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Apple's Phil Schiller on the State of the Mac
— Phil Schiller walks through Apple's Mac portable lineup at the company's press event in San Jose, California on October 23, 2012 — With Tuesday's unveiling of the iPad Mini and a fourth-generation full-sized iPad, this has been a major week for the iPad.
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Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible
— We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan. It's baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that's a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products itself.
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Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It's Probably Toast
— When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn't need to read the startup's announcement to know the upshot.
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Clamshell! The Story of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time
— The Grid Compass, the first clamshell-case laptop computer — How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? — Listening to its creators doesn't work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency …
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Five Years Ago Today, the First iPhone Went On Sale
— Photos I took when I bought the first iPhone on June 29, 2007 … I quote from “iPhone Set to Struggle,” by the Guardian's Jemima Kiss. I first read the story on the day it was published, June 29, 2007.
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IPv6 Day: Only the Biggest Change to the Internet Since Its Inception
— It's only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice? — I'm betting not, and that you probably …
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Newton, Reconsidered
— A hands-on assessment of Apple's pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling. — In the grand scheme of things, 1992 is such recent history that it barely qualifies as history. When it comes to portable gadgets …
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Fact-Checking Digitimes, the Taiwanese Apple Rumor Source That Keeps Crying ‘Wolf!’
— “It's key to note that the DigiTimes has a hit-or-miss track record for nailing predictions....” — “Digitimes has a spotty track record with regard to Apple rumors...”
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Apple II Forever: a 35th-Anniversary Tribute to Apple's First Iconic Product
— Thirty-five years ago, on April 16 and 17, 1977, more than twelve thousand proto-geeks flooded into San Francisco's Civic Auditorium. They were there to attend a new event called the West Coast Computer Faire …
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25 Years of IBM's OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System
— Big Blue's next-generation operating system was supposed to change everything. It didn't. But it's also never quite gone away. — The July 1987 issue of PC World magazine featured a centerfold (!) of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).