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Apple announced Monday revenues of more than $15 billion for the December quarter, the company’s first fiscal quarter of 2010. while traditionally the biggest quarter of the year (as illustrated in the graph below), Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted in a statement that, “If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now…

How can you not love an iPhone app that costs less than $2 but can save you a lot more than that every time you use it? That app is called RedLaser and it uses your iPhone camera to scan barcodes and get you prices for the item from Google Product Search and TheFind.  Here’s…

I should start by stating that my home and office setup is not entirely common. My office is a completely separate building, with separate power and cable (TV/Internet) feeds from the pole on the street. Between the house and office the previous owner then buried two Category 5e (Ethernet) and two coaxial (cable TV) cables.…

Award winners will receive notification during the expo, and will also be highlighted in our Editors Choice Awards round up. Our 2009 Award winners included products from Cultured Code, FileMaker, SmileOnMyMac, Google, Roxio, Softpress, The Omni Group, HP, and Ambrosia Software.”I am so pleased with how well our TMO 2009 Editors Choice awards were received…

This scenario is not the stuff of SciFi or a drug induced daydream, it’s a real possibility. In fact we are so close to that possibility that spitting in the right wind could bring this dream to fruition, or not. The technology that can bring that scene to life is called femtocell, technology that’s been…

TMO: Mr. Swasey, Nick Wingfield of the Wall Street Journal and Daniel Sorid writing for Wired painted a rather austere picture of the resources and competitive posture of Netflix. What are your thoughts? SS: Well, the Wall Street Journal article was posted about 7 months ago. Up until then, and since that time, we’ve been…

Wintek has been claiming that the strike didn’t impact production despite reports that some machinery was damaged during the multi-day incident.Some reports claimed workers were striking because they had been told promised bonuses had been cancelled, but others said factory workers were reacting to a government investigation that found no wrong doing on the part…

But Apple didn’t ask for my input, which is frankly something else to annoy me. Seriously, folks, there are so many other things that Apple has gotten right that it (usually) more than makes up for the gaffes and missteps. In my never-humble opinion, of course. For instance, Apple more or less saved the established…

The Kindle developer program will include the Kindle Development Kit, or KDK, developer support, sample code, documentation, and a software-based Kindle simulator for Mac, windows and Linux. Amazon will support free, one-time purchase and monthly subscription options for active content.Until now, the Kindle was off limits to developers, but that could be changing thanks to…

We considered this relevant because the shape of the glass if very suggestive of an iPhone, and several readers commented that the lack of scale in the image made it difficult to understood how large the glass is in the photo we first published January 11th. We received two new photos today, the first of…

IP Scanner is a program that will probe your network for all available devices on the network. Sure, you can do this if you send a ping to the broadcast address for your subnet, but this only gives you basic address information. IP Scanner goes beyond the basics and will not only show the IP…

The site offered four bounties in its stunt, US$10,000 for “bona fide pictures” of the device, $20,000 for “video of one in action,” $50,000 for “video of Steve Jobs holding one,” and $100,000 to “let us play with one for an hour.” “We’ve had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple’s impending…

I use to want to do stuff like that, and I’m still fascinated by the internal goings on in tech, but I just don’t have the time to tinker. I want my gadgets to work. End of story. When they don’t work, I want them fixed. I can and have tinkered to fix my stuff…

The appeal involves a copyright infringement suit Apple brought against Psystar to stop the Florida company from selling generic Psystar PCs installed with Mac OS X. Apple claimed that Psystar had to violate Apple’s copyrights on Mac OS X in order to trick Mac OS X into thinking the PCs were Apple-built Macs, a claim…

“In [December] 2009, the Company sold its equity interest in la la and entered into an agreement to terminate a memorandum of terms relating to the formation of an international joint venture for total cash consideration of approximately $9.0 million as part of a sale of la la to Apple Inc,” the company said in…

“Our primary interest is not to disrupt the availability of any product but to obtain fair compensation for the use of our technology,” said Kodak Chief Intellectual Property Officer, and Vice President, Laura G. Quatela.Despite Ms. Quatela’s comments, Kodak is looking to for the ITC to block the import of iPhone and BlackBerry models that…

The group based the loss figures on the number of applications sold through Apple’s iTunes-based App Store since its launch in July 2008, and an average $3 app price.So far, pirating iPhone and iPod touch applications first requires jailbreaking, or hacking the device to allow the installation of applications that haven’t gone through Apple’s review…

However, I was contacted by one of the exhibitors, Digital Playground. They were interested in having me do a few interviews with their “talent.” To make it more convenient for me to do so, they offered to get me a press press to AEE. I told them that my journalistic interests ran more towards computers…

If Apple is planning on releasing MacBook Pro models with Core i5 chips, users can expect to see substantial performance improvements compared to the current Core 2 Duo-based models without sacrificing battery life.Apple is rumored to be planning a special media event for the end of January where it may be introducing a new tablet-based…

To that end, he and his team set out to, as the title of the game implies, give players Force abilities more powerful than they had previously seen. While the Jedi Knight games, for example, let you use Force grip to throttle enemies and throw our lightsabers to eviscerate foes from afar, you never had…

Along with an earlier launch time, the fourth generation window will allegedly sport a 5 megapixel camera and LED flash, and possibly an RFID chip as well.Apple hasn’t offered up any indications that it plans to update its iPhone line up earlier than it has in the past, but a May rollout for the fourth…

He made the comment in an interview with Kara Swisher of AllThingsD during last week’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, which was posted Friday at the media outlet’s site. When asked how he views Apple as a competitor in the smartphone market, Mr. Rubinstein said, “We don’t pay that much attention to Apple….I know…

While Droid09 is a bad mark for the Android platform and the Android Marketplace, it doesn’t necessarily mean the Google’s smartphone operating system is unsafe. It does, however, show that there’s room for improvement in the app screening process at the Android Marketplace.Droid09 also serves as a reminder that other companies, including Apple, need to…

(At least one person has a more…colorful name for it, but note there’s profanity before you go clickling all willy nilly.) At long last, Google is making its own Android device, just like Apple makes the iPhone, or so the narrative I’ve been reading about the device would have us believe. Better yet, because Google…