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The NE-700X earphones from Nuforce have a solid, well balanced sound and they present with a very sophisticated look that should particularly appeal to adults. The color is called Aqua Silver. NE-700X EarphonesThe stereo earphones work all versions of the iPhone except the first generation and with any other device that supports 3.5mm stereo in…

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be hard to come by in AustraliaThe agreement, according to Bloomberg, means Samsung won’t advertise or sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia until the lawsuit has been resolved, or the court grants approval for in-country sales. In exchange, Apple will pay Samsung an unspecified amount should it lose the…

This is just too funny. It’s a story about how McDonalds is rolling out Wi-Fi in its restaurants and has provided a nice quick tip sheet for its customers on how to connect. Compare Windows XP and Vista instructions on the left to the Mac version on the right. I can just see customers thinking…

An Apple Store by Any Other Name… The news around the fake Apple Stores in China has turned into drama around the fake Apple stores in China. A Reuters piece from last weekend had people who’d bought stuff from the store freakin’ the frak out once they learned that those genuine Apple Stores at which…

The free concert film stream is to promote the addition of both the album from the event and the concert film to iTunes. Apple said that the album will include an iTunes LP version with special features and other material from the concert. The Concert for Bangladesh was a one of the first major charity…

In other words, Mozilla wants to free us from the tyranny of not only proprietary smartphone OSes like Android and Windows Phone, but whole widget devices like Apple’s iOS ecosystem, too. The group thinks it can accomplish this mission with an open source OS and Web apps. In a blog post announcing the project, the…

“We have to sit down and figure it out,” Mr Yung told Bloomberg. “We’re open to having discussions.”HTC says it wants to negotiate with Apple over patentsApple recently won a ruling with the U.S. International Trade Commission that says HTC is infringing on two of its patents, which could potentially lead to an import ban…

In an interview with Fortune published over the weekend, Mr. Miller said that he found these controller chips all used default passwords, and that with this knowledge, a hacker can learn how to reverse engineer the firmware Apple uses to program and control the chips.Security Researcher Charlie MillerPhoto by Garrett Gee, posted to Flickr “These…

Mr. McAdam is set to become CEO of Verizon next week, as Ivan Seidenberg leaves the position to become the chairman. CNBC asked Mr. McAdam to explain where future revenue growth was going to come from for Big Red, asserting that some investors have been concerned about that subject. As part of that line of…

 BI/SAI chart of the dayBut there’s an even better way to display this chart, and it hasn’t been lost on Horace Dediu at Asymco. In a revised version of this chart, he’s grouped together the OS X and iOS related products. It looks like this:Asymco versionThis second way of looking at the chart is even…

“Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a statement. “Lion is a huge step forward, it’s not only packed with innovative features but it’s incredibly easy for users to update their Macs to the best…

The titles: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server iLife iWork Aperture Apple Remote Desktop Xsan GarageBand Jam Packs Mac Box Set Of those, three of iLife’s component apps, iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand, are on the MAS, as are Pages, Keynote, and Numbers from iWork. Aperture and Apple Remote Desktop are…

Lion will be available on USB drives come AugustLion borrows several iPad interface features such as multi-touch gestures for navigation and app selection, a homescreen-like Launchpad for organizing apps, and full screen view for individual apps. It also takes advantage of Mission Control for quick access to other applications and application windows, includes system-level support…

  Apple has seven directors on its board, including Mr. Jobs himself. According The Journal’s sources, some of the other six directors (likely the independent ones), talked to high-powered executive recruiters to discuss their options. The report is somewhat contradictory, in that the beginning of the article characterized these meetings as “more of an informal…

The case was part of a back-and-forth battle between Apple and Kodak relating to digital cameras in Apple’s iPhones. Kodak has been quite successful in using ITC complaints and lawsuits in forcing companies to pay licensing royalties for some key patents that Kodak owns. Today’s ruling concerned counter claims that Apple had filed in response…

Many U.S. readers may not realize that Nokia was until quite recently the top smartphone maker in the world, and is still the top mobile handset manufacturer. Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform have swiftly surpassed Nokia in recent months in the smartphone market, a trend accelerated by Nokia dumping its own Symbian OS in…

There are several ways that you can start a search of this type, but I think the easiest is to go to images.google.com and click on the small camera icon on the right of the search bar. When you do so, you’ll have the option to either upload an image from your computer or paste…

Flurry’s data is a subset of all iOS and Android app development, as it comes from developers who use the company’s platform-specific SDKs to add Flurry analytics tracking to their apps. That said, the company claims a total of 45,000 developers who have embedded Flurry’s tools in some 90,000 apps, a significant sample from both.…

Apple pays up 1 million won in iPhone tracking lawsuitThe Korean lawsuit followed public concern over reports that the iPhone was keeping detailed logs showing the locations users have visited. Apple said that the location data stored on user’s iPhones wasn’t being downloaded, and added that the local database was filled with nearby cell towers…

With so many reports claiming Lion will be available tomorrow, coupled with the unexpected downtime at Apple’s online App Store and the seemingly last minute maintenance at iTunes Connection (Apple’s portal where developers manage the apps they offer through the App Store), it sure looks like the stars have aligned for a Thursday Lion launch.…

Microsoft opened its first retail store in 2010, and since then the company has opened ten more in California, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, and Georgia. The expansion the company plans is concentrated on the East (mainly the Northeast) and West Coast, in Florida, and in Texas. During Wednesday’s WPC 2011 Day Three keynote,…

Too bad for me. Quicken 2007, or any older version, will not run under Lion. Why? Because Quicken 2007 remains a PowerPC program and thus requires Apple’s Rosetta software to run on Intel Macs. Unfortunately, Apple is not supporting Rosetta in Lion. So, after upgrading to Lion, it’s adios to my old Quicken.There is a small window…