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OS X Mountain Lion: 5 Most Exciting New Features
Today, Apple unveiled a developer preview of its newest Mac OS, Mountain Lion. The OS introduces more than 100 new features to OS X, and we've teased out five of the most important, most innovative aspects of Cupertino's latest release.
02.16.12
Apple Plant Conditions Better Than Others, Auditor Says
02.16.12
Apple Announces OS X Mountain Lion for Mac Desktops
Apple has announced its latest version of OS X for Macs ¿ and like all iterations of its desktop operating system, the latest version is named after a big cat. It¿s called Mountain Lion, and it will be more like iOS than ever, as Apple integrates various mobile services and moves to yearly OS updates across all its devices.
02.16.12
iPad Photo Frame Is Hit and Miss
02.16.12
Digital Doodler Doesn't Draw Inside the Lines
Wacom's Inkling, a physical pen that tracks your drawings and digitizes them on the fly, shows promise but it isn't perfect.
02.16.12
Add it Up: Crunching Numbers for Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Jeremy Lin
What do Netflix, Amazon Prime, iPhone sales, and Jeremy Lin all have in common? They're all up against the law of large numbers.
02.15.12
Apple Says Grabbing Address Book Data Is an iOS Policy Violation
Last week, it came to light that Path, a social media app for iOS, was storing user address-book data without first requesting permission. Today, Apple announced the app's actions were against policy.
02.15.12
Wildlife Control Geeks Out With Interactive 8-bit Video
02.15.12
Hands On: Motorola Droid 4 Pushes Most of the Right Buttons
The Droid 4 -- which just landed on our doorstep this morning -- carries on the Droid brand tradition by focusing on the keyboard as the phone's most polished feature.
02.15.12
5 Most Telling Takeaways From Tim Cook's Goldman Sachs Keynote
Tuesday afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook presented a keynote speech for Goldman Sachs. Cook's presentation ranged from discussion of worker abuse in China to how the iPad is cannibalizing computer sales. We listened in, and have rounded up the five juiciest reveals of Apple's roadmap and culture.
02.14.12
Apple's Labor Auditing Group: 'Our Effectiveness Is Tangible'
Yesterday, workers' advocacy groups characterized the Fair Labor Association as an ineffectual paper tiger -- a watchdog organization that's compromised by the very composition of its board membership, and incapable of improving the working conditions of laborers in Apple's overseas factories. Today, FLA president Auret van Heerden is speaking out.
02.14.12
Don't Blame Apple for Whitney Houston Price Hike
02.13.12
Ubuntu Linux Dresses Up For Biz Desktops
Canonical -- the commercial outfit behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution -- is offering a version of the open source operating system meant specifically for desktop PCs inside the world's businesses. "Ubuntu has been hot-rodded for business," says Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon.
02.13.12
Regulators Bless Google/Motorola Marriage
Google on Monday won approval for its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Inc. in both Europe and the United States, a decision that could have wide-ranging implications on the Silicon Valley giant¿s ability to take on rivals like Apple, RIM and Microsoft.
02.13.12
Apple's Foxconn Auditing Group 'Surrounded With Controversy,' Critics Say
Following ongoing public outcry and organized protests at Apple stores last week, Apple has announced that an organization called the Fair Labor Association is conducting independent assessments of worker conditions inside the factories of Foxconn, its manufacturing partner in China. Some are celebrating the move and the proposed transparency of the FLA's results, but others are dubious of the FLA's track record.
02.13.12
Gadget Lab Podcast: Path's Privacy 'Whoops' and iPad 3 Speculation
02.13.12
Upgrading a First Gen MacBook Air With a SSD
02.13.12
Apps for iPad 3: What Apple Should Demo at the Grand Unveiling
Which apps might Apple use to show off the brilliance of its new iPad 3 display? We've identified four key app categories that would be ideal for demo'ing the HD display.
02.13.12
Review: Ranger Rick's Raiders of the Lost Aardvark App
02.12.12
A Dollar for Your Thoughts: Silicon Valley's Famed Single-Digit Salaries
02.10.12
7 Things Everyone Should Know About Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D
3D doesn't add much to the first Star Wars prequel, but seeing it on the big screen may be worth it for the family.
02.10.12
Circuit Playground App Caters to Electronics Hobbyists
02.10.12
Review: Phantom Menace Bores, Annoys (Now in 3-D!)
02.10.12
Apple Patent Shows 3-D Interface Calibrated by Eye Positioning
An Apple patent titled "Three Dimensional User Interface Effects on a Display by Using Properties of Motion" illustrates how eye tracking and other sensor information could be used to display a user interface that automatically adjusts to your positioning and environment.
02.09.12
Protesters Crash Apple Stores, Demand Apple 'Manufacture Different'
Today at Apple Stores around the globe, users gathered to deliver a petition calling for Apple to make its next iPhone model "ethical." The petition's more than 250,000 signees want Apple to respond to allegations of worker abuse in its Chinese factories, and dedicate itself to developing ethical products in the future.
02.09.12
FCC Teardown Reveals Lytro Camera Secrets
The amazing Lytro camera was recently torn down by the FCC, which revealed its processor, sensor, and other innards. The teardown also sheds light on what sort of features we could expect from Lytro in the future.
02.09.12
Report: Apple Expected to Hold iPad 3 Event First Week of March
Those eagerly awaiting the iPad with bated breath shouldn't have to wait much longer. Circulating rumors and Apple's traditional iPad release timeline, the next iPad should make its public debut in the first week of March.
02.09.12

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