Hearst, best known as a publisher of magazines and newspapers, is jumping into the business of developing…
Month: March 2010
25,000 Apple iPad pre-orders per hour?
Judging from the order numbers, pre-sales are coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour…
NBC’s The Marriage Ref uses Apple iPad for ‘fact checking’ (with image)
In the latest episode of NBC’s new TV show “The Marriage Ref” hosted by…
Apple surges past Wal-Mart to become 3rd most valuable U.S. company
Wal-Mart has dropped to fourth most valuable U.S. company as they were passed by new #3 Apple Inc…
RUMOR: Apple hit with ‘overwhelming’ iPad orders; Apr. 3 in-store pickup in jeopardy for new orders
Multiple sources are reporting to us about telephone conversations they’ve had with Apple reps…
Apple waits in wings as cable’s ‘TV Everywhere’ stamps out free
Once upon a time, not so long ago, a bunch of small companies in Silicon Valley thought…
Apple’s future won’t be brought to you by the letter ‘i’
A trademarks tribunal has knocked back Apple’s bid to stop a small company from trademarking…
Apple patent app reveals new high-end Multi-Touch technology
Yesterday the USPTO published yet another round of new highly sophisticated multi-touch panel patents…
Microsoft loses appeal in Word patent infringement case; ordered to pay $240 million in damages
Microsoft has lost an appeal against a court judgement that told it to pay $240 milllion…
Apple updates Safari ahead of CanSecWest browser hacking contest
Two weeks before a browser hacking contest is to kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, Apple yesterday…
Apple begins taking iPad pre-orders
As promised, Apple today began taking pre-orders for their revolutionary iPad…
Apple releases Safari 4.0.5 for Mac and Windows
Apple today released Safari 4.0.5 which is recommended for all Safari users…
Apple: iPad pre-orders start Friday, March 12 at 8:30am EST
Apple iPad will pre-orders begin in the U.S. on Friday, March 12 at 5:30am PST / 8:30am EST…
Apple would gain competitive advantage over Amazon by sharing customer info with publishers
Don’t expect Apple to get between The New York Times and its customers when a digital version…
The Motley Fool’s Beyers: Apple’s iPad might be a winner for digital newspapers
Readers of online newspapers spent just 70 seconds per day doing so…
Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs
Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $0.66, or 0.29%, on lighter than average volume of 14,433,361 shares to set a new all-time high…
Richard Belzer claims he did not choke Apple Store employee; just a joke
Richard Belzer from ‘Law and Order’ claims he never choked the Apple employee who called 911…
The Motley Fool’s Bylund: ‘HP and friends will kill Apple’s iPad’
I think I’ve mentioned this once or twice before, but it bears repeating until it sinks in: the Apple iPad is not unique…
Barnes & Noble preps eReader app for Apple iPad
Barnes & Noble has confirmed that they will soon be adding…
RUMOR: Apple’s iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support for third-party apps
Apple has developed a ‘full-on solution’ to multitasking on the iPhone OS…
Pink Floyd wins court battle to stop EMI from selling individual songs online
Pink Floyd have won a High Court battle to stop their record label EMI selling individual songs online…
Who fatally wounded Microsoft? Bill Gates
Why has Microsoft found itself in third place, behind Apple and now Google…
PC Magazine’ Segan: Apple’s iPad could kill the Mac
The Mac’s greatest enemy may not be Microsoft Windows…
Carlos Slim displaces Bill Gates as world’s richest man
Mexican tycoon Carlo Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth…
Behind the scenes of tomorrow’s Apple iPad launch
In the run-up to the April 3 launch of Apple’s iPad tablet computer, all appears calm, but…
Apple’s Mac dominates Consumer Reports desktop and notebook support rankings
Consumer Reports today gave Apple a major lead in its rankings for both desktop and notebook technical support…
Palm Inc. circles the bowl (The Death of Hubris in Sunnyvale, CA)
Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market…
Serious gaming returns to Apple’s Macintosh platform
Some serious PC gaming is about to come to Macs, with Valve announcing that its Steam platform…
Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs
Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $1.82, or 0.82%, on volume of 20,428,109 shares…
RUMOR: Apple to release Mac Pro ‘hexacore’ Xeon Core i7-980x on Tuesday, March 16
Apple is set to revamp its high-end Mac Pro line, adding a ‘hexacore’ Core i7-980x model…
Autodesk Maya 2011 goes 64-bit on Apple’s Mac OS X
Autodesk has announced Autodesk Maya 2011 software…
AT&T: We’re working hard to make iPhone tethering available ASAP
AT&T has failed to deliver the tethering to iPhone users as promised within a reasonable amount of time…
Analyst: Apple iPhone could overtake RIM’s BlackBerry in market share by next year
Apple and Research in Motion, with their well-known iPhone and BlackBerry mobile phones…
ARM expects over 50 new iPad competitors to launch this year
The launch of Apple’s iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year…
Game developers consider jump to Mac after Valve’s Steam comes to Mac OS X
The announcement that the Steam gaming service and Valve’s line of games…
How Apple’s iPad changes everything
Will Apple’s tablet usher in a new era of computing, or simply dominate it?
How Epic fit the Unreal Engine into Apple’s iPhone
Epic showed off a working version of UE3 running on an iPhone 3GS…
Chinese tablet maker threatens, then rips off Apple with iPad knockoff
The publicity whores at China’s Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again…
Google working on Android-powered set-top box with Dish Network
Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp…
Xerox PARC pioneer turned Microsoft researcher Charles Thacker wins Turing Award
Mr. Thacker, 67, was a member of the storied crew who shaped the future of computing…
Apple’s iPad + Hollywood
Yes, Steve-o really was at the Academy Awards ceremony, looking dapper in a classic black tux…
Windows malware found on HTC Android phone; Macintosh and iPhone unaffected
An employee at Spanish antivirus firm Panda Security received a new Android-based HTC Magic…