GO-Global iPad Client Now Available from Apple App Store

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GraphOn Corporation (OTCBB:GOJO.ob - News), a leading worldwide developer of cloud application delivery solutions, today announced that its new GO-Global iPad Client is now available as a free app from Apple’s App Store. The GO-Global iPad Client allows the user to view and interact with Windows applications on the Apple iPad when used in conjunction with GraphOn’s GO-Global Windows Host 4 application virtualization solution.

GO-Global Windows Host 4 provides instant and secure access to server-resident Windows applications from virtually any location, platform, and operating system. The solution delivers legacy applications over LANs, WANs, VPNs, or the Internet for easy and secure remote access from cross-platform clients and mobile users.

GO-Global 4 customers can download the free GO-Global iPad Client at http://itunes.apple.com/app/go-global/id441263366?mt=8# for immediate access to GO-Global-enabled Windows applications. iPad users who are not currently using GO-Global, but wish to evaluate its capabilities, can download the GO-Global iPad Client and then use the app to connect to GraphOn’s online demonstration server.

“Our GO-Global iPad Client includes a number of advanced usability features,” said Asaf Doron, GraphOn vice president of product marketing. “For example, when viewing Microsoft Office applications on an iPad, the auto-zoom feature will detect the section of the screen that is currently active in the desktop Office application and automatically zoom in on that area.”

“This is the first product resulting from our new mobile client initiative that will allow for easy cloud delivery of legacy desktop applications to popular smartphone and tablet platforms, ranging from Apple iOS devices such as iPad and iPhone to Android smartphone and tablets,” continued Doron. “This means that the millions of existing Windows, UNIX and Linux legacy applications can be easily and seamlessly delivered to smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices.”

Further information about GO-Global iPad Client and a positioning paper on GraphOn’s mobile client initiative are available at www.graphon.com/products-and-solutions/mobile-clients.

About GraphOn

Founded in 1996, GraphOn Corporation is a publicly-traded company headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. The company is an innovator of cost-effective, advanced solutions that help customers access applications from anywhere. GraphOn’s high-performance software solutions provide fast remote access, cross-platform connectivity, and a centralized architecture that delivers a dramatically lower cost of ownership. The company’s GO-Global solutions can be used with Microsoft (MSFT) Windows, IBM AIX, Oracle (ORCL) Solaris, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) HP-UX, Linux, Apple (AAPL) OS X and iOS, and other operating systems. For more information, call 1.800.GRAPHON in the USA, +44.1344.206549 in Europe, or visit http://www.graphon.com or http://www.facebook.com/graphon.

This press release contains statements that are forward looking as that term is defined by the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results will differ due to factors such as shifts in customer demand, product shipment schedules, product mix, competitive products and pricing, technological shifts and other variables. Readers are referred to GraphOn's most recent periodic and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

GraphOn and GO-Global are trademarks of GraphOn Corp. Other trademarks belong to their owners.

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iPad cannibalization talk crazy, says analyst

Computerworld - Apple's iPad hasn't materially affected consumer PC sales, as some have claimed, a research firm said today.

During the 2010 holiday sales season, only about 12% of iPad buyers abandoned a PC purchase to acquire the tablet, making cannibalization a minor factor, according to survey data compiled by the NPD Group.

The decline of consumer PC sales growth rates has a much simpler explanation: The huge numbers posted by PC makers in the aftermath of Microsoft's 2009 launch of Windows 7.

"We're comparing PC sales against a record high," said Stephen Baker, an analyst with NPD. "Yes, consumer notebook sales are down, but it's linked to that, not the iPad. The comparisons are to the best sales period in history."

Last month, other research firms, including IDC and Gartner, said global PC sales were down 3.2% and 1.1%, respectively. Gartner claimed that tablet sales -- the iPad makes up the vast bulk of those -- was one of the reasons why PC sales slumped.

Baker disagreed.

According to NPD's poll of iPad owners, only 12% bought the tablet instead of a standard PC during last year's holidays, a dip from the 14% who purchased an iPad in the first six months of its availability.

Most consumers haven't seen the need to buy a desktop or notebook PC because they purchased one in the past 12 to 18 months, Baker. "That's the reason why iPad sales haven't cannibalized PCs," Baker said.

What Baker called conventional wisdom -- that tablet sales eat into low-priced notebooks -- "is most assuredly incorrect," he said. It's the over-$500 Windows consumer notebook where PC sales have been hurt. From October 2010 to March 2011, sales of those notebooks fell by 25%.

Even Apple has argued that iPads have dented PC sales. "Yes, I think there is some cannibalization," said Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, during a January earnings call.

While Baker refused to echo Cook, he did warn that iPads could shake up PCs, perhaps even the lowest-priced notebooks, within the next year or year and a half.

"The big challenge for [PC manufacturers] going forward with the iPad is for that second or third computer in the house," Baker said. "In the next six to 12 to 18 months, as consumers think about replacing the rest of their installed base of older PCs, people are going to start asking, 'What's right for me, another PC or a tablet?' That should give anyone in the PC business cause for concern."

If that happens, the mix of devices in the home would radically change. "There used to be two or three desktops in the home, now there's a single desktop and a couple of notebooks," Baker said. "But in the future, it may be just one notebook and several tablets."

The idea that the iPad has caused the consumer PC slow-down is understandable. "Usage tightly overlaps for the majority of people," said Baker, ticking off such things as email and Web browsing. "Most people don't move their notebooks or iPads very far, most people use them for the same kinds of things. It's easy to see why people have thought that the iPad cannibalizes PC sales."

NPD's survey also showed that consumers are passing on 3G-capable iPads, opting instead for the less-expensive Wi-Fi models. In the 2010 holiday season, for instance, the $499 Wi-Fi iPad accounted for three out of every four iPads sold at retail.

Mobile carriers -- in the U.S., that's AT&T and Verizon -- have had little luck selling the iPad, Baker said, noting that carrier stores accounted for just 3% of iPad sales during the holidays.

"The carrier stores have struggled with selling things other than phones," said Baker. "For tablets, the subsidized model hasn't really worked. Carriers aren't willing to subsidize tablets down to the price of smartphones, and customers aren't willing to pay more than that. They just do not see the utility in 3G connectivity."

Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is gkeizer@computerworld.com.

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New Yorker Offers iPad Subscriptions

“Whether it’s in there,” he said, pointing to the magazine, “or on there,” pointing to the iPad, “is going to cost about a dollar under this plan. That’s what a song costs. A lot has gone into it. Imaginative effort, editorial footwork, fact-checking and copy editing, all at the highest level every week. All of that for the price of a song? Seems like a pretty good deal to me.”

Apple, which released the iPad last March, has been busy rounding up publishers to help make its tablet even more appealing to consumers. Last week, Hearst Magazines announced a deal for iPad subscriptions to some of its magazines that will begin in July and Time Inc. made an arrangement for subscribers to get some magazines free, but Condé Nast is the first major publisher to begin a subscription plan on the iPad for one of its magazines (previously readers had to download each issue individually).

And the iPad subscription offer is quite aggressive: $5.99 for one month (for four issues) and $59.99 for a full year. But even more surprising, a bundled version of print and digital subscriptions, is available for $6.99 a month, or $69.99 a year. (Current print subscribers can sign in to the iPad version at no additional charge.)

Subscriptions on the iPad to The New Yorker went on sale early Monday, and subscriptions for other Condé Nast magazines, including Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, Allure, Wired, Self and GQ, will become available in the coming weeks. The Condé Nast-Apple deal was first reported in The New York Post last week.  

“We already have these applications in our store and the No. 1 bit of feedback that we have gotten from our customers, the one thing that everyone wants, is to be able to subscribe,” Mr. Cue said.

Condé Nast has traditionally gotten its magazines in the hands of consumers at a cheap price in the hopes of building up big rate bases, the number used to sell advertisers, and the deal with Apple is consistent with that advertising-first approach. Over time, the new tablet subscribers could be a boon to advertising now that the Audit Bureau of Circulations has ruled that digital subscribers can be counted toward the rate base. The bundled subscriptions could also help protect the legacy business by giving a boost to print subscriptions while selling many more digital ones — young people and international consumers are a particular target.

“In terms of the price, we are constantly examining what will work and decided that we wanted to make the initial offer as attractive as possible,” Mr. Sauerberg said.

It will come at a price. Although Condé Nast can sell digital subscriptions on its own Web sites, the vast majority of sales will take place in the Apple App Store, where nearly a third of the price will go to Apple (specific terms were not disclosed). In addition, the consumer data derived from app store sales will belong to Apple and shared as the company sees fit, although Mr. Cue said that “magazine publishers will know a lot more about subscribers on the iPad than they ever did about print subscribers.”

By teaming with Apple, Condé Nast and other publishers gain access to a database of 200 million credit card holders and a sales environment where billions of songs and millions of apps have already been sold. But the music industry lesson is one that is not lost on publishing. Apple may have “saved” the music industry, but it is a much smaller business with little control over its pricing.

“Of course, we have a very different perspective on that,” Mr. Cue said. “We didn’t shrink the music business, it was pretty shrunk by the time we came along. We have proven that people are willing to pay for content and that’s something people never believed would happen. Some people still don’t believe it.”

Condé Nast, which has often been cautious with the digital realm — for a long time many of its magazines didn’t have individual Web sites — has moved swiftly to be first to market with iPad subscriptions.

“If you are going to get thousands of readers that you didn’t have before, or maybe even hundreds of thousands of readers, you’d be foolish to complain about the work that went into coming up with something they found compelling on the iPad,” Mr. Remnick said. “It is a very big opportunity for a magazine like The New Yorker to find whole new audiences.”

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Higher-Resolution iPad Rumored for the Holidays

Don't put an iPad 2 on your holiday wish list just yet, because a new rumor suggests that Apple will release an iPad 3 in the fourth quarter.

Apple's next iPad will have an image resolution five to six times higher than the iPad 2, according to Reuters. The rumor comes from Taiwan's Economic Daily, which in turn cites unnamed industry sources. This month, Asian research firm CSLA said that an iPad 3 will launch by Christmas.

Economic Daily's report also says that Apple will sell a new MacBook Air this month, with 380,000 units as its first shipment. This echoes earlier reports of a MacBook Air refresh that said the ultrathin laptops would include Intel's Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt connections.

Given that two very similar rumors recently appeared in other publications, it's possible that the Economic Daily's industry sources are the same ones who fueled the earlier reports. In other words, rumors are spawning more rumors.

It does seem likely that Apple will release a MacBook Air refresh soon, given the number of sources reporting this rumor and the occasional MacBook Air discount at retailers such as Best Buy. If you're considering a MacBook Air and must have the latest technology, you might want to wait and see what happens in a couple of weeks.

The iPad 3 rumor, however, stands on shakier ground. It's possible that Apple will release a high-resolution iPad alongside the existing generation, rather than replace the iPad 2 outright, as John Gruber, a well-connected Apple blogger, speculated last February. But really, there's not enough solid information available, and pinning down exactly what Apple is going to do in six months is tricky. Eventually, all iPad rumors jump the shark, but we're not there yet.

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Apple Compensates Man Injured In iPad 2 Launch Melee - ITProPortal

It seems that the iPad 2 frenzy in China has been the biggest of them all, as it culminated in fights between customers and the sales staff. Apple has compensated a customer who was injured on Saturday after a fight broke out, and crowds smashed store’s glass shop front, rushing for the iPad 2 and the white iPhone 4 smartphone.

 "The Apple Store Sanlitun was closed for several hours on Saturday after a group outside the store became unruly. The store team acted to protect themselves and our customers by closing the doors and preventing the group from entering. The safety of our customers and employees is our top priority." Carolyn Wu, an Apple spokesperson, said.

Ding Wencheng, the Chinese customer that suffered injuries during the brawl, reached a $3,000 settlement with the store. But he wasn’t the only one injured. At least three other customers were reportedly hospitalized, but there hasn’t been any other reports yet about any of them being compensated. 

Some anonymous sources in the crowd told the press that the melee was actually started by a “foreign” Apple employee who beat people that he accused of queue jumping. Right after the iPad was launched, big lines started to gather both in Beijing and Shanghai, as the highly popular iPad 2 returned “home”. 

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Condè Nast bringing The New Yorker and more to the iPad

The New Yorker is finally on its way to the iPad via subscription – and it’s not alone. Power publisher Condè Nast announced it will also introduce Wired, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, Allure, Self, and GQ subscriptions to the App Store by the end of the month.

In a blog post, The New Yorker explained that while its original iPad app was well-received, its customers wanted more. “They wanted to subscribe to the magazine on the iPad or to get access to their subscription if they had one already; until now, the only way to read the magazine on the iPad was to buy single issues, at single-issue prices. As of this morning, that is changing.”

Apple launched its iTunes-App Store subscription model in February alongside the debut of The Daily, and getting there was no small feat. Rumor had it that Apple could not reach an agreement with publishers over consumer data, and the 30-percent cut the company would keep from all in-app subscriptions was also being contested. The subscription model’s introduction didn’t go smoothly either, attracting an investigation courtesy of U.S. antitrust regulators on account of Apple’s charges and rule prohibiting app’s from promoting product outside of Apple’s own store. The Cupertino company has long been labeled anticompetitive, and its in-app subscription terms for publishers haven’t helped it deny these claims.

Despite any bad press, big name publishers are still jumping on board. The New Yorker will now be available for current print subscribers to receive the publication via iPad for free, and everyone else can now pay $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Prior to, each issue cost $4.99. Condè Nast is a major victory for Apple, and comes just after Hearst agreed to sell magazines subscriptions through iTunes last week. And according to All Things Digital, Apple might be willing to employ some flexibility when it comes to its subscription terms. Hearst suggested the company “[modified] at least some of its conditions” in order to come to an agreement over its content. It looks some concessions on Apple’s part were applied to the Condè Nast deal too, such as admitting the publisher to request additional consumer data and flexible pricing options.

While consumers are likely thrilled by the increase of available magazine comment and ease that comes with the subscription rates, we’re willing to bet other publishers who have agree to the iTunes subscription terms may start to seek this kind of accommodating treatment from Apple as well.

Here’s the press release announcing the new content in it’s entirety [via Engadget].

CONDÉ NAST TO OFFER MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR iPAD

The New Yorker Available Via Subscription on the App Store Starting Today,

Seven Others by End of May

New York, N.Y.-May 9, 2011- Condé Nast has begun offering subscriptions for iPad editions of its magazines today, it was announced by Robert A. Sauerberg, Jr., President of Condé Nast. Subscriptions are now available for The New Yorker, which will be followed by Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, Allure, Wired, Self and GQ in the coming weeks.

Subscriptions for iPad editions of Condé Nast magazines will be available through In-App Purchase on the App Store. Current print subscribers will be able to access iPad editions immediately through the term of their subscriptions, and new print subscriptions sold on Condé Nast websites ?including newyorker.com? will include access to iPad editions.

“We’ve been working closely with Apple for some time to be the first to deliver what consumers clearly want: easy access to premium packaged digital content via subscription,” said Mr. Sauerberg. “The iPad has created an incredible new way for readers to experience our award-winning magazines. Over time, we’ll see subscriptions leading to greater and greater scale, helping to drive overall industry growth.”

“We are thrilled to have Condé Nast’s world-renowned magazines available on the iPad,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s Vice President of Internet Services. “Condé Nast is connecting with readers in an innovative way, and we think everyone is going to love being able to subscribe to iPad editions of their favorite Condé Nast magazines with just one click.”

Condé Nast will offer monthly and yearly subscriptions and will continue to offer single issues, all via In-App Purchase on the App Store. Some additional pricing details:

· Subscriptions to The New Yorker’s weekly iPad editions are available through In-App Purchase on the App Store and include password access to the web-based edition for $5.99/month (4 issues) or $59.99/year. Print and digital bundled subscriptions available at newyorker.com include print, iPad and web-based editions for $6.99/month (4 issues) or $69.99/year.

· Subscription offerings available through In-App Purchase on the App Store for Wired, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, Allure, Self and GQ will be $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year.

Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, operates in 25 countries and is home to some of the world’s most celebrated media brands. In the United States, Condé Nast publishes 18 consumer magazines, four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 30 apps for mobile and tablet devices, all of which define excellence in their categories. Condé Nast has won more National Magazine Awards over the past ten years than all of its competitors combined.

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