Apple’s new battery charger

Apple’s new battery charger has very low “vampire draw” and reduces power when the batteries are charged. It comes with 6 high-performance AA NiMH, which they can last up to ten years. Plus, the batteries can sit in a drawer for a year and still have 80% charge. $29.99

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Woz get his iPad, says “Better than I ever imagined.”

Photo from Cult of Mac.

TechCrunch and GigaOm are suitably impressed too. Looks like Apple has another huge hit.

Apple resigns Chamber of Commerce too over their climate change denial

Chamber of Commerce

That makes three major utilities and now Apple who have left the Chamber of Commerce. Nike resigned from the board last week. All due to the Chamber’s deliberate climate change denial.

Apple was blunt.

We strongly object to the Chamber’s recent comments opposing the EPA’s effort to limit greenhouse gases…Apple supports [...]

iTunes replacing Wal-Mart as No. 1 music retailer

Looks like this will happen this year. Music CDs are quickly becoming extinct while iTunes commands a massive share of the legal download market.

Key fact:

Nearly half of all U.S. teens (48 percent) did not purchase a CD last year. That is up from 2006, when about 38 percent of teens made no CD [...]