9to5Mac believes that the iPhone and iPod touch will be seeing $100 price drops in the next two months, simultaneously discontinuing the low capacity models.
Their belief is that the 8GB Touch and 8GB iPhone will be discontinued, leavi…
9to5Mac believes that the iPhone and iPod touch will be seeing $100 price drops in the next two months, simultaneously discontinuing the low capacity models.
Their belief is that the 8GB Touch and 8GB iPhone will be discontinued, leavi…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Computerworld notes that the latest Webkit nightly builds offer considerable performance boosts over the current public Safari build (3.0.4) — with Javascript benchmarks over 2.5x faster in some instances.
While these performace boost…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Details are emerging on the deal between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. John Scott Lewinski provides links to the numbers.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Reports emerged today that Yahoo’s board will be formally rejecting Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover bid for Yahoo on Monday, according to “a person familiar with the situation”,
Formal details will be revealed Monday but one of the…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
My ZDNet blogging colleague Larry Dignan asks what Yahoo’s Plan B will be, now that it reportedly is turning down Microsoft’s $44 billion bid because it is too low. But I’m wondering about the flip-side of this equation: What is Microsoft’s Plan B if it fails to snag Yahoo?
Filed in: Microsoft
House leaders send a letter to fellow lawmakers saying they strenuously oppose handing amnesty to telecom companies that helped the government’s secret, warrantless wiretapping program.
Filed in: Personal Tech
It sounds like it’s official, Yahoo will be rejecting Microsoft’s bid to take over Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and stock. Yahoo’s board of directors is hoping that Microsoft won’t “go hostile” and just steal the company anyway. If Microsoft does goes against their wishes, it’s likely the partnership would ultimately be […]
Filed in: Google
Here’s a cool, high-tech crime-busting story out of California you probably missed: Last fall, a police officer in San Jose was driving on routine patrol on a residential street when a voice from the computer in his vehicle suddenly announced, “Stolen car!” He stopped at the parked vehicle, which authorities quickly linked to the vague description of the vehicle involved in an earlier crime.
Filed in: Personal Tech
I have been using Firefox for two years. In 2006, I used PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor antispyware, and in 2007 I used Webroot’s Spysweeper. Neither ever found anything. I use my computer for a lot of research and am a very careful computer user, but I’m concerned that Firefox does not seem to be “covered” by those programs.
Filed in: Personal Tech
For a lot of hardcore gamers, the phrase “gaming on a Mac” is an oxymoron. As recently as a year ago, if you took a look around a typical game shop, and you may have walked out thinking that despite the many whiz-bang features built into the Mac and its OS X operating systems, not to mention the beauty of Apple monitors, true gaming can only happen on a PC.
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