Apple's iPad delayed, comes to Canada late April

Apple  announced that its iPad tablet will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. This confirms reports that supply of the much anticipated iPad has fallen short of expectations.

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iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold

Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com), the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store.

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Apple releases Aperture 3 - Merges simplicity with performance

Simplicity of iPhoto in a pro-level photo editing and management appApple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organize large photo libraries. As any photographer know, we amass a large amount of photos through the year and managing these gets more challenging as time goes by. Aperture 3 simplifies this process in a variety of ways.

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National Gallery of Canada visitors able to flip through fragile art books thanks to HP TouchSmart technology

HP's TouchSmart technology helps us interact with rare documents and art like never before

 Visitors of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa will be able to browse and appreciate rare historical art books that are too fragile to touch, as a result of a new collaboration between the National Gallery of Canada and HP Canada.

Thanks to interactive HP TouchSmart technology, viewers will be able to “flip through” electronic versions of the books on a widescreen display with a multi-touch enabled screen, while the original works remain safely protected in a display case. The NGC is the first major cultural institution in Canada to partner with HP to make art more accessible through interactive displays. 

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