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Longtime Apple fans will want to make sure they’re in Georgia this April for the first ever Southeast Vintage Computer Festival, announced Monday. As part of a larger event covering vintage computers from many different manufacturers, Apple products will receive a dedicated 6,000 square-feet of display space in a special “Apple Pop-Up Museum.” The display…

Image files hidden in the iPad’s iOS 6.1 firmware may add support to the longstanding rumors that Apple will soon launch a Pandora-like “iRadio” service. As discovered by 9to5Mac Monday, several image files tucked into the device’s firmware display a radio tower icon, a plus button, and the word “buy” in the filename. The image…

Apple introduced short links for the App Store last Friday, providing developers with an easy-to-remember short URL for use in advertising. As noted by several sites, the new service made a public debut during last night’s Super Bowl as part of a commercial for the next installment of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek saga. On…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — HP was demonstrating a soon to be released inkjet printer that rivals both other inkjet and color laser printers in terms of speed. We received a demo of the unit from Larry Tracy, Manager, Business InkJet, at the Macworld/iWorld Media Preview Reception. HP Officejet Pro X551 One unique feature of the…

SAN FRANCISCO – Connected Data launched Transporter this week, the company's private data sharing and storage solution. The company first made waves with a Kickstarter effort in late 2012 to beta test Transporter, and the device is now available to the general public. Transporter essentially offers the kind of shared storage that cloud-based services like…

While Apple sold 22.9 million iPads in the Christmas quarter, Microsoft shipped only about 900,000. After returns, the sell-through might have been as little as 680,000 according to NPD and IHS. In contrast, in the first quarter of iPad sales in 2010, deeper in the recession, Apple sold 3.27 million. Recent reports from IHS iSuppli…

The previously mentioned and highly-anticipated iOS 6.1 jailbreak will be released within a week, likely as soon as this Sunday, February 3, according to the jailbreak’s development team. The jailbreak will be called “evasi0n” and evad3rs, the team responsible, has set up a website to inform the public on its progress. All recent Apple devices…

Honda and its Acura luxury line will include support for Siri’s hands-free integration, called “Eyes Free” in some 2013 models, the carmaker announced Wednesday. The 2013 Honda Accord and 2013 Acura RDX and ILX models will offer Eyes Free as a dealer-installed option. Eyes Free was introduced by Apple during the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference.…

iPhone users pay more on average for their monthly wireless data plans than those of any other phone platform, according to new research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), provided Wednesday by AllThingsD. The iPhone also has the highest retention rate among both smartphones and basic “feature” phones. The survey of U.S. consumers asked respondents…

I am very happy to welcome Smile as this week's sponsor here at TMO. Smile this week will celebrate their 10th year in business, and that is something for which all of us Mac and iOS users can be thankful. PDFPen for iPhone Our focus this week is on PDFPen for iPhone, winner of a recent…

Actor Ashton Kutcher went method in his approach to playing Steve Jobs in the jOBS biopic that debuted at Sundance on Friday. He went so far as to put himself on the fruitarian diet—an all fruit diet that Mr. Jobs employed on and off throughout his life—and ended up having to spend time in the…

Every hard disk has a Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology system buit-in, called S.M.A.R.T. It reports on the health and pending failure of a rotating disk system. If you've received an alert in Apple's Disk Utility app, but are not certain what's going on and want more information, SmartReporter can provide a wealth of information…

The independent biopic jOBS, which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, was not produced with the help of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak due to a highly inaccurate script which Mr. Wozniak described to The Verge as “crap.” Mr. Wozniak previously told Gizmodo that an interaction between Steve Jobs and Mr. Wozniak depicted in the…

As hard as it is to believe, there was a time when computers had no graphics and you didn't interact with them by swiping, dragging, or pointing and clicking. Color on a display was either black and white or black and green (it was thought that green text was easier on the eyes. The court…

A change to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act means that come Saturday some smartphone owners will be considered criminals if they unlock their mobile device without carrier authorization. Once the new DMCA interpretation goes into effect, mobile devices purchased on or after January 26 must be unlocked for use on other carriers through official channels…

Apple's earning report didn't please regular session investors any more than it did Wednesday's after-hours traders, as they sent the stock plummeting 12.35 percent to US$450.50, a drop of $63.505 per share. Analysts spent the day digesting Apple's earning report and jockeying for position in amidst all the bearish sentiment. $AAPL Chart for January 24th,…

As promised, Pebble began shipping its iPhone-connected watch on Wednesday, but in a very limited capacity. Only about 500 units are on their way to early Kickstarter backers, and only the black model is being manufactured right now. Palettes (or at least a palette) of Pebble watches are finally shipping The company promised during a…

Apple is facing the prospect of cannibalizing its own product sales, which has some analysts worried. Company CEO Tim Cook, however, doesn't see that as a problem and instead welcomes the idea. iPad sales may be cannibalizing other Apple products & that's OK When asked by BOA Merrill Lynch analyst Scott Craig about iPhone and…

Shares of Apple Inc. were pummeled in after-hours trading Wednesday as investors expressed their displeasure over the company's December quarter results and conference call. Though Apple met estimates for sales and slightly beat estimates for earnings, the company's guidance for the March quarter was substantially below Wall Street's consensus expectations. Apple reported sales of $54.5…

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer raised a few eyebrows during the company's first fiscal quarter earnings conference call when he announced the company was changing how it offered guidance to what he said would be less conservative. The implication was that Apple had been under promising and over delivering, or in other words, employing the Scotty…

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently threatened Palm with patent lawsuits as a ploy to deter the company from luring away employees. The revelation came during a hearing for a class action lawsuit against Apple, Google, and Intel from tech industry workers alleging the companies agreed to not poach employees from each other. Ed Colligan,…

The mind boggles. My mind does, at least. Peter Cohan has penned several pieces about Apple with which I disagreed over the years, but a new column for Forbes encourages Apple to fire Tim Cook as CEO and promote design guru Jony Ive in his place. His reason? Apple's falling profits. This is the actual…

I'd like to thank The focus this week is on their Power2U replacement wall outlet. The Power2U fits into most standard 16 cubic inch, 2-outlet junction boxes in your walls, has two AC outlets just like you're used to, and then also has two USB ports that are capable of 2A (10W) of charging power,…

Kariem McFarlin has been slapped with a seven year prison sentence for burglarizing several California homes including that of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Mr. McFarlin broke into the Jobs house in July 2012 and took several items, including Apple products that were used to track him down. Image credit: Santa Clara County Mr. McFarlin…