Apple's iPad WiFi + 4G renamed 'iPad WiFi + Cellular' across many of its stores Remember Apple's new iPad WiFi + 4G? Well, forget that moniker, as this variant of the company's latest slate has been quietly re-dubbed as the iPad WiFi + Cellular. As noticed by 9to5Mac, the change occurred within the last "24-48 hours" across many of Apple's region-specific webstores (update: and retail locations), including (but not limited to) those for the US, UK, Australia, Canada and various countries in Asia. If you'll recall, in many regions the best you'll get out of the slate is HSPA-connectivity, even though it's also equipped for LTE -- something that Apple itself had considered good enough to market it as 4G despite offering refunds to customers in Australia who (like many others) couldn't officially partake in its LTE. Interestingly, 9to5Mac also notes that a similar change hasn't made its way over to the iPad 2, which still has its cellular-equipped variant named, iPad 2 WiFi + 3G.
We've reached out to Apple for comment, but the meantime, feel free to hit up the source links below for more insight. From around the web ear iconeye icontext fileAutocorrect is almost as old as personal computers. Even some of the earliest word processors had a spellcheck feature that suggested alternative words if a word you typed did not appear in its internal dictionary. Certainly, today, autocorrect has come a long way since the Cupertino effect. What’s the Cupertino effect? Well, in its early days, word processors would replace the word “cooperation” with “Cupertino” (the city in Northern California where Apple and other computer companies are headquartered). This spelling suggestion made its way to many documents published by the United Nations, NATO, and other official bodies, so the Cupertino effect is any inappropriate suggestion or autocorrection made by a spellchecker. In the beginning autocorrect was primarily a smart spellchecker. If you typed “bfeore,” it replaced it with “before.”
Then in 2007, Microsoft introduced the “contextual speller” (also known as Grammar Checker) for Office, and squiggly green lines began appearing in our Word Docs. Those green lines signified a problem between words not with just one word. So, if the verb of your sentence was not correctly conjugated for the subject, it would suggest a replacement. As in, “I leaves the office at 5” would be corrected to say “I leave the office at 5.” It could also correct words that were next to each other. For example, if you typed “shew ent,” it replaced it with “she went.” (If you have questions about autocorrect in Microsoft Word, learn more here.) Google Docs has taken a slightly different approach. In addition to offering spellcheck suggestions, it allows you to customize autocorrect, so that you can program abbreviations that you use often. You can instruct it to always replace NY with “New York” for example. In the past two years smart phones have transformed (and some would say mangled) the English language with their autocorrect suggestions.
They now suggest and automatically replace words as you type them. As you may have experienced, this can lead to some very serious miscommunication. (You can find numerous examples at the blog, Damn You, Autocorrect.) Smart phone autocorrect works a little differently than the traditional tools in a word processor. Because smart phone keyboards are so tiny and close together, autocorrect suggests alternative words that contain letters near the letters in the misspelled word. This means the range of error is much larger than with traditional autocorrect which is relying primarily on a dictionary and grammatical algorithms, rather than on letter proximity. Maybe this all means that we should read our e-mails and text messages ourselves before hitting send. How do you technically describe what autocorrect does? Metathesis is the changing of one letter or sound for another letter or sound. Anatypsis is the insertion of a vowel in the middle of a word, more broadly called epenthesis. A paragoge is an addition of a sound at the end of a word, rather than the middle.
So if you make an embarrassing autocorrect error, maybe using these terms to describe what happened will help you save face. Do you have any stories about autocorrect incorrectly changing your words? The Kathmandu Post January 21, 2009 Kathmandu, Jan. 21 — Surgeons at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) on Tuesday removed stones successfully from the gall-bladder of Minister for Finance Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, according to doctors involved in the surgery. see here gall bladder surgery Minister Dr. Bhattarai was admitted in the hospital at 9 a.m. Tuesday after complaints of stomach pain. He underwent laparoscopic-surgery (surgery procedure to remove biliary stones) for over one-hour to remove stones from his gall-bladder. Doctors said that Dr. Bhattarai will stay in the hospital till Wednesday evening. A team of surgeons led by Dr. Mahesh Prasad Khakurel had carried out the operation. Zelnik suing Bidermann, company over discharge.(Michel Zelnik, former president and CEO of Bidermann Industries U.S.A. Inc.)
here gold toe socks Daily News Record June 20, 1995 | Siegel, Jeff NEW YORK (FNS) – Michael Zelnik, the recently deposed president and CEO of Bidermann Industries U.S.A., Inc., has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the apparel company and Maurice Bidermann for allegedly firing him without “serious cause” and for injuring his business reputation. In a complaint filed in Manhattan State Supreme Court, Zelnik contends he was the victim of a “willful and malicious” smear campaign by Maurice Bidermann before and after he was fired on June 5. [Marsal running Bidermann Industries; Maurice back in Paris, Page 10] Zelnik refused to comment on his surprise termination when contacted by DNR the day he and the company parted ways. But the former executive pulls no punches in accusing his former boss of orchestrating his firing and attempting to destroy his professional credentials. Zelnik charges that Bidermann’s smear tactics against him began as early as 1989, when Bidermann allegedly questioned Zelnik’s loyalty in a conversation with a reporter.
The suit states that Bidermann continued to malign Zelnik by “telling representatives of banks and other creditors, falsely, that Zelnik was responsible for the deterioration of the company’s financial condition …” Zelnik contends Bidermann has continued to vilify him in talks with representatives of banks and potential purchasers of the company “up to the date of this complaint” (June 16). Furthermore, Zelnik charged in the complaint, Bidermann told the media that Zelnik left the company of his own accord when, in reality, “it was Bidermann who, with others, caused Zelnik’s discharge without notice.” By asserting that Zelnik left on his own, Bidermann gave the business community the impression that Zelnik “recklessly abandoned his professional responsibilities without regard to the consequences to the company,” Zelnik charged. Zelnik said the statements to the press were “undertaken willfully and maliciously with the intent to damage Zelnik’s good name, reputation and character as an executive in the business community.”
He said he has suffered “great pain and mental anguish” as a result of Bidermann’s statements, and he is asking for $4 million for Bidermann’s “false and defamatory words” and $2 million in punitive damages. site gold toe socks As reported, Zelnik was replaced by Bryan Marsal, manager of turnaround specialist Alvarez & Marsal. Marsal, who is not named as a defendant in the suit, allegedly told Zelnik that Bidermann’s board, together with the company’s banks, had decided to oust Zelnik over Marsal’s objections. In addition to those damages, Zelnik is asking for at least $4 million in compensatory damages relating to unpaid salary and bonuses. Under his employment contract, Zelnik is to be paid two times his annual $750,000 salary and $300,000 bonus, or $2.1 million, if he is fired without cause. Zelnik said he is also owed $1.9 million for his work in selling off Bidermann’s Great American Knitting Mills operation for a reported 80 million. Zelnik said the official reason given for his termination was “gross misconduct in connection with the business of the company and material breach of the employment agreement.”