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iTablet – $800 LED or $2000 OLED?

Michael W. Jones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:59:59 +0000

This week’s rumors about the Apple iTablet increasingly center around the touchscreen technology, with the options being LED or OLED, and with the tablet price up in the air between the two.

The basis for the latest rumors is the report [...]
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Hackintoshers bring back Atom support

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:40 +0000

Let the games begin! When Apple left support for Intel Atom processors out of Mac OS X 10.6.2, we all knew it would be a matter days before savvy netbook users would re-instate the functionality and now that’s exactly what’s happened—rock on.

Russian-language Tea Blog (via Yahoo Yech, Google translation) reports [...]
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Jobs personally denies developer’s name change request

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:49:24 +0000

After receiving a legal snot-o-gram from Baker & McKenzie asking his company to change the name of one its applications so it would no longer contain the word “iPod,” Little App Factory CEO John Devor decided to take matters into his own hands and write Steve Jobs personally. Surprisingly enough the Apple CEO [...]
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Tablet, tablet, will Apple have a tablet?

Michael W. Jones — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:44:57 +0000

While a major magazine publisher announces big plans to bring its products to Apple’s fabled tablet computer, the Apple iTablet is now rumored to be delayed until the latter part of 2010.

Although it may seem difficult to delay a product [...]
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Apple working on OS X 10.7

Michael W. Jones — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:52 +0000

Never a company to rest too long on its laurels, even if they include record operating system sales, Apple gives every sign of being hard at work on the next big cat, OS X 10.7.

Of course, Apple started on the architecture [...]
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Apple portables better than average, not tops says survey

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:47:06 +0000

A warranty intermediary says that HP has the worst reliability and Asus the best when it comes to notebook computers. And — this should come as no surprise — netbooks are 20 percent more likely than full size laptops to break in the first year.

SquareTrade, a company that sells warranties [...]
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Odd Apple patent for embedded OS ads

Michael W. Jones — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:56:39 +0000

Apple recently applied for a patent which describes a method by which the manufacturer of an operating system could disable certain OS functions until the user looked at an advertisement.

It is very difficult to tell where this may lead, but [...]
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Apple’s Black Friday specials leaked

Ronald O Carlson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:22:50 +0000

Historically, Cupertino hasn’t been particularly generous when it comes to special holiday deals, especially not straight discounts. According to a rumor making the rounds, that could be changing this year and in a big way.

Boy Genius Report (BGR) says one of its sources, without providing any details, has delivered a [...]
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Apple’s Mac tablet is already a game changer

Ronald O Carlson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:34:08 +0000

No one satisfies with vaporware like Apple. This device hasn’t been seen let alone used by anyone, but pundits of every stripe are tripping over each other to declare the Mac tablet, a.k.a. iPod touch on steroids, the next insanely great thing from Steve Jobs and his merry band of elves.

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Apple still on a retail roll

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:03:05 +0000

It appears that Apple will continue to buck trends, this time planning to open as many as 50 more retail stores in the teeth of the recession, at a time when most companies are closing locations instead.

The global recession, which has [...]
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