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Google Glass had a nifty sci-fi feel to it when the product first came out. Along the way, however, Google apparently failed to fully appreciate both why the product should exist in the chosen form and the social aspects of the device. Calls for Apple to quickly follow Google's lead now look silly. ______________________ The…

Heartbleed potentially exposes server encryption keys What is Heartbleed? Heartbleed is a code flaw in OpenSSL's hearbeat function that lets hackers trick a server into handing over its private encryption keys. With those keys in hand, hackers can decrypt information that's passing between servers and user's computers without any detection. They can also potentially use…

Amber Cottle, Apple's new lobbyist Image Credit: Forbes Ms. Cottle's experience and connections will come in handy for Apple considering the company has become more vocal in Washington. The company openly supports corporate tax reform, CEO Tim Cook has even met with President Barak Obama to discuss online privacy and NSA surveillance. Apple also recently…

“Here's to the cracy ones…” (Author's archive) Often, constancy of purpose can come across as arrogance. It's all too easy to confuse the constant dedication to a sound principle by someone with the arrogance of believing that an opinion is more valid than the opinions of others. It's a shame that confusion like that occurs.…

Perhaps never before I have reviewed a product with such a perfect name. IK Multimedia’s Bluetooth speaker — sorry, make that audio monitor — is called iLoud for a reason. It's loud. The black self-contained speaker/receiver is about the size of a box of Wheat Thins. Its all-black design is broken only a by a small…

As an incentive to attach your iTunes account to your Disney account, the company is offering a free copy of the awesome Pixar movie The Incredibles, and the timing of the launch is being used to promote current blockbuster hit Frozen. Disney Movies Anywhere Disney's information is somewhat opaque, so we took the time to…

Steve Jobs would have been just 59 years old on Monday had he not died in November of 2011. Mr. Cook's tweets note that they were in remembrance of his predecessor. The first tweet quoted one of Steve Jobs's favorite phrases, a phrase that Mr. Jobs used in his spectacular Stanford commencement address in 2005…

Analyst: New product categories may not help maintain iPhone sales growth Mr. Reitzes told investors, We believe Apple's story is all about iPhones and 'new categories' seem to be designed to make the iPhone more useful – but don't necessarily re-accelerate growth in the iPhone category to sustainable double-digit levels. Apple has been rumored to…

FCC working on new net neutrality rules with less bite The idea behind net neutrality is that service providers must transmit all data equally instead of giving certain content priority or even blocking websites. The rules that had been put into place were challenged in Court by Verizon, and a three Judge panel ruled in…

Apple said to be considering Basis purchase Sources talking with TechCrunch said both Apple and Google are in talks with Basis and that the buying price would likely come in under US$100 million. They also said that Microsoft and Samsung are showing interest in Basis Science. Basis is known for the accuracy of its fitness…

I had been looking for a quite a while for a decent Bluetooth headset that wouldn’t cost me my next paycheck. Corded headphones are nice, as I pointed out with the Zagg iFrogz Audio Coda Headphones, but nothing beats going cord-free while still having great sound and a microphone. Then Zagg sent me a pair…

Introduction – Why a $60 Stylus? Apple's iOS devices are designed to work without a stylus. There's a reason for that: Steve Jobs didn't believe in them. “God gave us 10 styluses, let’s not invent another,” he told Walter Isaacson, his biographer. And yet. There are times when a stylus is useful. Indeed splendid. It…

The Wacom Bamboo Pad is a multi-use input device, touchpad and drawing tablet with stylus. It can be used with its stylus and/or your fingers for click-tapping and gestures for computer input to replace a mouse. Plus, the stylus can be used with any drawing app. ________________________ First shipped in October, 2013, the Wacom Bamboo…

iPort Magnetic Charging Case and Stand There are plenty of cases for the iPad Air and Retina Display iPad mini, and most let you charge while they protect your tablet from accidental drops. iPort's Magnetic Charging Case and Stand for the iPad Air and Retina iPad mini, however builds charging contacts into its housing and…

2014's wearable tech: Bling that knows when your phone rings Going for the Wrist The big rumor bouncing around the Internet is that Apple is hard at work on a smartwatch product that'll take the industry by storm. It was pretty clear tech gear makers were hearing those same rumors because they all rushed to…

______________________ When the original iPad came out in 2010, its was after there had been a lot of discussion about how a tablet would fit in between a notebook computer and an iPhone. Some thought there was no room, but then they were proved wrong. The tablet concept, as instantiated by Apple, was so brilliant,…

Due to some health issues, I watched way more TV over the holidays than I ever do on an ongoing basis. I was astonished at some of the ads I saw. “Our tablet is better than the iPad”, “Our tablet is cheaper than the iPad” and “Our phone does things that the iPhone can’t do.”…

______________________________ In the days of the PC wars, in the early 1990s, Apple struggled mightily against Windows with a superior OS. But then Microsoft made a giant leap forward with Windows NT in the early-mid 1990s, leaving the technically inferior Mac OS in the dust. To make a long story short, that we know well,…