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The press release offers a litany of boring features aimed at business users, but it’s the wireless inductive charging option that caught our attention. The default charging option is via a standard external power supply, and indeed, that’s the only option that is available today. “In a couple of weeks,” Dell said that a wireless…

China Unicom announced on Friday that it would begin selling the iPhone on October 1st of this year, news that helped send shares in Apple higher than the $180 per share target Mr. Reid had previously maintained. While he thinks Apple will eventually release a touch screen tablet in 2010, he was more interested in…

As it was not, he is suing, and his attorney is attempting to have his suit given class action status for those others who were lied to when they bought their iPhones, according to The Pioneer Press. iPhone 3.0 and iPhone 3GS were introduced by Apple at this year’s World Wide Developer Conference on June…

Apple and Psystar have been battling in court in California for several months over whether or not the PC maker can build and sell Mac clones without permission from Apple. The company made a surprise move at the end of August by filing a similar case in Florida with the assertion that a separate case…

Apple and Psystar have been battling in court in California for several months over whether or not the PC maker can build and sell Mac clones without permission from Apple. The company made a surprise move at the end of August by filing a similar case in Florida with the assertion that a separate case…

I like the idea for several reasons. First, people who work in the Apple retail stores likely have always wanted to work for Apple. While it’s a somewhat different experience than being a software engineer on Apple’s campus at 1 Infinite Loop, playing volleyball in the quadrangle lawn, and eating lunch at Cafe Macs, it’ll…

Indeed, they might even be a good thing for Microsoft in their efforts to blunt Apple’s successful efforts to brand the Mac as less troublesome than a Windows box. Make no mistake that the odds are stacked against Big Redmond – and I frankly still expect the Guru Bar to be a joke – but…

The new fifth generation iPod nano was introduced on 09-09-09; I got my hands on one the very next day and have been using and abusing it ever since. Let me just start this review by telling you that I think it’s the best iPod nano Apple has ever made and arguably the best $149…

Yes, this one has been out for a while, but it’s worth revisiting simply because it was one of the first games that offered a glimpse into the true potential of the iPhone and iPod touch as gaming devices. The opening cinematic is beautiful, and the gameplay is engaging — I have to admit I’ve…

These sources said that those managers who were hired away were tasked with poaching top retail staff, again with the offer of raises over what Apple is paying. Together, this team of former Apple employees will have the great honor of peddling Windows and possibly managing the Guru Bar. In some cases, they may get…

Geez! I don’t know about you, but I need a vacation already. Luckily there are a few extended holidays coming up that are ideal for a road trip, and I’m a big fan of road trips. I really enjoy packing everyone into the car then taking off for points known or unknown. Of course, nowadays…

Admittedly, I have never used the iTunes Store ringtone feature much, as I prefer to create my own ringtones with other software. And now that you get DRM-free songs from the iTunes Store, the ability to independently create your own ringtones is practically unlimited. Still, as I am updating my iPhone book, I wanted to be…

A study at the University of California, Berkeley, released on August 10, 2009, entitled, “Flash Cookies and Privacy” revealed that many popular websites are using “Flash Cookies” to circumvent privacy practices by users with conventional cookies. The abstract said: “We find that more than 50% of the sites in our sample are using flash cookies…

The company’s current software lineup includes the code and text editing applications BBEdit 9 and TextWrangler 3, the data organizing application Yojimbo 2, and WeatherCal. Missing from that lineup are Super Get Info and MailSmith — the company’s venerable email client. Bare Bones discontinued Super Get Info because Mac OS X now offers similar file…

In Dream Day Wedding, players search New York City as they solve puzzles and find hidden wedding items. As they travel through the game’s 29 levels spread across nine locations, they arrange Rachel and Nate’s wedding. Bonus mini-games and other surprises are unlocked along the way, and players can use the game’s Facebook Connect feature…

iTunes has grown from a simple re-write of Sound Jam as a CD importer in 2001 to a full-blown Internet portal and money machine for Apple. The new iTunes 9 combines a visual clean-up with some new features to keep it the premiere entertainment tool for PC and Mac users. During the September 9th “Rock…

The new iPod touch model sports Broadcom’s BCM4329 chip, which is capable of supporting 802.11n Wi-Fi, although Apple is limiting the chip to 802.11g speeds. Apple is likely imposing the limitation to avoid reducing battery life.iFixit’s iPod touch tear downThe updated iPod model also includes the Samsung 339S0073ARM processor instead of the 339S0048ARM processor, and…

Aug 31: For those also interested in a nice recap of how Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) will help developers, here’s a good summary article. It’s not that there weren’t APIs for multi-threading before, it’s just that they were awkward to use. GCD overlays those APIs with a higher level set that takes a lot of…