Saturday, March 26, 2011

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2011 MacBook Pro has serious [iPad] juice

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If you’ve got a PPC Mac, you can pretty much forget about charging an iPad from a USB port. Further, more modern Intel Macs only have a single port that will trickle charge Apple’s tablet. However, change is in the wind because the mothership’s most recent pro portable refresh includes a special treat [...] Related [...]

New home consoles incoming? Rumors of PS4, Xbox 720, Wii 2 abound on the Web

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Are you ready to move onwards and upwards to a new games console? No, not the 3DS, but a proper home console? Some people seem to be clamoring for it. Rumors [...] Related posts: Ex-Microsoft man predicts PS3, Wii, Xbox to be last home consoles Ubisoft: Next-gen consoles on the way Could Wii casual gaming [...]

Real Racing on your HDTV at 1080p

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You can already play many iPhone and iPad games on a big screen television, but this fundamentally different. That said, although it’s still a bit too early declare the console dead, this is definitely the beginning of the end — wait ’til the kids get their hands on it. Firemint has announced [...] Related Posts: [...]

Is $41 million ‘Color’ worth all the fuss?

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Color has already made a big splash in the tech blogosphere, but is it actually worth all the fuss? You’ve no doubt heard of Color, the new company and smartphone app which has been making the headlines, [...] Related posts: Wikipedia to begin color coding trustworthy text 750 million photos uploaded to Facebook over New [...]

Will we ever get NFC iPhone-Android payments?

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There has been a lot of noise lately about near field communications (NFC) payments arriving on our smartphones, at least the iPhone, Android handsets, and blackberries. Will it and do we care? It seems that all of the necessary parties are on line for making NFC [...]

Startup to offer 4G service nationwide

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An interesting new startup named LightSquared has given itself the mission of offering 4G mobile service nationwide. They even have a fascinating first customer lined up and ready to send money. One of the keynote presentations at CTIA this year was given by the chairman and [...]

Iranians the target of bogus site certificate scam

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A New Jersey company says it was tricked into issuing fake security certificates for nine major websites. But the attack looks not to have been an attempt to steal money from Americans, but rather to get incriminating data about Iranians. Comodo Group [...] Related posts: Twitter hit with scareware scam FTC cracks down on bogus [...]

Apple harries Intel and AMD in CPU market

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Intel and AMD have long held the lion's share of  PC CPU chip manufacturing, with Intel being the clear winner and AMD being the also-ran. Apple's entry has not changed that, but it has piqued a lot of interest. When the [...] Related posts: 95% of tablet market belongs to Apple Apple iPad to fail [...]