Apple Cards can send real greeting cards from your iPhone for $4.99

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Last week's announcement that Apple is ready to revolutionize textbook publishing with the iPad is quite exciting. iPhone and iPod Touch users can take solace in knowing that they can now create and send greeting cards on their devices to anywhere in the world for $4.99 courtesy of the Cards app. Could this revolutionize the Greeting Card business?

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Apple eyes Education Publishing with iBooks 2 release

Updated on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 2:15PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple today announced iBooks 2 for the iPad, iTunes U for educators and the iBooks Author bookdesign Mac App at an event held in New York's iconic Guggenheim Museum. Focusing on the education market, an area that has long been important to Apple's core, the new system aims to simplify the authorship of textbooks as well as how information is displayed and accessed through the iPad's multi-touch interface.

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The Apple Beat: First gen iPod Nanos replaced with latest model, Apple wins infringement case against HTC

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple recalled its first generation clickwheel iPod nanos around a month ago due to battery overheating issues. It seems that they are running out of replacement refurb or new units so they are instead shipping users in the program the latest touch-enabled version of the iPod Nano. That is, iff the serial numbers are to be believed.

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iTunes Match now available in Canada, $27.99 to qualify 25,000 songs from other sources

Thought of as the general amnesty for folks who have songs in their music collections that may have been acquired from dubious means and a good way to get better quality audio, iTunes Match is finally available to Canadian users.

Starting today, iTunes Match is available in Canada.  iTunes Match allows you stream and store ALL of your songs to any of your devices, not just your purchased iTunes music. TV purchase re-downloads and TV purchasing via Apple TV is also now available.

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