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The Best Products we Reviewed  These products exhibit superior design and implementation. They are brilliant in concept and execution and are a joy to own. If there are any “cons,” they are too minor to be of concern. The products received a perfect 10, “Outstanding.” X-Band for iPad by TKO Solutions. This is a great…

Ms. Kare is offering the prints in 8.5” x 11” (US$89), 17” x 22” ($129), 24” x 30” ($349), and 30” x 40” ($499). The first two sizes are each limited to 200 prints each, while the two largest sizes are limited to 100 prints each. She noted that she will be signing and numbering…

Doctor Who: The Mazes of TimeThe game includes over 100 puzzles for the Doctor and Amy to solve, seven different locations, and the ability to play as the Doctor or Amy. It also includes music from the TV series, and Daleks, Cybermen and Silurians ready to fight the Doctor, along with Open Feint and Game…

“Steve Jobs built his reputation as an iconic marketer in the famous 1984 commercial for the MacIntosh [sic] computer in which Apple promises to take on ‘Big Brother’” Brian Brown, president of NOM, said in a statement released on NOM’s Web site. “Jobs has made billions taking on ‘Big Brother’ yet the irony is that…

In previous times, before the Internet changed the rules, companies would conceive of products, test them for fitness, merchantibility and safety. Then customers would make a considered decision as to whether the product’s utility compared to the price created a favorable sales proposition. Today, however, the sophistication of software and the Internet has created many…

Apple, Toshiba factory deal? Not likely.Toshiba subsidiary, Toshiba Mobile Display, already has a factory in the area, and adding a new facility would more than double the area’s display production capabilities.For its part, Toshiba claims that it hasn’t made any decisions related to a new display manufacturing facility for Apple. Apple is sticking with its…

Renewed coverage of AAPL from Goldman Sacks, which initiated coverage with a BUY rating on Sunday and a price target of $430 likely helped kick off today’s gains (see our full coverage for more information), but the broader markets were all in positive territory throughout morning and early afternoon session. The DOW was at 11,466.140,…

“The allegations in the complaint are spartan,” ruled U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman.Mr. Allen filed the lawsuit in August alleging that Apple, Google, Facebook, Office Depot, OfficeMax, staples, Yahoo, YouTube, Netflix and eBay were infringing on patents he owns that cover “the ways that leading e-commerce and search companies operate today.” The lawsuit was…

Woz told CNN he was able to get ahold of a kit that replaces the black glass front and back for the iPhone 4 with white components the seller claimed came from the same factory Apple uses to build its phones. “I saw a post and got in quick and ordered my set of parts,…

One thing I’ve learned is that being “grown up” has little to do with age, it’s more like a state of mind, and that it’s an elusive state that I’m finding that few people ever reach. The reason it’s so hard to get to is because it’s is so hard to identify, it’s different for…

MacBook Pro -> iMac. This was already done in October. My 1st generation Unibody MacBook Pro (Late 2008) with a C2D, just two cores and a slow hard disk just couldn’t keep up with all the multitasking and loads I was putting on it. Especially with Parallels. I was waiting on my computer far too…

Those games featured multiplayer game play, but only on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and they are a blast to play on the smaller devices. There are versions of those games available for iPad, but the “HD” versions that support multiplayer action. Game developers wanting to take advantage of the larger iPad screen and Game…

The man-mountain advances, sword raised, iron muscles tense. He issues a growl that chills me to the marrow. This will be painful. A while back, during an Apple media event Epic Games showed off a trailer for Infinity Blade and whetted our appetites with Epic Citadel, a free app that let us roam an impressively…

“My job there was basically to make gaming on the iOS devices fantastic,” he said. “Basically that meant looking at the technologies involved and making sure the software played well with the hardware, to look at upcoming hardware/API and say ‘Yup, that is a good thing’.”

The information isn’t Mac specific, and we don’t know if Macs were even part of what this retailer sells, but there isn’t a lot of data available yet on the reliability of this new storage format. In addition, there are any number of factors that could have skewed the data or caused spikes for any…

There is a time honored technique, around much of the world, to use sex to sell goods. And by sex, I mean something so innocent as a pretty woman selling laundry soap or something as upsetting as a glimpse of a strangled female movie star to lure people into a crime drama. Even so, the…

Windows users can find the update in the Apple Updater utility, or download it directly from Apple’s Web site. If you’re running Mac OS X 10.5.8, you can download the update through Software Update. Apple has not yet added a standalone entry on its support site for the Mac version of the update.[Update: We clarified…

While Research In Motion brought the smartphone market to life, both CLSA and Gleacher & Co. believe that the market is now dominated by iPhone and Android. RIM is in a battle for third place with cellphone heavyweight Nokia and has-been model Windows Mobilephonewhatever. The Associated Press reported that Gleacher & Co. analyst Mark McKechnie…

In an editorial titled “Double standards in Apple’s Disneyland,” Heine Jørgensen wrote for the newspaper (from a Google translation, and mind the mild profanity), “Steve Jobs, who privately is Disney’s largest shareholder, is the closest you get to a god in the engineering world. And just like God, he tries to restrict anything that resembles…

This would mark a shift in the rumored negotiations between the two companies, as Verizon previously hadn’t wanted to pay the same stratospheric subsidies AT&T pays for each iPhone signed up on its network. The telecom has also been unhappy with the notion of leaving Apple in charge of the customer experience, as it is…

El Economista (English translation) reports that Apple is considering linking its current Cupertino campus with the new facility via underground tunnels so staff can move between the buildings without crossing streets or having to go outside. The new campus will apparently be designed to be environmentally friendly as well.Foster’s “Gherkin” with a little Apple touchApple…

“The issues have to do with uses of Flash for tracking, Flash cookies for example,” FTC chief technologist Ed Felten said. “As of today, when you use the privacy controls in your browser, they don’t directly affect the treatment of Flash local shared objects.”Local shared objects is the term Adobe uses to identify Flash cookies,…

That tweet: Howard Stern on the verge of signing $600 million 3 year agreement with Apple to host an Internet/TV/iTunes broadcast. $SIRI The key is that the Mr. Stern’s five year contract with the satellite radio provider is set to expire in January of 2011. That deal was priced at half a billion dollars, as…

Depending on how Apple implements its patent, the company could ship computers with a charger plug that also includes video, network, USB and other ports that all connect via optic fibers in the charger cable. The patent also describes using the system for rapid recharging, and also covers using the MagSafe connector with mobile devices…