Apple readies revamped 15-inch MacBook Pro: Retina Display, ultra-thin design, and super-fast USB 3
Mockup: New, thinner MacBook Pro on the left. Current model on the right. — Apple is putting the finishing touches on an entirely new 15-inch MacBook Pro that is the outcome of years …
Apple Preparing Upgrade to iCloud
Apple Inc. is preparing an upgrade of its online service iCloud that includes new photo-sharing features, according to people familiar with the matter. — The new features, expected to be announced a...
Ex-Yahoo Chief Told Board He Has Cancer
Before resigning as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. over the weekend, Scott Thompson disclosed to the company's board of directors and several colleagues that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, ...
Apple Said to Prepare Thinner Mac Laptops Sporting Intel Chips
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel Corp. (INTC), people with knowledge of the plans said. — The MacBook Pro machines,...
Apple OS “really vulnerable”, claims Kaspersky Lab CTO
Apple has invited security company Kaspersky Lab to advise it on the security of its Mac OS - according to the security provider's chief technology officer. — Speaking exclusively to Computing, Kasp...
As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed
New York, the District of Columbia and fifteen other states have joined the e-book pricing class action suit against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin, bringing the total number of states involved so far t...
Insider tells why Anonymous ‘might well be the most powerful organization on Earth’
Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the pry...
Groupon Gets a Poorly Titled CBS Sitcom
In 2010, Facebook was the basis for a David Fincher film, and now another wunderkind-run Web site with an I.P.O. in the billions is being adapted for entertainment's sake. This time, the social-media...
Dawn of a new wireless: first 802.11ac router available today
Texas-based networking company Buffalo announced its first 802.11ac wireless router and wireless media bridge are available today for retail purchase. The two networking products are backwards compat...
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Starting today, you can discover the best of Twitter in a weekly email digest delivered to your inbox. This summary features the most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you're connected...
Facebook Said Set to Finish Taking IPO Orders Tomorrow
Facebook Inc. (FB) plans to stop taking orders for its initial public offering by tomorrow, two days ahead of schedule, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction. — The world's biggest...
Apple releases update to Leopard, includes Flashback removal tool
While Apple has released updates for both Lion and Snow Leopard to remove the Flashback malware that is making the rounds, the company had not released a fix for Leopard until today. Apple released a...
Intel Windows 8 tablets to hit retail stores in November
Intel ‘Clover Trail’ Atom Z2760-based Windows 8 tablet. — (Credit: Brooke Crothers) — The first wave of Intel-based Windows 8 tablets are expected to land in retail stores in November, a source fa...
LG shows off the best Google TV yet, with motion controls, dual-core CPU, 3D
When we first learned LG would be launching its crop of Google TV sets this month, I asked “will anyone care?” — now after seeing LG's G2 series in action, I'm surprised to report that plenty of cons...
Kickstarter ‘Bug’ Exposed Projects
A security lapse at the popular crowd-funding website Kickstarter.com exposed more than 70,000 project ideas that weren't ready to be viewed. — The information that could be seen didn't include cred...
Zynga Picks Up Mobile Gaming Startup Wild Needle In A Talent Deal
Zynga has picked up the team behind Wild Needle, a female-focused casual games company that was backed by Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson. — Wild Needle was raising funding back in late 2010 to bui...
Apple to announce photo-sharing, video syncing services for iCloud at WWDC
Apple is planning on adding photo-sharing features, as a part of an upgrade of the service, reports the Wall Street Journal. The services, which would be announced at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Co...
Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront
In the past three and a half years, Amazon CloudFront has changed the content delivery landscape. It has demonstrated that a CDN does not have to be complex to use with expensive contracts, minimum c...
LinkedIn releases official Windows Phone app, and it's beautiful
LinkedIn has quietly released an official Windows Phone 7.5 application over the weekend (picked up earlier by Guardian, Neowin and many others). I gave it a quick whirl, and the verdict is that it l...
Fact-Checking Digitimes, the Taiwanese Apple Rumor Source That Keeps Crying ‘Wolf!’
“It's key to note that the DigiTimes has a hit-or-miss track record for nailing predictions....” — “Digitimes has a spotty track record with regard to Apple rumors...”
Nokia's last stand: can the 147-year-old company design its way back?
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