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Apple iPods aid U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 07:25 PM EDT

The U.S. military went into Iraq with few troops able to speak Arabic. Now they can use their iPods to do the talking for them... [Read More]

Google reveals Apple App Store-like ‘Android Market’ for Android-based phones
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 07:02 PM EDT

Google today shared early details of "Android Market," an open content distribution system... [Read More]

Beleaguered Dell’s earnings plummet 17% as PC box assembler sees slowdown
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 05:18 PM EDT

Dell Inc. said Thursday that its fiscal second-quarter earnings fell 17% from a year ago... [Read More]

Rogers extends limited-time iPhone prices, revamps data plans
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 05:07 PM EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. is revamping its data rate plans and extending a limited-time offer on the iPhone... [Read More]

Panic updates Coda to version 1.5; one-window web development for Apple Mac
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 03:27 PM EDT

Panic this week update to Coda, its web development application. According to the company... [Read More]

College students buying Macs in record numbers
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 03:25 PM EDT

In this back-to-school season, college kids are buying Macs in numbers never seen before... [Read More]

Bare Bones ships BBEdit 9.0
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 02:59 PM EDT

Bare Bones Software today announced the immediate availability of BBEdit 9.0, an upgrade to... [Read More]

Sony unveils four ‘Xplod’ Apple iPod-compatible car stereos
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 02:21 PM EDT

Sony has announced four new Xplod (in-dash head units that are able to connect directly to compatible iPod music players... [Read More]

Why the iPhone 3G sometimes dropped calls and what Apple’s iPhone 2.0.2 fixed
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 01:21 PM EDT

Our source close to AT&T helped illuminate why the update was necessary, what the problem was... [Read More]

Apple patent application describes ‘MacBook touch’
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 01:09 PM EDT

Apple has been developing interface technology that would allow for a multi-touch handheld with full Mac OS X... [Read More]

Vimpelcom inks deal with Apple to sell iPhone 3G in Russia
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:12 AM EDT

Vimpelcom, Russia's second-largest mobile phone operator, said on Thursday it had inked a distribution deal with Apple Inc... [Read More]

Twentieth Century Fox unveils 20 new DIGITAL COPY films; iPod-, iPhone-, Apple TV-ready DVDs
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:56 AM EDT

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment offers consumers flexibility with the release of several best-selling DVDs with DIGITAL COPY... [Read More]

Bloomberg News mistakenly runs Steve Jobs’ obituary
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:14 AM EDT

The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary... [Read More]

Music cartels pull select singles from iTunes Store in attempt to force ‘album’ bundle sales again
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 09:10 AM EDT

iTunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads... [Read More]

Get ready for new Apple iPods, overhauled MacBooks, and refreshed iMacs
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 04:47 PM EDT

With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt... [Read More]

iPhone software developers stifled under Apple’s gag order
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 02:20 PM EDT

By creating games and other programs for the iPhone, software developers hoped to find millions of new customers... [Read More]

Orange denies paying people to line up for Apple iPhone launch in Poland
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 02:07 PM EDT

Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple's 3G iPhones... [Read More]

CNET writer looks at ‘The colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista’
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 01:28 PM EDT

If you needed any further testament to the colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista... [Read More]

Report: Apple on verge of opening retail store in Belfast
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 01:14 PM EDT

Electronics giant Apple is on the verge of opening a store in Belfast... [Read More]

Apple reintroduces iPhone ‘Passcode Lock’ flaw (with workaround)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 12:04 PM EDT

Apple’s iPhone offers users an optional "Passcode Lock," which allows users to enter a four-digit passcode to limit access to the device... [Read More]

Additional testing of Apple iPhone’s 3G antenna again shows completely normal results
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 10:55 AM EDT

Eva Wieselgren, a journalist in Sweden, originally presented the findings of a study by Bluetest earlier... [Read More]

Windows worm loose on International Space Station; Mac-using astronauts unaffected
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 09:39 AM EDT

Nasa [sic] has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG... [Read More]

ASA rules iPhone ad ‘misleading’ in UK; says must not be broadcast again
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 09:07 AM EDT

The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the independent body set up by the advertising industry... [Read More]

Because Windows isn’t good enough: ‘Mac cloner’ Psystar to countersue Apple alleging antitrust
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 07:48 PM EDT

US-based Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit... [Read More]

Apple iPhone 3Gs now outnumber first-gen iPhones
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 05:06 PM EDT

Some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world... [Read More]

Mac adoption in enterprise increases four-fold in less than two years
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 04:17 PM EDT

Apple’s success with consumers has begun to spill over into the enterprise market, with Mac adoption... [Read More]

New addiction courtesy of Apple’s App Store for iPhone, iPod touch: Appiphilia
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 03:01 PM EDT

For the last few weeks, I've been staying up late glued to my screen, and frankly it has been wreaking havoc... [Read More]

Gartner: Apple Mac grabs 10.4 percent share of U.S. home market
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 02:35 PM EDT

More home users, and a growing number in the small business sphere, are opting to move to Apple’s computers... [Read More]

North Carolina middle school proposes iPod touch for each student
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 02:26 PM EDT

A Chapel Hill middle school could become the first in the country to give an iPod to every teacher... [Read More]

More blood on Apple iPhone’s Multi-Touch™ screen: Smartphone & Pocket PC mag becomes iPhone Life
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 01:30 PM EDT

For 11 years, Thaddeus Computing has published a magazine based on Microsoft’s mobile Windows operating system... [Read More]

French mobile carrier Orange admits to limiting iPhone 3G speed
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 12:44 PM EDT

Orange - Apple's iPhone carrier partner in France - has admitted artificially limiting the data speed... [Read More]

Unlike Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s Mac OS X does 64-bit right
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 12:20 PM EDT

Even with the 64-bit Power Mac G5 hardware, there were still software limitations in 2003's Mac OS X Panther... [Read More]

AT&T expands international data offerings for Apple iPhone
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 12:01 PM EDT

AT&T Inc. today announced expanded international data offerings to help keep iPhone customers connected... [Read More]

China lifts iTunes Store block, except for sales of pro-Tibet album
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 10:50 AM EDT

Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store is back up and running again in China after it was apparently blocked... [Read More]

Apple to celebrate retail store grand openings in Las Vegas and Mississippi on August 30
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 10:38 AM EDT

Apple will be celebrating the Grand Openings of their latest retail stores... [Read More]

The Tetris Company gets free Tetris clone ‘Tris’ removed from Apple’s App Store
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 09:02 AM EDT

Well — I've received notice from Apple that they've been contacted by The Tetris® Company about Tris... [Read More]

Google posts Gears for Safari beta
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 08:53 AM EDT

Google is now offering a beta version of Gears for Safari... [Read More]

Should Apple release a Multi-Touch™ touchscreen Mac?
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 04:45 PM EDT

Apple is one of the major leaders in the multitouch space and yet, the company's desire to bring a full-fledged touch-screen... [Read More]

Piper Jaffray analyst sees Apple again comfortably beating Wall Street estimates
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 03:59 PM EDT

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has reiterated his "Buy" rating and $250 price target on Apple {AAPL)... [Read More]

Apple seeds developers with new builds of Mac OS X 10.5.5, Safari 4
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 02:12 PM EDT

Apple again used a Friday to provide its developer community with new pre-release software for testing during the weekend... [Read More]

‘Mac cloner’ Open Tech puts itself up for sale (via PayPal)
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 01:01 PM EDT

Despite having been in operation for just three weeks, a company specializing in Mac clones is already putting... [Read More]

High prices for Apple iPhone 3G in India causes disappointment, outrage
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 12:30 PM EDT

The iPhone pricing [in Inida] is so steep that several potential customers were massively disappointed... [Read More]

ChangeWave survey shows plans to buy Apple Macs at all-time high
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 11:18 AM EDT

Apple is attracting potential buyers like never before and is getting top marks in customer satisfaction... [Read More]

Wired.com’s iPhone 3G survey reveals speed issues about carriers’ networks, not Apple’s hardware
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 10:38 AM EDT

Wired.com's survey of iPhone 3G users' suggests that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers' networks... [Read More]