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iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display will be available in India starting December 7, Apple's authorised distribution partner Ingram Micro has announced via a press release. The distributor also confirmed that 16GB Wi-Fi iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display will be available for Rs. 35,900 and Rs. 28,900 and respectively. These prices are in line with what we had exclusively revealed around 3 weeks back. According to the information we received earlier, but not announced by the distributor yet, the 32GB, 64GB and 128GB iPad Air Wi-Fi only models will be priced at Rs. 42,900, Rs. 49,900 and Rs. 56,900 respectively. The 16GB iPad Air with cellular connectivity will be priced at Rs. 44,900. The 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models will be priced at Rs. 51,900, Rs. 58,900 and Rs. 65,900 respectively. Similarly, the 32GB, 64GB and 128GB iPad mini with Retina display Wi-Fi only models will be pr...

Apple extended its dominance in tablet computers in the second quarter, shipping nearly seven out of every 10 tablets, according to research firm   IHS iSuppli . Other tablet makers include   Amazon.com Inc , which said on Thursday that it had sold out of the Kindle Fire amid expectations of a new model soon.   A new  iPad  model came out a few weeks before the April-June quarter began. Apple's 69.6 per cent share in the April-June quarter is up from about 58 per cent in the first quarter. It's the highest since the first quarter of last year, when Apple had 70 per cent in a market with fewer competitors then.  Here are the top five manufacturers of  tablets  in the second quarter, as released by IHS iSuppli:  1. -> Apple Inc , maker of the iPad, 17 million shipped worldwide, 69.6 per cent share  2. -> Samsung Electronics  Co, maker of Galaxy line, 2.3 million, 9.2 per cent.  3. ->...

Apple will unveil a new, smaller version of its wildly popular iPad in Oct after the release of the latest version of its iPhone next month Apple will unveil a new, smaller version of its wildly popular iPad in October after the release of the latest version of its iPhone next month, the All Things Digital website reported on Sunday. "First comes the latest iteration of the tech giant's hugely popular smartphone, which will be unveiled at an as yet unannounced event on September 12," the website said. "Only after the next-generation iPhone is out the door and on sale will Apple announce the smaller iPad it's been working on," it said. "That device, which is expected to have a display of less than eight inches (20 centimeters), will be uncrated at a second special event, which sources say is currently scheduled for October." The 10-inch iPad has long dominated the tablet market, but faces a growing challenge from smaller models lik...

Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted "horrible problems" in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at the penultimate performance in Washington of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," monologist Mike Daisey's controversial two-hour expose of Apple's labor conditions in China. In a post-performance dialogue with Daisey and audience members, Wozniak held forth on topics as varied as public education (he once did a stint as a school teacher) and reality TV (having appeared on "Dancing with the Stars"). But the engineering wizard behind the progenitor of today's personal computer, the Apple II, was most outspoken on the shift away from hard disks towards uploading data into remote servers, known as cloud computing. "I really worry about everything going to the cloud," he said. "I think it's going to be horrendous. I think ther...

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