Thursday, March 29, 2012

Tech Article 3/30


Half of U.S.households own at least one Apple product


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The overall ownership rate is 1.6 Apple products per American household, according to a new survey.

     Over half of the households in the country at least has one Apple product. On the 21st century Apple was in rough shape and it avoided bankruptcy. According to CNBC's All-American Economic Survey 51% of the U.S holds at least one Apple product. Both Republics and Democrats like Apple products equally. Although Democrats would like to buy more products soon. If you have kids the percentage of having a Apple household is 61% and if you don't it's 48%. 

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Tech Article 3/16


Amazon to offer $10 gift cards for $5

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amazon local deal 

     On Tuesday Amazon will sell a $10 gift card to its site for half the price. Its to boost customer interest in the nine month Amazon Local service. They will lose money in the deal, but they think it's worth it. January 2011 Amazon ran a similar deal on LivingSocial, a month after it invested $175 million in daily deal sites. LivingSocial  
sold almost 1.4 million of $10-for-$20 gift cards. George won't reveal how many gift cards their handing out  on Tuesday or any stats about it. The service has expanded to 90 cities in 26 states and Washington D.C.
  


Thursday, March 1, 2012

Tech Article 3/1

The curious case of the missing iPad 3 home button

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   Some readers spotted that there wasn't a home button on the iPad 3. If you looked at the article it's obviously an iPad 2 on it's side. It is also interesting because there are rumors saying that Apple is ditching the home button for the iPad. Using Siri on the iPhone 4s, users hold it down to for a few seconds to ask it a question or if they need help. If Siri makes it to iOS devices it will be hard to get rid of. With the rumors about the missing home button for he iPad it was started around late last year. 

Where's the home button?

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