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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Mac Os X Archive
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Huzzah! WWDC 2010 is happening on June 7
Posted on April 28, 2010 | No CommentsCould this day get any better? The annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is happening on June 7. I suspect the iPhone HD or whatever it will be called will be there and it will be protected by robots and ninjas. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 7 in San Francisco CUPERTINO, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — [...] -
China’s knockoff iPads have no one fooled… or do they?
Posted on April 26, 2010 | No CommentsPretty sure China plays by its own rules when it comes to pirated versus non-piated goods, but this story's still worth a chuckle. Ever since Apple said that it would delay international launches of the iPad in order to placate U.S. demand— the magical and revolutionary device is flying off the shelves, it seems—Chinese manufacturers have flooded their internal market with iPad knockoff after iPad knockoff. They're slightly less expensive than the real thing, but the important part is that they're available right now. Not bona fide, but bona found. I love how that makes no sense whatsoever.
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iPad banned from several American universities over ’security’ concerns
Posted on April 16, 2010 | No CommentsThree high-profile American universities, Cornell University, Princeton University, and George Washington University, have banned the iPad from their campuses. George Washington University and Princeton University call the device a "security risk," while Cornell is concerned about students chewing through too much bandwidth. So much for the iPad being the darling of higher education.
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Dolphin, the Wii and GameCube emulator, has its first post-open source release. It’s really good.
Posted on April 12, 2010 | No CommentsAround two years ago, Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, went open source. Today marks the first official release since that magical day. And let me tell you something: Dolphin works really, really well. Give it a shot when you have a chance.
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The PS2 is 10 years old today
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsIt's the PS2's 10th birthday today in Japan (where's it's already Friday). It was originally released on March 5, 2000. Bill Clinton was still the president, Triple H was the WWE Champion, and reality TV didn't even exist yet. The iPod was still a year and change away, and Mac OS X wasn't even in open beta yet. Windows XP was still months away. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist!
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JVC’s ultra-slim PC speaker for business use
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
JVC in Japan today announced [JP] the NC-SP1, an ultra-slim active speaker that's just 34mm thick and can be connected to your computer via USB. Marketed as a device that's particularly suitable for presentations, it supports Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X 10.4 machines and requires just one USB port.
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World’s first 4-port USB 3.0 port is here
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
USB 3.0 is poised to become mainstream soon, and more and more compatible devices have been cropping up in the last few months. Today computer equipment maker Buffalo in Japan has announced [JP] what it claims to be the world's first 4-port USB 3.0. This comes five weeks after VIA (based out of Taiwan) has unveiled the first USB 3.0 hub controller in the industry.
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Daily Crunch: The Spy Who Texts Me Edition
Posted on January 16, 2010 | No Comments
Here's a handful of Friday's noteworthy stories:
Text-to-donate total exceeds $10m – I think we’re onto something
New technology helps to remotely monitor the health of the elderly around the clock
Thanko’s Spy Button Camera gets an upgrade
Mathletes appreciate the Pi shower curtain
Interview: We talk to the lead developer of Plex Media Center for Mac OS X: It was doing Boxee-like stuff before Boxee was cool
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Interview: We talk to the lead developer of Plex Media Center for Mac OS X: It was doing Boxee-like stuff before Boxee was cool
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsAs far as XBMC forks go, Boxee certainly appears to have the most heat. It has VC money pouring in, flashy deals with content providers, and you'll soon be able to buy a dedicated D-Link box to more easily use it on your TV. But Boxee isn't the only XBMC-based media center that's worth your time. It's not even the first XBMC fork to go out and make a name for itself. Plex, which is exclusive to Mac OS X, was Boxee before Boxee was cool. I recently talked to the lead developer, Elan Feingold, to get a better understand of what Plex is, what it does, and where it's going. Needless to say, if you're running Mac OS X, you ought to give it a shot. It's good.
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Firefox Mobile gets one step closer to release
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments![Screen shot 2010-01-09 at [ January 9 ] 12.34.16 PM](http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screen-shot-2010-01-09-at-January-9-12.34.16-PM-630x376.png)
It's still not ready for its "official" launch, but Firefox Mobile just took one big ol' step closer to the big day with the launch of Release Candidate 2. As with the past few releases, this one's only available for Maemo devices -- namely, the N900. Don't got Nokia's latest greatest tablet? Don't sweat it - you can still play with it by way of emulation.
So what's new? Find out after the jump.
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Psystar settles with Apple to the tune of $2.7 million (but won’t pay up just yet)
Posted on December 2, 2009 | No CommentsMore Psystar news for you. We now know that the Florida-based company will have to pay Apple $2.68 million in damages over its little Hackintosh business. (That's a partial settlement, not court-mandated or anything.) Go ahead and go to its Web site: everything is out of stock!
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The Windows 7 black screen of death will destroy us all!
Posted on December 1, 2009 | No CommentsHave you run into the black screen of death in Windows 7 yet? I haven't, but that's probably because I only use Windows as a conduit to playing Team Fortress 2 and spend only as much time as I can in there. I also haven't applied any security updates to it, and that may be the culprit.
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Psystar, Apple reach settlement: No more PCs pre-loaded with Mac OS X (but Rebel EFI may be safe)
Posted on December 1, 2009 | No CommentsSome more Psystar news for y'all. You'll recall that the renegade company was more or less shut down last week, slapped with an injunction and expected to pay Apple an awful lot of money. Put all of that aside for a minute, for there's new news: Apple and Psystar have struck a deal! The deal, which ends a 17-month-long legal battle, means Psystar will stop selling computers pre-loaded with Mac OS X. This ends our long, national nightmare.
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Review: Razer Naga MMOG Laser Gaming Mouse
Posted on November 16, 2009 | No CommentsShort version: A comfortable mouse whose main gimmick will take hours upon hours of dedication on your part to fully exploit. Like a dork, I looked up the word “naga” in Wikipedia, and it turns out that it refers to “a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great [...] -
Court sides with Apple, those dudes at Psystar are hosed
Posted on November 15, 2009 | No Comments
Apple's charges of copyright infringement and DMCA violation against Psystar have stuck and, friends, things ain't pretty for the two brothers in Miami. The problem with Psystar's approach wasn't that they were crazy for trying it. It's that the were selling a counterfeit unit.
Apple contends that Psystar has violated its distribution right by offering and selling Mac OS X on Psystar computers to the public. Psystar admits that it has distributed Mac OS X (Chung Exh. 17 at 4). But Psystar responds that its conduct is protected by the Section 109 first-sale doctrine. Section 109 provides that "the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord." 17 U.S.C. 109. This provision is a limitation on the distribution right. It applies only to an owner of a copy.