just the new reality for Apple in a post Jailbreakme.com world. There are so many factories offering unlocked iPhone 4 in most countries outside the US now and even you can buy online. In USA there is still a big concern about unlocked iPhone 4 because you still need AT&T carriers.

I guess very soon we can hear some change in AT&T policy towards its users. Sorry guys there are not so many options that your iPhone can be happy without AT&T.

http://applecontrol.com/apple-no-longer-offering-no-contract-pricing-for-iphone-in-the-us

I am a free-spirit with the iPad, nostalgia trickled!

by tABStaff on August 5, 2010 · 2 comments

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With the passage of time the heavy word ‘computer’ got smaller and smaller and along with the dwarfing of this oversized word computer which I am not able to pen down anymore laptops came into the picture, what was our reaction? this is it! You can’t make a laptop smaller than this perhaps we all were wrong because with the new magical invention iPad the amount of energy thrusted upon in the gizmo world has been breathtaking.

This iPad at its very launch set up a shocking recording of sales which revealed “A Sale in every 3-seconds” in US and even in UK iPad was sold in every 5-minutes. iPad came with a price of $450 and above. In the US alone 80 millions iPads were sold in a span of just 80 days in the month of june itself. You can observe that the iPad is even smaller than your normal diary notebook in terms of thickness, length and size altogether but it a work which is equal to a laptop, several notebooks, a house, an office and almost everything under the sun.

When the release of the iPad people all around have shown multiplied amazement for the product because of top engineered finishing, innovative feel and awesome friendliness. Who would have thought that one day we would be using this kind of smart technology and such a massive compression in a small tablet called the iPad.

iPad truly is a next-generation device. It is an ‘all in one’ device where you neither require a mouse nor keyboard but just showing the magic of your fingers on the screen. Moreover, It provides you a full screen view and also a motion sensor. It can easily fit anywhere, thanks to is sleek and slim feature along for the less number of kilos your need to carry.

The iPad comes with the Wi-Fi and 3G technology. It can be anyone and everyone, your best friend, your buddy to the loo, in a bedroom, kitchen, meeting place, game show, TV talk shows, during their flight and not only that even professional doctors, executives, business community and students and uniform groups (US and UK army) and the list goes on and on.

In someway or the other this gadget will surely bring in a ‘Vow-factor’ from you be it in a loo where none can hear the praise and appreciation but nonetheless, All thanks to the Apple team for this wonderful product which is like a gift and blessing to the people and everyone is enjoying and getting more personal with the iPad.

So are you one of them?

I can’t wait to learn about your reactions and comments, please drop in with you feel on this.

Pizza Hut’s US iPhone app generates $1 million in sales

by tABStaff on November 4, 2009 · 0 comments

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Pizza Hut’s US application for iPhone and iPod touch has surpassed $1 million in sales, generating sizeable income for the company.

Pizza Hut claims that the application is approaching one million downloads, but has yet to debut in the UK iTunes App Store.

The application offers users the ability to zoom in on a virtual fridge for the latest deals, find a local location and save favourite orders.

Bernard Acoca, senior director of digital marketing at Pizza Hut, Dallas, TX told Mobile Marketer: “We are extremely excited here about the explosive growth we’ve seen with our iPhone app since its launch 3 months ago, $1 million in sales is pretty substantial for an iPhone app.”

[Read more at macworld]