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Apple will reject apps using GPS for location-aware ads
Monday, February 08, 2010 - 01:26 PM ESTApple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location-based information... [Full Story]
Apple’s rejection of Adobe Flash could signal Flash’s death knell
Monday, February 08, 2010 - 12:51 PM ESTImagine the Web without Flash... [Full Story]
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Why Apple’s iPad supports VGA video output
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Monday, February 08, 2010 - 09:33 AM ESTThe latest versions of the Mac virtualization products from Parallels, VMware, and Sun offer significant improvements.. [Full Story]
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Why and how Apple killed the $9.99 e-book
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Mossberg discusses Apple’s ‘wicked fast’ iPad on the Charlie Rose Show
Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 09:09 AM ESTThursday’s Charlie Rose show featured a discussion with Walt Mossberg... [Full Story]
Apple’s business power may help it win European ‘iPad’ trademark
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 05:52 PM ESTApple's power in business may help it win the right to use the iPad name in Europe... [Full Story]
Doubt cast on survival of music label EMI
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 05:43 PM ESTEMI’s auditors have raised 'significant doubt' about its ability to continue as a going concern.. [Full Story]
Adobe CTO promises Flash 10.1 Mac performance will be almost a good as Windows Flash
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 04:40 PM ESTAdobe's chief technical officer, Kevin Lynch claims that Flash 10.1... [Full Story]
Federal court rules beleaguered Dell must defend suit alleging defective notebooks
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 03:57 PM ESTA federal appeals court reinstated on Friday a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing Dell... [Full Story]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off iPad to TIME Magazine execs
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Mozilla overlooked malware-laced Firefox for WIndows add-ons; Macintosh unaffected
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 02:16 PM ESTTwo Firefox add-ons available for months on Mozilla's website infected users with malware that stole passwords... [Full Story]
Google’s rebadged HTC ‘Nexus One’ sales slow; Just 80,000 units sold in first month
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 01:18 PM ESTGoogle Inc. sold just 80,000 of its rebadged HTC 'Nexus One' mobile phones in its first month on the market... [Full Story]
Apple to developer: Remove ‘Android’ from your app description
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Jilion releases SublimeVideo HTML5 video player, no browser plugin required
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 11:00 AM ESTJilion has released SublimeVideo, an HTML5 video player that works in Safari, that offers HTML5 video goodness, no browser plugin, no Flash dependencies... [Full Story]
Microsoft finally gets around to patching 17-year-old Windows bug
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 10:38 AM ESTA 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update... [Full Story]
Hachette joins Apple’s anti-Amazon book club
Friday, February 05, 2010 - 10:16 AM ESTHere’s another publisher publicly throwing its weight behind Apple–and against Amazon–in the e-book pricing war... [Full Story]
BusinessWeek’s Hesseldahl: What if Apple’s iPad fails?
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Apple ‘A4’ chip spells trouble for Intel’s mobile push
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AT&T okays SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone app use over 3G network
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 05:24 PM ESTAT&T today announced that its 3G mobile broadband network will support Sling Media, Inc.'s SlingPlayer Mobile app... [Full Story]
Steve Jobs in secret New York meeting with top New York Times execs
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Google said to be working with US National Security Agency to help it ward off cyberattacks
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 04:21 PM ESTThe world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization... [Full Story]
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SolidWorks coming to Mac OS X?
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 02:40 PM ESTSolidWorks version 6.0, a competitor of ArchiCAD, will soon be available on Mac OS X... [Full Story]
Sydney Morning Herald’s Barker: ‘Apple again dictates the future with iPad’
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 01:33 PM ESTSome critics missed the core point about Apple's iPad, just as some underestimated the iPhone and the potential of the iTunes App Store... [Full Story]
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Apple takes on Intel
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Obama’s White House staff armed with Apple MacBooks (with photo)
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 11:37 AM ESTWhite House staff and others use Apple MacBooks to monitor Barack Obama's live interview... [Full Story]
Apple patent applications detail ‘intelligent bezel’ and ‘sense line controls’
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Microsoft’s dysfunctional corporate culture doesn’t bode well for the company’s future
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 09:49 AM ESTThere are very few instances where having the most market share equals the best-in-class product... [Full Story]
Apple brings iTunes Preview to iPhone and iPod touch; users can browse apps in browser
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 08:40 AM ESTThis morning, Apple activated the iTunes Preview feature for iPhone and iPod touch apps... [Full Story]
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Mark Cuban: ‘Apple’s iPad going to be huge hit; Will change how kids grow up’
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Needham analyst Wolf: Apple will sell 2 million iPads in fiscal 2010, 6 million in 2011
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