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During its quarterly earnings call today, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer focused a lot of attention on what the company is now calling its “pocket products.” That is, the iPhone, the iPod touch and the iPod. You’ll notice that Apple has taken to separating out the iPod touch from the rest of the iPod line. And [...]

Update: The Windows 7 development team announced on their blog this afternoon that the operating system has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows 7 Build 7600 (7600.16385.090713-1255) has been signed off as the official RTM build. Windows Server 2008 R2 which was being developed in parallel also went RTM today. Microsoft has confirmed it does [...]

Microsoft today announced that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have hit the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone. The software giant still has a lot of work to do, but the bigger responsibility now falls to OEMs that must get PCs ready, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that are testing their new apps, and Independent [...]

Google’s Engineering Director has promised that its forthcoming Chrome OS will see ‘the end of malware’. Google is promising what the latest issue of New Scientist magazine refers to as “a carefree antivirus nirvana” with its forthcoming Google Chrome OS. Linus Upson, Google’s Engineering Director, has promised the company is: “Completely redesigning the underlying security [...]

Rumors are swelling that some parties may have taken Apple’s secrecy policy to the extreme, causing one 25-year-old employee at Foxconn, the manufacturing company for the iPhone, to commit suicide. According to ND Daily, Sun Danyong, who had been handling a shipment of 16 iPhone prototypes, was set upon by Foxconn’s Central Security Division after [...]

This is exciting news. Need to get my order in now. Sure, you know Shure, the audio company best known in the consumer realm for its line of high-end, in-ear buds. The company’s moving out, introducing three new over-the-ear headsets said to offer “professional” audio quality at prices that are a fraction of some of [...]

An amazing new photograph showing Neil Armstrong’s face through his space suit visor has come to light on the 40th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing. The image was shot by the movie camera mounted on the lunar lander famously called ‘Eagle’, but the frame lasts for only a fleeting moment. It shows Armstrong’s [...]

For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who actually paid for their music. Now, in a shocking turnaround, the outfit seems to have come to the realization that DRM does more harm than good and has officially declared its death. Read the story: [...]

Mozilla has confirmed that it will release the first update for Firefox 3.5 later this week to address a critical security vulnerability disclosed a couple of days ago that could lead to malicious code execution. The update will most likely also address a bug related to slow startups due to large Windows temporary folders being [...]

It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems [...]

I really did think CompuServe was gone. Apparently they had not, but now it looks like they have. Not really upset about it. A little piece of Internet history has now been laid to rest, as CompuServe was shut down for good just before this Fourth of July weekend. After some 30 years of service, [...]

If you have used the VLC Media Player before, you know what it is and how great it is. If you have never used it, then you need to download it. This is one impressive media player.

Looks like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk are out of beta! I thought at first it was only Gmail that went out of beta. Interesting they all went out at the same time. Tags: Gmail, Google, Google Apps

As of today, Gmail is no longer in beta. This is BIG NEWS. Tags: Gmail, Google