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Status Update #8 – The New iPad
Sunday March 11, 2012
Hosts: Jacob Bodnar and Jared Weseman

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STORIES
New iPad is Released
New iPad: Specs and information
Allotment of iPads for online sale, have sold out
Nvidia none too happy Apple claimed their chip was four times faster
Sources: Apple’s new iPad has 1GB of RAM
New iPad cost Apple $310 to make, 51% profit margin
Good News: Verizon’s iPad will have hot spot enabled, Bad News: AT&T will not
Sprint flavored iPad might be on the way this summer
Report: Amazon will introduce a 10.1 inch Kindle Fire in second half of 2012
Dell to release Windows 8 tablet at the first opportunity
Other News
DOJ warns Apple, Publishers that a lawsuit might be coming
Microsoft to allow some third party Metro Desktop apps
Mobile News
Nokia’s PureView technology is coming to Windows Phone! Hooray!
T-Mobile Exec: Industry needs to ditch subsidized phones
Quad-Core HTC One X passes FCC, but what carrier will nab it?
Instagram for Android shown off at SXSW
Social Media News
Head of Google+: Blame me for the lack of API
Gawker Report: Twitter ad sales healthy, but lost money in 2010, 2011
Gowalla is officially dead
Facebook’s plans for Gowalla
Major changes made in Facebook’s amended S1 filing
Facebook reveals 432 million mobile users, 13% of which never see web version
Tweet-A-Beer lets you tweet a beer to your friends, sort of
Quick Hits
HP readying competitor to Amazon’s cloud services
T-Mobile to debut unlimited any mobile-to-mobile minutes
Google looking to ditch Motorola’s set-top-box line
App Drawer
Jared: ESPN Bracket Bound App
Jacob: Pano

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