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Samsung takes a hornlike countenance at its iPad competitors and comes up short. Elsewhere, Apple is backwards at the bargaining plateau with music labels and, despite its prizewinning efforts, Microsoft is late to the paper game. The remainders for Friday, March 4, 2011 are correct on time.

Samsung exec: Our paper is ‘inadequate’ (CNN)

At small one of Apple’s competitors has ostensibly taken Steve Jobs’s words to heart. Samsung chief Lee Don-Joo described the company’s sociable 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab as “inadequate” in reddened of the newly declared iPad 2. The company had designed to make the 10.1-inch version more expensive than the 7-inch model, which retails for $750. On the upside, at small the company hasn’t oversubscribed sufficiency of Galaxy Tabs to have legions of disappointed customers.

Apple Said in Talks to Sell ITunes Buyers Unlimited Downloads for Devices (Bloomberg)

Apparently, Apple’s in talks with music companies to allow iTunes users to download songs binary times. If an commendation is reached, you’d be allowed to redownload songs on your devices, meet as you can redownload apps you’ve already bought. Then again, much a feature strength also reveal that your acquire of the stylish Jonas Brothers azygos wasn’t a one-time fluke.

AirPlay Is Coming to Apps, Except the Ones You Use (GigaOm)

While HBO is ostensibly over attractive plus of Apple’s AirPlay technology, Netflix has no plans to compel the feature for its iOS apps when iOS 4.3 drops incoming week, pointing discover that the Apple TV already has Netflix support. Surprising plainness for a company that allows streaming to everything from my Xbox 360 to my toaster.

Microsoft Said to Plan Windows Release for Tablets in 2012 (BusinessWeek)

The company that has proven to invigorate the paper market more nowadays than martyr screenwriter has rereleased the Star Wars trilogy module be trying once again…in 2012. Yes, Microsoft is reportedly gift tablets another shot, aiming for back-to-school flavour incoming year. To be fair, they requirement at small a assemblage to figure discover how to smush the Surface into something that fits in a backpack.

Apple iPad 2 launch? Fix in-app purchases first, Apple! (NMA.tv)

If you’ve been inactivity breathlessly for the incoming broadcast of Taiwanese-produced CGI versions of current events, wait no longer: the stylish edition covers the in-app acquire foofaraw and includes an grievous Steve Jobs stealing a house with a helicopterâ€"a phrase I module no doubt never get to indite ever again in my career.

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