iRig Mix ships to iDevice-carrying DJs, Android app compatibility looks unlikely

If virtual DJs aren’t your thing, you might be pleased to hear that the iRig Mix mobile music mixer is now shipping. You can forgo hefty price tags and still mix your own tunes for $99.99 with up to two iDevices at a time, audio from guitars, MP3 players, CD players and the like. In addition to physical controls for volume, gain, treble and bass, the mixer is accompanied by a roster of free apps to help with production, performing and recording.

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iPads are so user friendly, apes use them to communicate

Two 8-year-old twin orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island zoo, draw, play games and communicate using an iPad tablet . The park is one of several zoos experimenting with the interaction of apes and computers, allowing six orangutans to use Apple’s tablet to communicate as part of a mental stimulus program, Fox News reported. “Our young ones pick up on it.

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Facebook to launch its own app store in the coming weeks

Facebook on Wednesday announced it will be launching a new App Center in the coming weeks on the Web, iOS and Android . The company hopes the center will give developers a way to more effectively distribute apps and create new opportunities for more types of apps to be successful.

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Proview’s U.S. iPad suit against Apple tossed out

A California judge tossed out Proview’s trademark claims against Apple’s iPad tablet. The Chinese company filed a lawsuit in California’s superior court in February , claiming Apple’s license to use the iPad name was invalid, a claim Apple disputes. Judge Mark Pierce last week dismissed the case on the grounds that the two parties had previously agreed to settle any disagreements in Hong Kong , Reuters reported. Apple and Proview have been locked in  a high-profile legal dispute  over whether or not Apple has the right to use the  use the iPad name  in China and elsewhere

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New iPad coming to 30 additional countries this week

Apple’s new iPad will be launching in 23 new countries on Friday, May 11th and seven additional markets on Saturday, May 12th. Despite the massive expansion, the Cupertino-based company’s latest tablet PC will still be unavailable in China, where the company is instead promoting the iPad 2. On May 11th the tablet will launch in Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Malta, Martinique, Mauritius, Morocco, Peru, Taiwan, Tunisia, Vietnam

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VeriFone outs Sail mobile payment system, gives Square the evil eye

VeriFone has decided that calling out claimed security holes and focusing on enterprise-level payment options aren’t enough to take on Square . Sail goes more directly for Square’s jugular, using its own plug-in dongle to handle major credit card payments in your local coffee shop or a mid-sized outlet

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