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The Product As I reviewed this product the song “Old MacDonald Had A Farm” kept running through my head.  Instead of chicks and cows I was humming “here a nano, there an iPod, here a camera, there a GPS, eieio.” Must have something to do with spending the weekend with a 3 year old. Be…

Mr. Jobs’s health has been the subject of much observation, commentary, speculation, and concern, especially following a six month medical leave-of-absence he had to take one year ago, and during which he had liver replacement surgery. “While he remains thin and talks with acquaintances about his struggle to put on weight,” the magazine reported, “[Mr.]…

What Is It  Motormouse – The computer mouse for anyone who wishes they were out on the road in a sports car instead of sitting in front of a computer screen.  By now I bet you have seen at least one mouse in a store somewhere that was shaped like something other than a traditional…

According to CrunchGear, Landor Associates is working on a marketing campaign for Verizon to promote the iPhone on the company’s cell service network.If true, then the notion that AT&T’s exclusive deal with Apple runs through 2012 is off base. The cell service provider struck a five year exclusivity deal with Apple when the iPhone was…

The Chronicle’s points out that its numbers are rough and contain a lot of assumptions, but the base assumption based on numbers from other developers is that Apple is selling roughly 7,500 copies of each app on both weekend days, and 2,500 copies of each app per weekday. At $10 per app – an amount…

A Simple Home Network To better understand what’s going on with the AT&T 3G MicroCell and how it works, let’s first take a look at some basic home network configurations. Figure 1 is a very simple home network. Many home users have something like this, and the only thing simpler would be to direct connect…

Some AT&T customers have the misfortune of living or working in an area where the 3G wireless signal is weak, and it’s difficult or impossible to make a mobile call. To solve that problem, AT&T has introduced the 3G MicroCell, a device that plugs into a broadband connection, connects on the Internet via VOIP and…

iSkin has released a couple of new case designs for the often overlooked iPod touch. Each offers some unique features that should appeal to the touch aficionados.touch Duo The primary feature of the first one, called the touch Duo, is a polycarbonate ViSOR™ that snaps over the face of the unit when not in use…

INTRODUCTION Apple introduced AirPort wireless technology, aka WiFi, to the masses at the 1999 Macworld Expo in New York City. Since then, there have been many advances in the WiFi technology, which started with a modest throughput of 11 Mbps using 802.11b, then 54 Mbps using 802.11g, and 240 Mbps and beyond with 802.11n. One…

Lala says goodbye Apple purchased Lala at the end of 2009, and at the time analysts speculated that the deal was part of a bigger plan to host iTunes music through a cloud-based service instead of only on user’s hard drives. The Lala Web site isn’t offering any hints about what’s in store. The Web…

Apple has been holding meetings with advertisers to push the iAd network, which was unveiled at the company’s iPhone OS 4 media event, and is expected to launch as early as June. According to The Journal, ad execs have been crowding those meetings to learn more about Apple’s offering. Despite the seemingly high price tag,…

Mr. Jobs’s comments echo many of the ideas that have been floating around the Internet and tech circles for several months. He starts off by weighing in on Adobe’s claims that Flash is an open system.“Adobe’s Flash products are 100 percent proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to…

Palm is known for helping kick start the PDA industry with its Palm Pilot electronic organizer, its Treo smartphones, and most recently for its webOS and Pre smartphone. The Pre and the followup phone, the Pixi, however, haven’t been selling as well as the company had hoped.Palm has been suffering from poor sales of its…

In most years, the WWDC is announced months ahead of time. This year, Apple is giving us little more than a one month heads up. What took Apple so long? Why the delay? I have no idea. Apparently, neither does any one else (outside of Apple). Perhaps there was some internal debate has to exactly…

The email link directs users to a Web site that looks just like Apple’s iTunes download page where victims can download what appears to be an updated version of the iTunes application for Windows, but instead is an installer for the malware BitDefender is calling Backdoor.Bitfrose.AADY. Once installed, attackers can potentially gain access to the…

The event, which was founded by WSJ tech writers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, offers attendees a unique insight into the featured guests because they are interviewed in unscripted and unrehearsed sessions in front of live audiences.Other guests scheduled to appear at the event include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, movie director James Cameron, HTC CEO…

The advantages of HD radio, especially for car receivers, are numerous. A Crutchfield Web page offers a good summary of the benefits. At the top of the list is the increased quality of reception. You get “FM radio with near CD-quality sound and AM radio that sounds as good as traditional FM.” I recently decided…

The first thing you notice about this new product is the size. It is approximately 1.5 inches long and .75 inches wide and feels like it doesn’t weigh anything, yet it works well.   Using The Product I tested this headset walking around my house and on a road trip. For testing purposes I wore it for…

According to Elan, the multi-touch technology Apple uses in the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, MacBook Track Pad and Magic Mouse all infringe on patents it owns and controls.  “Our goal is to protect our technology and to stop sales of those products in the U.S.,” commented Elan spokesperson Dennis Liu.Elan previously filed a lawsuit against Apple in April 2009…

It appears that HTML5 support is available for most new videos, and that many older uploads still rely on Flash.Facebook’s decision to support HTML5 looks to be only the latest in a growing list of companies that are either adding the open standard to their streaming options, or are dropping Flash support completely. Adobe has…

I have been a little dismayed at this former and troubled by the latter. For one thing, as long-time TMO curmudgeon Bosco (A.K.A Brad Hutchings) pointed out, what Gizmodo and the prototype’s finder are guilty of most in the eyes of those seemingly most hungry for blood is spilling Apple’s secrets (and in this case…

Steve Wildstrom did the homework that the rest of us should have done, however, and actually dug into the issue. According to his research, which TMO has verified, the iPad is allowed at all three schools, but is facing some technical hurdles getting onto their networks. George Washington University: The school’s iPad and Network Connectivity…

“There’s a rumor saying there will be a Mac App Store and no software without authorization from Apple will run on Mac OS X,” Mr. Valente asked, according to a copy of the e-mail published by MacStories. “Is that true?” Steve Jobs’s one word answer? “Nope.” The question may be one of logistics, even for…

According to CNET, The Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team of Santa Clara County, also known as REACT, is looking into the incident, which unfolded earlier in April. The site reported that it is not yet known if the probe is aimed at Gizmodo, its parent company Gawker, or the person who found the phone and…