Yesterday, Microsoft took the plunge into the tablet market, unveiling its Surface tablet. The Surface is positioned to go head-to-head with Apple’s iPad. There are two Surface models, the Surface for Windows 8 Pro and the Surface for Windows RT. As its name implies, the […]
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Today, Verizon Wireless announced their much anticipated shared data plans. Share Everything Plans include unlimited voice minutes, unlimited text, video and picture messaging and a single data allowance for up to ten Verizon Wireless devices. In addition, the Mobile Hotspot service on all the devices
Today’s WWDC keynote address was packed full of new and improved products from Apple. Topics included updated MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros along with a new MacBook Pro with Retina display. There were also updates on Mountain Lion and iOS 6. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook
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Reports have been circulating that more than 6 million hashed user passwords have been stolen from the popular LinkedIn site and posted on the internet. LinkedIn representatives initially failed to confirm the stories, responding by saying… the matter is currently under investigation. They have now
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When I was ready to buy my first smartphone, I chose the Motorola Droid over the iPhone, mostly because the Droid featured a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. I had gotten used to having a full keypad after owning three feature phones that either slid-out or flipped-open
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To paraphrase the famous quotation from Mark Twain – it appears the reports of Yahoo’s passing have been greatly exaggerated. Yes folks, Yahoo is back! With a nice innovation which I’m sure they’ll be hoping can make some inroads into Google’s seemingly impervious domination in
Apple’s iPad still remains, by far, the tablet market leader. As reported by ABI Research, Apple shipped 11.8 million of iPads in the first quarter of this year. The colossal iPad sales were due to the release of the 3rd generation iPad as well as
Ahead of his keynote address at next month’s WWDC, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook kicked off All Things Digital’s D10 executive conference, sitting down with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to talk Apple. Below are some of the more interesting excerpts of the discussion. For total
Jonathon Ive is now Sir Jonathon Ive, Knight Commander of the British Empire, having received a knighthood yesterday for creating products such as the iPad. Ive joined Apple in 1992 and, since 1997, he has been Apple’s design guru who was instrumental in the creation
As reported by the Mac Observer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. Book publishers, in general, continue to struggle in making the transition from an exclusively printed format to the business model that includes a significant market for eBooks. Textbook
The music industry loves to tell us all how piracy has destroyed their business. They often equate downloading a song to stealing a car, or other absurdly exaggerated metaphors. While it may be true that physical cd sales have gone down significantly over the last
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Apple released iOS 5.1.1 this week. According to Apple’s release notes, the following issues were addressed with this release: — Improved reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut. — Bug fixes for issues that could prevent the new iPad
Sophos, the highly regarded U.K. security software company, has just announced the discovery of a serious privacy leak emanating from the popular Firefox add-on ‘ShowIP’. According to the Mozilla add-on page, there are currently 169,000 people utilizing ShowIP. Here is ShowIP’s offcial description: “Show the
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Though, technically, not ‘tech news’, I think this is pretty interesting. Paul Miller of The Verge, is off the Internet for a year, starting today. No social media, no Internet, no gaming. He’s going ‘old school’ — libraries, dumbphone, thumb drives (if they can be
