Last night, Microsoft unveiled its attempt to compete with Apple’s iPad. The Microsoft Surface tablet (technically Surface 2.0 because the name is repurposed from Microsoft’s original table-top touch-screen device) comes in two flavors: an nVidia Tegra 3 ARM CPU based version running Windows RT and an Intel Core i5 CPU based version running full-blown Windows […]
While some of last week’s rumors of new Apple hardware came true, other predicted updates were notably absent. Most frustrating to Mac power users and professionals is the lack of any meaningful upgrade to the Mac Pro towers. Despite earlier rumors of everything from a case redesign allowing rack mounting in a server rack to […]
Last week, I wrote up a list of what mobile operating systems I’m considering to replace my current one. My end result was Android, as its the most webOS-like solution for now. I noted that today’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) might change things vis-à-vis iOS and boy, did it. Just not in the way […]
Amidst rumors of Apple ditching Google maps in the upcoming version of iOS (6 to be exact), Google has seen fit to provide details about upcoming features in Google Maps right before Apple’s own announcement during WWDC (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference). While Google steered clear of answering any questions about Apple’s potential homegrown new mapping […]
Cricket Wireless, a regional pre-paid cellular carrier, announces they’re adding the iPhone 4 and 4S to its offerings, starting June 22. Just as the company priced other smartphones on their service, the iPhone will cost a flat $55 per month for unlimited talk, text and data (with a “fair usage” policy of 2.3 GB of […]
Nest, the learning thermostat with a techie twist, will soon be available at Apple Stores across the country, according to a report from iLounge and confirmed by 9To5Mac. Nest Labs co-founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers spent a collective 20 years at Apple working on the iPod and iPhone, with Fadell becoming known as “Father […]
We ususally avoid tackling rumors, but when the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg are all talking about it, then it’s officially time to weigh in. The rumor in question is that the next iPhone will have a four-inch screen, instead of the three-and-a-half inch screen that the iPhone has had since 2007. Bloomberg even […]
Yesterday, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a 56-page decision, denied Apple’s motion to dismiss the federal antitrust complaint filed against it, which alleged that Apple spearheaded a conspiracy among e-book publishers to fix e-book prices by introducing “agency pricing” where the publisher, not the […]
Been eagerly awaiting the HTC One X or the EVO 4G LTE? You may need to wait a bit longer, because The Verge first broke the news that U.S. Customs weren’t allowing shipments of the two HTC flagship devices enter the US. The reason? A patent suit from Apple, alleging that HTC infringed on their […]
As David Emery documented last week on Cryptome, Apple’s original version of FileVault has a serious security flaw, when used in OS X Lion 10.7.3. The authorization process has a debug option left on that logs the password used to access an encrypted volume’s directory tree. In turn, this log file is viewable by anyone […]
