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Firetide Wireless Infrastructure Enables High School to Implement Campus-Wide iPad Learning

firetideWith the help of Firetide, a company described as the leading wireless infrastructure in the industry, Archbishop McCarthy High School in Florida has made the switch to campus-wide iPad-based learning.

By providing a secure, reliable and affordable wireless infrastructure, Firetide has helped the 1,500 student school to adopt a new educational process that is more motivational for students while giving teachers the opportunity to provide a more personal and structured level of instruction that is more helpful for long-term goal reaching.

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Apple’s Market Cap at $600 Billion – Will it Ever Get to 1 Trillion?

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With another 1% upward move, Apple stock hit a market capitalization of $600 billion just shy of 6 weeks after hitting the $500 billion milestone.

With this upward momentum, some analysts are starting to wonder if Apple really could hit the $1,000 per share / $1 trillion market cap that is being predicted for sometime over the next year. They certainly seem poised to make it, but does the current product offering have strong enough legs to take them there? Are they banking on the continued success of the current iPad and iPhone line-up?

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Height Adjustable iPad Stand Lets You Easily Tackle Hands Free Tasks

If you like to use your iPad to watch TV in the bathtub, or display cooking recipes in the kitchen, you may be interested in the new Z3 iPad stand from RATstands, which sturdily supports your iPad at several different angles, making it perfect for a range of tasks.

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Intel to Challenge iPad in Education Market with New Studybook Tablet

With the release of a lower cost iPad 2 and its iTunes U program, Apple’s been aiming to corner the educational market. The iPad’s popularity may give it an edge, but Apple isn’t without competition.

Google’s Chromebooks are also in the running for use in schools, and now there’s also a new entry from Intel, known as the Studybook.

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Tablet Market Expected to Grow 98% in 2012, iPad to Stay on Top

Gartner recently released a detailed data analysis and forecast for the four-year future of the tablet market. The research company has predicted that tablets purchases will increase by 98 percent this year thanks to the overwhelming success of Apple’s iPad.

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New iPads Already 10 Percent of Total iPad Population

It only took a weekend for Apple to sell more than three million of its new Retina-equipped iPads, and now, after just three weeks on the market, Apple’s iPad is responsible for nearly 10 percent of the total Pad web traffic on the internet.

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Padzilla ‘Too’ interactive Case

If you’ve ever wanted to play your iPad on a giant movie-style screen, Crunchy Logistics just might have a device for you. The company’s Padzilla Too video display incorporates both an Apple iPad and a Microsoft Kinect, and it runs on a screen that is 24 feet wide and 12 feet tall.

Just what do you do with a screen that large? You play Fruit Ninja, of course.

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PadGadget Daily App Deal – 19 iPad Apps on Sale

For today’s Daily Deal we’ve found 19 great apps to add to your iPad collection.  We have 12 productivity / entertainment apps and 7 game apps in today’s bundle.

We used our PadGadget Apps Tracker to find these great deals and we’ll continue to look for the best app deals as they pop-up. Some of these apps are up to 86% off, several are even free, so be sure to check them out because they are on sale for a limited time.

Check out all the sale apps after the break »

PadGadget Giveaway – Enter to Win a Pair of Middle School Confidential Codes

Middle school offers many challenges for the pre- and early teens in attendance.  Lucky for us parents, the folks at Electric Eggplant have two great Middle School Confidential apps to help teach our students everything they need to know to successfully maneuver their way through middle school.  We’ve reviewed both apps here on PadGadget and have gladly partnered with Electric Eggplant today to offer Be Confident in Who You Are and Real Friends vs. the Other Kind to our readers.

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Panasonic Enters Mobile Accessory Arena With External Battery Pack

Electronics giant Panasonic has decided to try its luck in the mobile device accessory market with the release of an all new external battery pack.

Its QE-QL301 is designed to share 10,260mAh of power with two USB devices at once. This means you can charge an iPad or an iPhone at the same time, or even two iPads, since it comes equipped with four times the power of a standard smartphone.

Panasonic plans to release a total of seven of these thin, sleek-looking battery packs, each with different features.

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Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion

This morning, many of us woke to the disappointing announcement that social networking giant Facebook had purchased photo sharing app Instagram for a huge pile of cash.

Just how much cash? A whopping $1 billion dollars, plus Facebook stock. Is this the end of Instagram as we know it?

Both Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom made statements to reassure Instagram users that Instagram will remain an independent entity.

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Apple Reaches 10% iPad and iPhone Penetration in Big Chinese Cities

A few weeks ago, Flurry Analytics published a study on China’s adoption of iOS and Android applications and discovered that by the end of 2011, the country ranked number two in application sessions behind the United States. Flurry calculated that China overtook the US in device activations by three percent this past March. Stenvall Skold & Company recently expanded on that study and calculated the iOS penetration rate, not including the iPod touch, in all Chinese provinces and municipalities.

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Brand Recognition, The iPad Has Officially Become a Household Name

Today, the Huffington Post reported that Apple is “on the verge of doing what few others have: change the English language.” It appears that the popularity of the iPad is quickly turning Apple’s gadget into a household name, used to refer generally to tablets.

You’ve probably used scotch tape, TiVoed a show, and Googled you own name. When you were a kid, you played with a yo-yo and you take aspirin for headaches. Each one of those words, including aspirin, was once a trademarked name and is now being used generically to describe something.

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Apple Edges a Bit Closer to Complete Cloud Access to iTunes Movies

Apple TVSoon after Apple announced the launch of the third-generation of its “hobby” gadget, Apple TV, it was discovered that movie studios like Fox and Universal would not be available through the company’s iCloud service. The two studios were not included in Apple’s lists of movies that could be purchased on a computer and then retrieved from another mobile device like the iPad or iPhone, or even downloaded to Apple TV.

Because of contractual arrangements, HBO has preexisting deals with studios that give them exclusivity windows. Today, iPodNN reported that HBO has negotiated a deal with movie studio Universal to make their movies available in the cloud.

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Join a Multiplayer Battle for Treasure in Bounty Bots

Bounty Bots is a multiplayer shoot ‘em up western style game, starring robots equipped with wild and zany weapons and powers. The goal in this game is to collect as many coins as possible, depositing them in safes and banks, while avoiding enemy fire and taking out other bots for bonus coins.

Since this is an online game, you will need a 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi connection in order to play. There is no single player mode, and you can’t play offline.

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