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Apple Announces iPad Prices for Switzerland

Fresh of the ticker, these are the prices for the iPad in Switzerland. Pre-order starts on May 10th, delivering by end of May 2010. iPad with Wifi iPad with 3G 16 GB 649.- 799.- 32 GB 779.- 929.- 64 GB 899.- 1049.- (Table 1: iPad prices in Switzerland, in Swiss Francs) Prices are roughly 30% […]

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put.io Exits Beta Phase

Highly controversial video and download service put.io has just informed its beta testers about their official public launch in 7 days. Read the full email below. What is interesting to note with this launch is the fact, that put.io will only offer a limited amount of accounts. See the following screenshot. And the accounts are […]

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Apple iPad on 24?

+ When the iPad was publicly announced in January 2010, a producer of Fox’ tv action series “24” reported on Twitter that they are working hard to get the iPad on the show. And now that the US launch of the iPad is less then a week away, I start to wonder, I we will […]

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Google vs. China: What About Mobile?

Google today announced, that they redirect any services from google.cn (Google China) to their services at google.com.hk (Hong Kong). The reasons are, that google.com.hk is outside of the great Chinese firewall and therefor does not need to be self-censored. On the other side, this means that China can just block any traffic from inside to […]

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Swisscom Xtrazone Neuer Launch

Die Swisscom scheint wohl gelernt zu haben. Nach dem ersten katastrophal Launch der neuen Xtrazone unter neuem Design im Oktober 2009 hat sich Swisscom nun Zeit gelassen und mitte Januar 2010 einige Benutzer zu einem exklusiven Betatest geladen. Die rund 130 Tester und Testerinnen hatten fünf Tage zeit, die strukturtechnische Erneuerung ausgiebig zu testen. So […]

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Webtuesday Job Board

A couple of days ago the official Webtuesday Job Board has been launched. Head over to the Webtueady wiki to take a look at open positions at some technology and Internet related companies in Zurich and Switzerland. No matter if you are looking for a job as PHP or Ruby On Rails developer or as […]

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