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How useful is an iPad?
This is no plasticky toy - it's solid, sleek and slick, yet also very thin. And the screen looks lovely.
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Apple, iPhone 4 - is this surreal or what?
The whole iPhone 4 launch in New Zealand has descended into a surreal mix of blame and outright confusion.
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iPad apps that you need
You can browse the web, send emails, listen to music and watch films but the iPad is a powerful computer. What else can you do with it?
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How many Macs?
Apple haters might take pleasure in the fact that it's costing the company about NZ$244 million to give out thousands of iPhone buyers free bumper cases.
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Antennagate - real drama or media beat-up?
Have you heard? iPhone 4 has a reception issue when you hold the phone a certain way.
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Apple apologises for iPhone problems 'we're not perfect'
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apologised to iPhone 4 buyers about its reception issues and offered free cases to help rectify the problem.
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Mac training in a box
Macs are easy to use, so everyone says, and indeed, that's how I found them when a mate introduced me to them back at the beginning of 1988.
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Could Apple's first mistake come back to haunt it?
Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.
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iPhone 4 - it's not that bad
There's always a backlash that gets picked up by the legions of Apple haters who gleefully spread negative stories far and wide, writes Mark Webster.
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Apple customers fall victim to app scam hacker
'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.
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Apple-centric conference announced for Auckland
CreativeTech is an Apple-centric conference concept, and the very first one is taking place in September.
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Review: Sonos S5 ZonePlayer
Since it launched its first multi-zone network music system way back in 2004, Sonos has pretty much set the benchmark.
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Apple's iOS4 is out - and it's free
Apple's mobile operating system, iOS4, is now available through iTunes for iPhone and iPod Touch - iPad users will have to wait.
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Apple chest-beating
People called Apple a flash in the pan - but Flash is on the way out and Microsoft just got passed by Apple in market capitalisation.
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iPadding - the cost of cutting edge cool
How much will the iPad cost in New Zealand? Still no idea, but it might pay to butter up the bank manager now.
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Bentley Mulsanne - ultimate luxury at 296km/h
Bentley's stunning new Mulsanne will cost well-heeled Kiwis in the "low $600,000s" range when it goes on sale here.
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iPad: Manual not included
The iPad doesn't come with instructions - and it's not the only gadget to do so. Are we losing our curiosity about how technology works?
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New tricks for Wired Dog
It's not easy becoming an Apple Reseller in New Zealand, writes Mark Webster.