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A trackball mouse is one of those things you either love or hate. If you fall on the love side, you should definitely take a look at the Orbit Trackball Mouse recently released by Kensington. Kensington Wireless Mobile TrackballIt works wirelessly, using a USB dongle and two AA batteries which are included. You install the…

“The front-end technology has been rebuilt in HTML 5 and together with a host of other improvements results in a much faster experience,” the Pandora Web site stated.Pandora is dumping Flash for HTML 5The HTML 5 version of Pandora includes a redesigned user interface, more robust search options, quick access to playback controls, one-click access…

According to Reuters, no reason has been given to explain Mr. Lutton’s pending departure. Unnamed sources claimed he will be officially gone from Apple, possibly as soon as next month.The timing of the change on Apple’s legal team lands in the middle of several big patent battles. Apple is currently dealing with patent infringement lawsuits…

Oracle has been seeking licensing royalties for every Android device sold, something that would turn Android from a “free” open source OS to a “not-free” open source OS, which would benefit Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and any other competitor in the smartphone business. Any form of stay in the case would put Oracle’s case in serious…

“While Apple still has growth potential in its existing markets, we believe entry into new areas (TV sets, “Genius Squad”, et al) present market cap growth opportunities,” Mr. Um said. “We expect Apple to enter the TV set market and if it achieves similar success as in the handset and PC markets, we see potential…

iPad, King of the Tablets Nearly one percent of web-surfing worldwide is done via tablet, and nearly 100 percent of that comes from an iPad. That’s the word from Net Applications. Fortune has the stat tracker saying that, as of May, 0.95 percent of web-browsing on their client sites happened on tablets, 96.8 percent of…

GetJar offers apps for Android and BlackBerry devices, as well as Java apps and apps for Nokia’s soon-to-be-defunct Symbian OS. Users can also find Web apps, some of which will work on Apple’s iOS devices. The company claims some 1,969,259,455 downloads to date, with more than 160,000 total apps and 332,472 registered developers. Between all…

At the heart of Bloomberg’s report is the idea that Apple has been forced to lower its minimum buy because the company is finding it difficult to sell all the space it has, but price decrease is specifically for a minimum buy, as opposed to a decrease in actual advertising rates. From the still-steep entry…

News that new Final Cut Pro 7 licenses will still be available in at least in some form will come as good news to production studios that can’t or don’t want to upgrade to Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). The new version of the professional video editing application received a lackluster greeting when it was…

Amazon’s Cloud Player now has an unlimited storage optionIn early May Amazon quietly and unofficially added Web browser support for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, although users were presented with warnings saying that their device wasn’t compatible with the service.Amazon’s unlimited storage deal requires users to sign up for additional storage such as the…

Apple and Samsung have been locked in a legal battle over patent infringement claims for several months. Both companies have alleged that the other’s mobile devices use patented technologies without proper licensing. Both have filed lawsuits in the U.S. and other countries.Apple asks ITC to block Galaxy smartphone at tablet importsBy filing an ITC complaint,…

HP TouchPadMr. Rubinstein is a former Apple executive who left the company to become Palm Inc.’s CEO, where he eventually orchestrated the sale of his company to HP. The HP TouchPad was the first major new product to come out of that acquisition, but it has been broadly panned in the mainstream and tech media…

“From our research,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the new version of Bing for iPad, “we know that many searches are inspired by things people see on the web. Today, it can be somewhat painful to search on a tablet when you’re engaged in reading something; just copying and pasting pieces of text…

ITC sends Kodak case back to the judgeKodak has been claiming Apple and RIM are infringing on its patents by offering an on-screen preview for photos taken with the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphone products. The ITC judge overseeing the case ruled earlier this year that the patents were invalid, Kodak appealed the decision, and now…

Consortium to Nortel: All your patents are belong to us!The company put its patent portfolio on the auction block after declaring bankruptcy in 2009.The purchase set the consortium back some US$4.5 billion. Other members of the group include RIM, Sony, EMC and Ericsson.Missing out on Nortel’s patents is a blow to Google and its Android…

Better yet, it’s based on Android 2.2, a version of Google’s platform that’s a couple of generations old. Never fear, though, because you can have your Android 2.2 device with a steel, 18-carat rose gold, or titanium finished case, and you can get it accented with rubber; calfskin, alligator, lizard or carbon leather trims. According…

Sometimes I think that Apple has a supercomputer in some secret complex that completely models the consumer electronics market. Imagine for a minute a digital simulation that has all the elements of the market place: customer usage patterns, the price elasticity of products, component part prices and extrapolation for the future, the average broadband speeds…

Apple’s $49 Thunderbolt cableThunderbolt is a new high-speed expansion port that uses the same connector as Apple’s Mini Display Port video adapter and can currently support up to six devices in a chain. The port offers dual-channel 10 gb/s data throughput, supports hard drives and other peripherals as well as displays, along with FireWire, USB…

Samsung takes its fight with Apple to the ITCThe filing specifically mentions Apple, along with a product list that includes “Mobile Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, and Tablet Computer.”Florian Mueller has been following the patent battle at Foss Patents.“The combination of the accused products and the defendant means…

At issue is that YGA said found a “vulnerable code portion in developer.apple.com [called] URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (‘Open Redirect’),” according to Networkworld. Turning to the Common Weakness Enumeration definition from MITRE for this term, we learn that: “By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing…

The Journey Begins We now know officially that Apple will not be supporting web site hosting after June 2012. Also, the iWeb ‘09 app hasn’t seen a major update in some time, and Steve Jobs in a purported e-mail has confirmed that Apple customers will need to find another web site builder. So, like many…

Two weeks ago, I posted an article titled “Mobile Me to iCloud: Lost in Translation.” In the column, I predicted precisely what services currently available in MobileMe would either survive or die in Apple’s move to iCloud later this year. My predictions were based on my read of the available public record combined with my…