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Sometimes I think that Apple has a supercomputer in some secret complex that completely models the consumer electronics market. Imagine for a minute a digital simulation that has all the elements of the market place: customer usage patterns, the price elasticity of products, component part prices and extrapolation for the future, the average broadband speeds…

Apple’s $49 Thunderbolt cableThunderbolt is a new high-speed expansion port that uses the same connector as Apple’s Mini Display Port video adapter and can currently support up to six devices in a chain. The port offers dual-channel 10 gb/s data throughput, supports hard drives and other peripherals as well as displays, along with FireWire, USB…

Samsung takes its fight with Apple to the ITCThe filing specifically mentions Apple, along with a product list that includes “Mobile Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, and Tablet Computer.”Florian Mueller has been following the patent battle at Foss Patents.“The combination of the accused products and the defendant means…

At issue is that YGA said found a “vulnerable code portion in developer.apple.com [called] URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (‘Open Redirect’),” according to Networkworld. Turning to the Common Weakness Enumeration definition from MITRE for this term, we learn that: “By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing…

The Journey Begins We now know officially that Apple will not be supporting web site hosting after June 2012. Also, the iWeb ‘09 app hasn’t seen a major update in some time, and Steve Jobs in a purported e-mail has confirmed that Apple customers will need to find another web site builder. So, like many…

Two weeks ago, I posted an article titled “Mobile Me to iCloud: Lost in Translation.” In the column, I predicted precisely what services currently available in MobileMe would either survive or die in Apple’s move to iCloud later this year. My predictions were based on my read of the available public record combined with my…

I’ve been playing bass guitar since I was 12, and while I’ve always loved the playing music side of playing music, I’ve never been much on the lugging-equipment-around aspect. I deplored it so much, in fact, that I quit the wedding band business for a time, only coming back when the band agreed to hire…

“As soon as RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with a thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult and expensive to develop across devices,” commented Brian Hurley, Purple Forge, one of the companies that’s backing away from RIM. “What Apple scored big on is having a touch screen and…

macProVideo.com offers training tutorials on more than 50 professional (and some consumer) content creation applications for the Mac, including Final Cut Pro, Logic, Live, Reason, Dreamweaver, Aperture, Photoshop, and the like. The tutorials are professionally made and are usually hosted by professionals in the relevant industry like Michael Wohl. The eight Final Cut Pro X…

Nowadays, things are different. Apple is a fantastically successful company, loved by its customers. Apple is making a lot of money from iPhones and iPads. Apple cannot do anything wrong. So why is the Mac’s market share still a paltry 8.5 percent in the U.S. and 4 percent world wide? If Apple is such a…

Instapaper is a popular service that can be used through most Web browsers, but the company also has a successful iOS app and a popular following amongst iPhone and iPad users. With Instapaper, users can mark Web content for later and even offline viewing, in the case of its iOS app. Mr. Arment said the…

According to a translation of the blog post by English-language Chinese gadget site M.I.C. Gadget, the reporter wrote, ““This morning, around 10, Apple COO Tim Cook is spotted in the lobby of China Mobile’s HQ, accompanied by 7-8 people. Probably Cook is talking with executives from China Mobile to discuss bilateral cooperation for the iPhone.…

In its description of the series, CNBC said, “CNBC Titans profiles remarkable people who made careers turning the ‘unthinkable’ into reality and companies that grew from humble roots to worldwide recognition.” This season kicks off with Steve Jobs, but it also includes looks at Jack Welch, Proctor & Gamble, Herb Kelleher, Quincy Jones, Milton S.…

Caazorii has just introduced a new lap desk that may prove to be the ticket that gives laptop users the freedom to work in unusual places such as soft comfy couches, sitting on the grass, or in the back seat of a vehicle. Like many of you I spend an inordinate amount of time at…

Samsung looses fight for early iPhone 5 accessApple previously asked the court to force Samsung to turn over several of its mobile devices for review by its legal team, and in that instance the court agreed. The difference between the two requests is that the products Apple wanted access to were already available and not…

Apple’s 2TB and 3TB Time CapsuleLike the previous Time Capsule, the new model offers dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi, shared USB printer support, Time Machine backup support, and guest networking.The new 2TB model is priced at US$299, and the 3TB model costs $499.[Updated with Time Capsule pricing.]

The Journal also reported that the auction has been delayed until June 27th by Nortel in order to give all of these qualified companies time to advance their own talks with the U.S. Department of Justice. Nortel is hoping that the less the bidding companies are concerned about antitrust issues, the more they’ll be willing…

All Your Patents Are Belong to Us Remember Lodsys and its plan to squeeze patent licensing fees out of iThings app developers? Fortune ran a piece last week that said Apple was looking to intervene on behalf of iOS and Mac developers. The filing has Apple moving “to intervene as a defendant and counterclaim plaintiff”…

Dave Hamilton: We’re here at WWDC with Marco Arment. As I recall, you’ve had a very interesting history of developing for Apple. Is Instapaper your first real project? Marco Arment: Yeah, it really is. After playing with it one night at a time for a few years, it’s my first Apple environment product. DH: Of…

The Journal spoke to current and past employees, industry experts, and it got a look of some of Apple’s own training manuals in putting together its story. In addition to the control and focus on the details, Apple also spends a lot of time and resources on actually training its retail employees, something almost unheard…

The patents cover a wide range of technologies, including Wi-Fi, some social networking patents, and patents related to the LTE, the misnamed 4G wireless network that is being deployed in the U.S. by most of the major wireless carriers. Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, and HP had all filed objections to the very sale of the portfolio…

Dave Hamilton: I’m here at WWDC with Ben Satterfield from 23Divide Software. Let’s start with the most recent thing and go backwards. You’ve been a kind of a serial entrepreneur — if the term applies. TestFlight. A very cool platform for both developers and anyone who is working with a developer testing an app. Ben…

Office updates address Excel security issuesOffice 2004 11.6.4 and Office 2008 12.3.0 address the security related issues, and Office 2011 14.1.2 also includes additional fixes for Word and Outlook.The Office 2011 Word update improves stability when using the Template Gallery or using Advanced Find and Replace, and improves stability when using Hiragana typing mode.The Office…