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The Voyager Q dock from NewerTech allows you to access a 2.5- or 3.5-inch SATA drive with a Mac (or PC) using a conventional connection, USB, FireWire or eSATA. It's a boon for those moving on from the old Mac Pros but want to keep a SATA drive or two active. NewerTech's implementation is very…

Apple announced on Thursday that Sue Wagner is joining its board of directors, while Silicon Valley legend Bill “Coach” Campbell is retiring. Ms. Wagner is a founding partner and a director at BlackRock, a Silicon Valley asset management firm, and she was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women (#33) by Fortune in 2011.…

_______________________ When I read about issues Apple may be having with its production of sapphire, problems with the case or display or battery production problems, I assume that Apple is able to bring its own engineering and manufacturing expertise along with that of the supplier to bear. Perhaps I feel that way because I worked…

Charity Buzz has the details. Currently, the highest bid is at US$16,000. Bidding closes on Wednesday, July 16 at 2:20 PM EDT. You must bid at least $17,000 to bump the current high bid. Mr. Cue is a 25-year veteran of Apple, and lunch with him, while not likely to divulge any Apple secrets, would…

What they found will alarm you. In contrast, iPhones use a hardware encryption, so when the encryption key is destroyed on a reset, the data is very hard to recover. Not so for Android phones apparently. Here's the story: “Hard Proof That Wiping Your Phone Doesn't Actually Delete Everything.” So … I'll never forget the…

“We believe the extended replacement rates combined with new larger-screen iPhones position Apple with its large installed base for record iPhone 6 sales,” Mr. Walkley said. “We believe Apple will charge a premium for these larger-screen iPhones resulting in stable gross margin trends for overall Apple but with a higher gross margin dollar contribution due…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadells Source: Microsoft From the letter: More recently, we have described ourselves as a 'devices and services' company. While the devices and services description was helpful in starting our transformation, we now need to hone in on our unique strategy. At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the…

The two companies are fighting over terms of an agreement for Amazon to sell Hachette titles. This is the first contract from one of the Big 4 publishers to come up for renewal following a settlement two years ago between the publishers and the U.S. Department of Justice. As such, there's a lot on the…

Weak smartphone sales hurt Samsung's Q2 numbers Adding salt to their wound, Samsung also said its tablet sales were “sluggish,” according to the Financial Times. The company thought demand for its Android-based mobile devices would be substantially higher in China and Europe, but actual sales didn't live up to expectations. Samsung didn't lay the blame…

Shopping for Apple Apple's board has also been quite stable. Hand-picked by the late Steve Jobs, four members have been served for more than ten years. Two of them—former Intuit CEO Bill “Coach” Campbell and current chairman and CEO of J. Crew Group Millard Drexler—have been there since shortly after Steve Jobs returned to Apple…

First, go to Twitter and log in. When you're logged in, you'll see your timeline in the middle of the page. Click on the gear in the top right corner, and then click Settings from the menu that drops down. Why yes, that IS Neil Patrick Harris barefoot on a unicorn. Why do you ask?…

Adobe is finally making its first venture in to the hardware market, and it's doing so with the highly anticipated stylus and ruler combo it first teased a year ago. That combo, Ink and Slide, work together to turn your iPad into a full-on art tablet, but not like any stylus that's come before. At…

Apple will likely move fast to roll Beats Music into iTunes Mr. Garcha said in a statement to shareholders, With iTunes stores in 123 countries, 425 retail stores, App stores in 155 countries and an army of 800 [million] users, Apple could very quickly scale a music streaming service, given its existing reach and music…

The iFixit team said, We delved inside Apple's 'refreshed' device and found the same components we'd seen in Touches of yesteryear, but with 16 GB of on-board flash memory. So it's not really that this 16 GB variant gains a camera — instead, it loses half of its 32 GB of storage. That means the…

First off there's a new version of Android, so far without a dessert-y name, so it was referred to as “Android L.” One of the new features of this version is a feature called “personal unlock,” a rather clever way for the device to determine if it is in a trusted environment and if so,…

Samsung, Quinn Emanuel hit with $2M document leak fine Quinn Emanuel came under fire for sharing the confidential documents with Samsung that were intended only for special witnesses. Samsung found itself in hot water for then allegedly using those documents to gain an unfair advantage in its own negotiations with Nokia, and for sharing the…

The traveling Steve Jobs patent exhibit makes its way to Denver, Colorado The exhibit was created by the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum, and is on loan from the U.S. Patent  and Trademark Office. It includes massive iPhone-shaped panels depicting 300 patents attributed to Mr. Jobs before his death. The opening of the…

_____________________ Social pendulums swing back and forth. It could be women's hemlines over the years or changing attitudes about American involvement in foreign conflicts. One constant remains: whenever we go too far in one direction, there's a social backlash, and the pendulum starts to swingback the other way. Right now, we've gone about as far…

Judge Koh questions Apple anti-poaching settlement “I just have concerns about whether this is really fair to the class,” Judge Koh said, according to Reuters. Employees at several Silicon Valley tech companies filed a lawsuit claiming Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm all agreed to not poach employees from each other. The agreement,…

“Today marks another important milestone in Rhapsody’s 13-year history of pioneering new ways for music fans to find, discover and experience music,” Paul Springer, Senior Vice President of the Americas and Chief Product Officer of Rhapsody International, apparently oblivious to what the word “pioneering” means. “Finally,” he added, equally unfamiliar with that word's proper usage,…

Adonit's new Jot Touch connects to Adobe's Creative Cloud Along with its narrow tip, the Jot Touch with Pixelpoint offers 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and includes two programmable shortcut buttons. It connects to your iPad via Bluetooth 4 and works with a long list of Jot-compatible apps that are already available. Adonit wasn't the…

Apple and Samsung won't end their patent infringement fight any time soon Apple and Samsung have been fighting in courts around the world over cross allegations of infringing on each other's mobile device patents. So far, Apple has scored several big wins in the fight, but hasn't been able to make any meaningful headway in…

Analysts sour on Samsung over missed Galaxy S5 shipment goals Analysts had expected the Galaxy S5 to give Samsung's smartphone sales a big boost, but that hasn't been the case. With declining faith in Samsung's ability to compete with the iPhone and other smartphone makers, analysts are becoming more critical of the company. Shipping 15…

After this news hit, Nuance shares closed higher on Monday at US$18.76 per share, a gain of $1.66 (+9.71 percent), on incredibly heavy volume of 16 million shares trading hand. Average volume was previously just 2.3 million shares. That sent Nuance's market cap up to $6 billion, and that's before the premium that would be…