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Apple’s Shareholder Meeting: Politics-Lite, Laughs, Tim Cook
Apple held its annual shareholder meeting earlier on Thursday—it was mostly a snoozer, but there were a few highlights to…
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Apple Takes Bite out of App Discovery, Buys Chomp
Apple has reached an agreement with app discovery firm Chomp, according to a report from TechCrunch. Terms of the deal…
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Apple Updates Firmware for 2011 MacBook Pro/Air, iMac, Mac mini
Apple released firmware updates on Thursday for 2011 models of MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, and Mac mini. All of…
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MGG 383: Switching Mail Replies, Timed Macros, Hard Drive Fun & More
Dave and John kick off February’s second Premium episode with a few great tips, including one for managing reply and…
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When iPad is Included, Apple Was Top Mobile PC Vendor in 2011
Apple’s shipments of mobile PCs, including iPads, totaled 23.4 million units in 4Q11 and more than 62.8 million for 2011,…
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Apple Not Involved So Far in ‘Do Not Track’ Button For Browsers
Major browser makers will be adding “Do Not Track” buttons to their software this year, except Apple, which is “not…
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Apple Patents Method For Making Keyboards Thinner
An Apple patent filed in August 2010 and published recently, called “Single Support Lever Keyboard Mechanism,” describes various ways to…
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Preliminary Apple Shareholder Results, Board Wins Approval [Update]
Apple’s annual shareholder meeting is still underway, but preliminary results are in for the measures that were up for a…
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Apple Co-Founder Ron Wayne: Losing Millions ‘Was Character Building’
Apple co-founder Ron Wayne has spoken before about his brief 12-day tenure with the company, at the end of which…
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Apple, Foxconn, FLA Respond to ABC News Story on Labor Conditions
On Monday, an ABC News Nightline special report focused on the conditions at the Foxconn factory that makes Apple’s iPhone…
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Apple Shareholders Approve Majority Vote for Elected Directors
Apple shareholders approved a measure during the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday that requires a majority vote for approval…
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T-Mobile: Our Q4 Stunk Because We Don’t Have the iPhone
T-Mobile USA on Wednesday reported US$4.57 billion in revenue during 4Q11, down from $4.69 billion in 4Q10 as it shed…
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SumOfUs Protests iPhone Factory Conditions at Apple Shareholder Meeting
Demonstrators from the activist group SumOfUs held protest signs outside of Apple’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday to protest the…
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New Flashback Trojan Horse Variant Hits the Mac
There’s a new version of the Flashback trojan horse for the Mac in the wild, and the new variation tries…
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Edifier’s MP250 Speaker Is Perfect For Presentations
The MP250 portable speaker from Edifier is sleek, long and narrow, and jim dandy perfect for presentations that include sound.
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Shanghai Court: Sorry Proview, No iPad Ban
A court in Shanghai, China has refused to grant Proview Technology’s request to ban sales of Apple’s iPad in the…
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BookReader: a Full-featured EBook Reader for Mac
BookReader 3.8 for OS X is a mature, full-featured ebook reader for the Macintosh. It has an iBooks-like bookshelf with…
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Brandywine Hits Apple with Voicemail Patent Lawsuit
Brandywine Communications is taking Apple to court over alleged patent violations related to the iPhone’s voicemail software. The company is…
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Air Force Drops Plans for iPad Flight Bags Over Security Concerns
US Air Force officials have scrapped plans to buy over 2,800 iPads for use by pilots as electronic flight bags.…
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Apple & 5 Other Companies Agree to Privacy Protection Principles
Apple, Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Research in Motion signed a statement today with the California Attorney General, Kamala Harris, on principles…
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2011 MacBook Air Was Nearly Powered by AMD Chip
Last year, Apple considered using the Advanced Micro Devices “Llano” chip in their MacBook Air notebook computers. Designed to have…
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Microsoft Launches European Antitrust Suit Against Moto
Microsoft is accusing Motorola Mobility (MMI) of violating European Union antitrust laws in a lawsuit filed this week. The Redmond,…
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Proview Seeks iPad Ban in Shanghai
Proview Technology stepped up its aggression in the company’s trademark dispute with Apple in China. Reuters reported that the company…
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Sharper Image Computer Desk with 3-Port USB Hub: $89.99
The Deal Brothers found a deal on the Sharper Image SI2718-GPH06 Computer Workstation, which includes a 3-Port USB hub, for…
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Adobe Lays Out the Future of Flash
Despite the fact that Adobe killed the mobile version of its Flash Player, the platform isn’t dead. To help clear…
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Beatles Ringtones Come to Apple’s iTunes Store
Apple’s deal to sell The Beatles library through the iTunes Store now includes ringtones. iPhone owners can choose from several…
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Reader Discussion: Apple Share Dividend or Buyback
Several financial analysts are speculating that Apple will give investors a dividend this year, although there’s also talk of a…
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ABC Offers Apple, Foxconn Special Online
ABC’s Nightline special that looked inside the Foxconn factories that build Apple’s iPad aired Tuesday night is available for viewing…
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Apple Confirms Plans for Oregon Data Center
Apple confirmed plans to build a data center in Pineville, Oregon following the release of a land purchase report from…
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Apple Mail: Adding Links to Text
There’s nothing that Melissa Holt finds quite so ugly in her e-mails as long URLs. We know, we know, that…
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Apple Begins Encouraging MobileMe-to-iCloud Migration
Apple has begun to encourage some MobileMe customers to get on with migrating their accounts to iCloud. MobileMe is currently…
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B&N Fights Fire with $199 Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble has introduced an 8GB version of its Nook Tablet for US$199, the same price point as Amazon’s…
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Apple Customers Can Sometimes Just Say No
An endless array of technologies are thrown at us by Apple and all the other technology companies. How can we…
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Apple Extends Mac App Store Sandboxing Deadline to June 1
Apple has extended the deadline for developers to sandbox their Mac apps out to June 1st, 2012. The deadline applies…
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Microsoft Video Offers Hamfisted Attack on Google Apps
Microsoft has published a video called Googlighting to YouTube—that’s Google’s YouTube—that attempts to make the case that Google Apps are…
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Microsoft Mac Manager Denies Knowledge of Office for iPad
Microsoft’s Senior Category Manager for the Mac version of Office said on Tuesday that a version of the productivity suite…
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Messages: Why Your Chats Don’t Show Across Devices
With the release of the public beta of Messages for the Mac, it’s easier to follow your online chats when…
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Things Cloud Beta goes Public
Things Cloud, the online syncing service for the Mac and iOS Things task management apps, is available as a public…
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Reader Discussion: Proview’s iPad Fight with Apple
Proview Techology is hoping to score a big bank roll from Apple for licensing rights to the iPad name. Apple…
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CCleaner for Mac Clears Files, But with Rough Edges
A favorite utility for cleaning up Windows PCs, Piriform’s CCleaner, is now available for the Mac. The app provides a…
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Proview Ready to Negotiate with Apple Over iPad Name
Proview Technology, the China-based company that’s suing Apple over use of the iPad name, is ready to negotiate out of…
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Office for iPad Rumor Surfaces Again
Rumors surfaced in November 2011 that Microsoft was developing a version of its Office Suite for the iPad, and now…
