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The Kindle Fire was announced in September as a US$199 tablet based on a forked version of Android. The company built a custom interface with hooks into its digital music, movies and TV shows, and the title digital content, Kindle ebooks. The 7” device offers limited features compared to Apple’s iPad 2, but it’s been…

International iTunes Match launch: Not so goodCustomers in the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were initially able to sign up for iTunes Match on Wednesday, but that option has since been pulled. Apple has been telling customers that signed up during the brief window when iTunes Match was available that they will receive a…

Frame from Steve Jobs Speech in 1980 The video was donated to the Computer History Museum by Regis McKenna, the public relations maestro who worked with Steve Jobs throughout his career in the areas of marketing and public relations. Most of the semi-prepared segment of the presentation talks a lot about general computer industry in…

Andrea Jung Source: Avon Ms. Jung was once a shining star in the executive world. She took over the helm of Avon in 1999, and her company’s stock more than tripled during the first six years of her tenure. In recent years, the company’s stock has suffered, in part because the firm is facing bribery…

Apple may be buying another chip design companyAnobit is a chip design company, much like PA Semi — another company Apple purchased in 2006. The flash memory storage solutions Anobit designs have found their way into mobile devices and the enterprise market.The company states that its Memory Signal Processing tech ” is comprised of proprietary…

iTunes & iTunes Match The update is a 16.6MB download in Lion through Software Update. Apple has added the update to its Downloads site, but that currently resolves to the 10.5.1 download. The update is, however, available at the iTunes download page. iTunes for Windows was also updated to version 10.5.2.

It seems that OSes are always on a roller coaster. First, we get something really good, but then the developers mess with it or load up too much agenda. It sucks. There’s customer push back, and the developers relent. Then the OS gets good again. One TMO reader commented that he thought Lion was Apple’s…

New details of the case have emerged since coverage of the verdict itself. For one thing, there’s the basis for why Apple thought it could sue its way into a trademark registered more then ten years ago in China. According to documents released by the court, Apple originally bought what it thought was the worldwide…

Verbatim’s Wallet Drive looks like a standard leather wallet. It measures 4.5 by 3.35-in. It’s black with red stitching. Verbatim’s Wallet Drive  – two viewsThe drive has 640GB of storage and includes a short USB 2 cable. You do not need an AC adapter, and it is backed by a seven year limited warranty. The…

The iPad decrease has been the subject of most of the attention Mr. Wu’s research note has garnered. The analyst told clients that he was lowering his forecast from 15 million iPads during the quarter down to 13.5 million units. Behind the decrease are two main factors. The first is that he believes Amazon’s Kindle…

Poor performance? Not in my bookWhile waiting for my Kindle Touch, I began reading reviews of the new Kindle models. Most of them complained of the Kindle Touch’s poor performance relative to its cheaper Kindle 4 sibling. In the end, they recommended going with the Kindle 4.Jim Tanous, writing here at TMO, lamented: “Due to the…

Consumer Reports: AT&T has meh customer satisfactionAccording to the survey, Verizon left customers more satisfied with texting and data plans compared to other U.S. carriers. CR electronics editor Paul Reynolds added, “Our survey indicates that subscribers to prepaid and smaller standard-service providers are happiest overall with their cell-phone service.”Despite AT&T’s low customer satisfaction rating, the…

The Senator asked the companies to explain what information they’re gathering from customer’s phones, and whether or not that data is being shared, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. CNET received confirmation of the letters from Sprint on Tuesday.Carrier IQ came under fire when Trevor Eckhart showed that the software was logging all of the…

Most of Apple’s and Samsung’s legal filings and briefings have been filed under seal, but Judge Lucy Koh has released some of those documents with small and large passages redacted. What happened over the weekend is that a PDF of a document was released that contained a major flaw: Though the document appears redacted, viewers…

The problem, Mr. Coward said, is that carriers are collecting the sensitive data in a log file and passing it on.“When a piece of information is sent to us from the operation system, we do not need it to go through that log file,” Mr. Coward told The Verge. “There is no value to us…

Congressman Markey stated in a letter to the FTC:This software raises a number of privacy concerns for Android, Blackberry, and Nokia users. Consumers neither have knowledge of this data collection, nor what Carier IQ intends to do with this information. As a co-Chair of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, I am a concerned that this…

mophie’s juice pack airThe Mophie website states “mophie has determined that in a small number of juice pack air™ units (JPAT…) for the iPod touch 4th generation may short-circuit causing the unit to potentially over heat. In extreme conditions, it is possible for the plastic to deform and damage the iPod touch. You should stop…

So if you want to play along at home, open a blank document in Pages. First, insert an object that you’d like to repeat on subsequent pages—this can be your company logo, a chart, or even a text box. To pull in an image, either drag it in from the Finder or select the Media…

Artist Rendering of Al Franken’s Inquiry of CarrierIQ Senator Franken has been an outspoken advocate on privacy issues during his first term, and is the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. Earlier this year, he held a hearing (see TMO’s live coverage of that hearing for more) involving Apple and…

As a result, one of the new blights of our Internet life is the process of keeping track of our monthly data usage. Here’s how to do it with Comcast. (Note, Comcast has a complex site and there are lots of different ways to do things. I’ve picked a simple approach for beginners.) 1. First,…

Infinity Blade II for iOSInfinity Blade II takes players on a quest to discover the secrets behind the Infinity Blade with new 3D environments, new combat styles with weapons, armor and spells, dynamically changing locations, and more.The game is optimized for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, although it is compatible with the iPhone 3GS…

HP CEO Meg WhitmanPhoto by Max Morse HP might be second only to Netflix for corporate upheavals in the last six months. In August, the previous CEO, Leo Apothekar, announced that HP would be getting out of the PC business, discontinuing the recently released TouchPad, and dropping WebOS. Mr. Apothekar was dismissed from HP short…

A piece of software called Carrier IQ has apparently been installed on more than 141 million phones from Samsung, HTC. While the same is true of a lot of software, CarrierIQ is loaded without the permission of users, always runs, doesn’t show up in the list of running apps on those devices, and—this is the…