Amazon Releases HTML 5 Kindle Web App
Well, this could be interesting. Amazon yesterday announced the availability of its new Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML 5 web app designed to let you read your Kindle books on...
17 by on 8/11/2011Nokia to Suspend Sales of Symbian, Feature Phones in the US
Nokia President Chris Weber announced in an interview today that the company will completely stop selling feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the US in order to focus on...
12 by on 8/9/2011Spotify Has 1.4 Million Users in the US, 175,000 Who Pay
As you may recall, streaming music service Spotify leaped across the pond to American users last month with the blessing of the major music labels. For those of you...
13 by on 8/9/2011Apple Releases Crippled Education-Only iMac
Apple today updated its education store with a new iMac for especially price-conscious schools: for $999, you can buy a 21.5" iMac with a 3.1 GHz dual-core Core i3...
31 by on 8/8/2011Intel's Haswell IGP to Feature DirectX 11.1, Increased Professional Application Support
Intel's integrated graphics processors have long had a poor reputation when it comes to gaming, and while the IGPs get a little closer to competitiveness with each iteration, that...
9 by on 8/5/2011PlayStation Vita Bumped to Early 2012 in US, Europe
If you were hoping to pick up a PlayStation Vita this holiday season, you'd better live in Japan: Sony's Kaz Hirai dropped the bad news in a Japanese press...
9 by on 8/4/2011Village Instruments CEO Promises Graphics Card Enclosure for Thunderbolt
Village Instruments CEO Hubert Chen wrote an open letter to Facebook last week, attempting to gague customer interest in an external PCI Express graphics card enclosure for Thunderbolt. He...
19 by on 8/3/2011Lion Server Supports iOS Management using Profile Manager
Mac OS X Server has long been able to manage preferences and settings for multiple Macs, but new to Lion Server is the ability to manage settings for iOS...
2 by on 8/2/2011Host Lion Install Media Using Lion Server and NetBoot
If you've got many Macs but don't want to download the Lion installer to every single one of them, and copying the installer to a DVD or USB drive...
3 by on 8/2/2011OS X Lion Server's Directory Service Can't Host Windows Clients
As we mentioned in our review of Mac OS X Lion, Apple either chose to or was forced to make changes to how the SMB file sharing protocol was...
6 by on 8/2/2011In-Depth with Mac OS X Lion Server
Mac OS X Server costs 5% of what it cost just three years ago. Whatever your needs and whatever the software’s shortcomings, this is hard to ignore. Leopard Server...
87 by on 8/2/2011Samsung to Manufacture PS Vita SoC
A report in the (Japanese-language) Semiconductor Industry News today revealed that the quad-core Cortex A9 ARM SoC for Sony's upcoming Playstation Vita handheld would be manufactured by Samsung on...
12 by on 7/29/2011Nintendo 3DS Gets $80 Price Cut on August 12
Those of you on the fence about Nintendo's 3DS, your wait may soon be over: Starting August 12, the price of the system will fall from its current $249.99...
10 by on 7/28/2011Back to the Mac: OS X 10.7 Lion Review
Apple hasn't exactly paid a ton of attention to Mac OS X since the iPhone came out. There, I said it. This was obvious even in the lead-up to Leopard...
112 by on 7/20/2011WWDC 2011: iCloud
We've already talked about Lion and iOS 5, Apple's other WWDC topics, and both look like worthwhile extensions of existing products, but Apple squeezed its most interesting announcement in...
46 by on 6/6/2011WWDC 2011: iOS 5
After giving us a look at OS X 10.7 Lion in its WWDC keynote today, Apple turned to what is seen as the more important of its OS platforms...
24 by on 6/6/2011WWDC 2011: OS X 10.7 Lion
Apple kicked of its Worldwide Developers conference this year with a keynote meant to showcase three of its biggest software undertakings at the moment: Mac OS X, iOS, and...
50 by on 6/6/2011The New 2011 iMacs: Specs and Details
Well, it’s happened again – Apple’s online store went down briefly this morning, meaning that the secretive company was stocking its virtual shelves with new product. As expected, when...
106 by on 5/3/2011Windows Thin PC: Windows, Slimmed Down
Last month, Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP, in essence a public beta) of something called Windows Thin PC. This business-oriented operating system’s given purpose is both to...
47 by on 4/28/2011Sparrow: An OS X IMAP Client for Gmail Users
If you’re a Mac power user, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Sparrow, a new IMAP client for OS X that has garnered quite a bit of...
22 by on 4/7/2011