Alongside today's quiet MacBook Pro refresh, Apple has also updated its iPad 2 Smart Cover offerings, perhaps most notably discontinuing the orange polyurethane cover and replacing it with a new dark gray cover.
New dark gray Smart Cover
Other changes include:
- Interior color now matches exterior color. The interior side of the Smart Cover facing the iPad screen had previously been a uniform gray color on all models. Smart Covers are now a consistent color inside and out.
Smart Cover showing red color on outside and inside
- More vibrant colors for polyurethane covers. Aside from the replacement of the orange cover with a dark gray one, sources indicate that the colors on the polyurethane models are now more vibrant. Polyurethane Smart Covers come in blue, green, pink, light gray, and dark gray.
- Color adjustment on navy leather cover. Apple offer five different leather Smart Covers, and sources reports that Apple has slightly tweaked the color on the n...
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Apple is making plans to roll out a new pilot program that will allow customers to pickup orders placed through the company's online store at one of their local retail stores. The program, reportedly known as Sherwood, will include any product available through the online store, including custom-configured Macs, engraved and gift-wrapped products, and the full slate of third-party accessories.
Apple's retail store EasyPay system with Sherwood offerings
Customers placing online orders will be offered the ability to select an Apple retail store for pickup, with standard configurations and accessories generally being available on a same-day basis as store stocks allow. Other items may take a few days to be delivered to the store.
In-store pickup of items purchased online will reportedly require proof of purchase and an ID, with one major benefit of the program being the ability to designate one additional person to be eligible to pick up the order. One of our sources...
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Vincent Tabak's defence case ends with a statement from a neighbour at the building where he and Yeates lived in BristolThe defence case in the trial of Vincent Tabak has closed with a neighbour telling the jury that he did not hear anything unusual on the night of Joanna Yeates's death.Other witnesses have reported hearing screams at around the time Yeates was killed at her flat in Bristol but the retired teacher Geoffrey Hardyman, who lives in the same building, said he heard nothing.After his statement was read to the jury, William Clegg QC, for Tabak, said the defence case was concluded. The jury was told it would hear closing speeches from the prosecution and defence on Tuesday.Tabak, a 33-year-old Dutch engineer, denies murdering his next-door neighbour, a 25-year-old landscape architect. He has admitted manslaughter.The defendant has claimed Yeates invited him into her flat in Clifton. He says she made a "flirtatious" remark to him and he attempted to kiss her.Tabak cl...
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Live coverage as Rupert Murdoch's former right-hand man is questioned for a second time by the culture select committee2.12pm: Les Hinton has completed his third appearance before the Commons committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World. Dan Sabbagh has the analysis below, but here is the roundup:• Les Hinton said he saw "no reason" why James Murdoch should resign over the scandal.• Hinton said that he hasn't talked to the Metropolitan police about the phone hacking scandal and that he has not been questioned by Viet Dinh, the News Corp man in charge of the internal phone hacking inquiry.• He said he was never aware of any payments to police or other private detectives working for News International.• He said he became aware of the "For Neville" email after the Gordon Taylor settlement was revealed by the Guardian in July 2009.• Hinton said he was "not personally involved" in the internal investigations into phone hacking at News International when...
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Julian Assange says banking bans have destroyed 95% of whistleblowing site's revenuesJulian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial blockade and raise new funds.Assange, speaking at a press conference in London on Monday, said a banking blockade had destroyed 95% of WikiLeaks' revenues.He added that the blockade posed an existential threat to WikiLeaks and if it was not lifted by the new year the organisation would be "simply not able to continue".The website, behind the publication of hundreds of thousands of controversial US embassy cables in late 2010 in partnership with newspapers including the Guardian and New York Times, revealed that it was running on cash reserves after "an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade" by the Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Western Union.WikiLeaks said in a statement: "The blockade is outside of any accounta...
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Ucas reveals 52,321 UK-born students have applied for university next year, when fees will rise to up to £9,000 a yearThe number of UK-born university applicants for next September – when fees rise to up to £9,000 a year – has plummeted by almost 12%, official figures show.The first set of statistics on applications to university next year, published by the Universities and Colleges and Admissions Service (Ucas), reveal that 52,321 applicants have applied from within the UK, compared with 59,413 this time last year.Union leaders said the figures were proof that ministers' decision to almost treble fees had been "a disaster", while charities expressed concern that students from low-income homes may have been deterred from applying.The statistics show the number of applications received by universities by 15 October, the deadline for Oxford, Cambridge and courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine, and are an early indication of the total across all courses th...
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Heavy rain, high winds and flash floods expected as agency issues alerts for south-west, Welsh rivers and Yorkshire coastSouth-west England and Wales have been warned of the risk of flash floods as heavy rain is driven in from the Atlantic by strong winds.The weather front has led to 14 flood alerts in Cornwall and Devon and one in Wales, as well as one covering a stretch of the Yorkshire coast at Bridlington where high tides and winds are expected to combine.The warnings end a brief mild spell after last week's cold snap, although temperatures are not expected to fall significantly. Matt Dobson, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, said the main feature would be "persistent and heavy" rain.There was widespread flooding in Northern Ireland, with homes in south Belfast and Co Antrim damaged in the deluge. Cars had to be towed out of deep water on the Moira Road outside Belfast, and there was also heavy flooding in the Glenavy area.Oliver McMullan, who represents the East Antrim area...
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