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Show Me The Money: iOS Developers Also Code For Android, But Prefer Apple's Cash

A survey of developers at Apple's WWDC shows they all love the platform and its chance to earn money. No surprises there. But the survey also dug up the fact that 50% of iOS coders pen apps for Android.READ»

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What Apple Will Show Us Today: Code, Clouds, And Steve Jobs [Updated]

Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference kicks off on Monday, with Steve Jobs giving the keynote address. Here's a preview.READ»

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iFive: Sony PS Store Back, Creative Commons On YouTube, Tenn. Law Against Sharing, Apple Malware Issue, Shaq Retires On Twitter

Did you know that Thursday's officially the fourth day of the week and there's an ISO 8601 international standard to prove it? No? Well, you'll be equally intrigued to learn what's been going on in the early news with our handy summary:READ»

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Apple's iCloud, Steve Jobs Set To Star At Next Week's WWDC

Apple's just revealed that Steve Jobs will be presenting the keynote at next week's WWDC event, and it will include the next Mac operating system, OS X Lion, the next iOS operating system, iOS 5, and the word everyone's been waiting for: iCloud.READ»

Is Apple Pushing Back the iPhone 5 Release?

Cue the tortured wails of patient iPhone addicts: Will we see no iPhone 5 until September?READ»

Apple's Mac App Store Opens January 6th

Apple's next big step in App Store business, the Mac App Store, will open its doors to consumers on January 6th in nations around the world. READ»

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Mac Rumor Roundup: Lion on the Prowl?

In advance of Apple's super-secret announcement in Cupertino tomorrow, we serve up the gossip and rate its likelihood.READ»

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Apple Teases OS X Lion in "Back to the Mac" Event, But What'll It Be Like?

Hiding in the logo for Apple's new press invite to an October 20th "Back to the Mac" event is a picture of a lion. Woah! That's one enormous hint it's all about the next-gen OS X. What'll it be like?READ»

Apple Rumors: Touchscreen iMacs, Better Audio on iPhones, and OS X's Clever 3-D Controller

It wouldn't have been a complete week in tech news without some hot-to-trot Apple rumors hitting, and here they are.READ»

Forget iPhone 4, Here's What Steve Jobs Didn't Mention During His WWDC Speech

Today's WWDC speech by Steve Jobs was in some ways, surprising. Despite a veritable armful of rumors, Steve mainly talked about a handful of tech, with emphasis on the new iPhone 4. So what did he leave out, and when may it come true ...READ»

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Nook Outsells Kindle in First Month on Sale, Lessons for eReader, Tablet Rivals

Barnes & Noble's e-reader, the Nook, has busted the Kindle, according to figures released by DigiTimes research today. It accounted for 53% of all e-reader sales in March, although this can be put down in part to consumers' ...READ»

Optical Illusion: Make Your Computer's Download Progress Bar Dilate Time

I just added a software upgrade to my Mac, and for the Nth time was suckered into one of my reluctant pastimes: staring at that progress bar. Yet it turns out that with a trick or two, that icon can make time seem like its ...READ»

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What Happens If Apple Grows Too Fast?

CNBC is predicting that Apple may top Microsoft as computing's most valuable firm. But that kind of success might be self-defeating. As CNBC rightly acknowledges, Apple has a long way to go before it can dethrone Redmond, but ...READ»

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Apple's Tablet Apps Will Live and Die by One Nerdy Thing

For an Apple Tablet to be a hit, it will have to be more than a big-screen iPhone. And the difference between a lithe, touch-based Mac and a giant, lame iPhone comes down to one crucial nerd-factor: memory management. Memory ...READ»

Apple's Snow Leopard Is an Unlikely Green Beast

Apple's Snow Leopard upgrade to OS X has many subtle behind the scenes powers that assure it'll remain cutting edge for a good while, but it also seems to have unexpected green skills: It could save the world 50GigaWatts of ...READ»

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Get the Speed of Apple "Snow Leopard" Without Buying a New Mac

Apple just announced that it's next update to OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, will ship on Friday. That's great news if you own an Intel Mac, but if you own an older machine, you're out of luck--version 10.6 won't support PPC Macs. But ...READ»

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Apple Snow Leopard To Ship August 28

After a period of downtime early Monday morning, Apple has reinstated their online store with one seminal addition: the ability to preorder Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, for shipping on August 28. Unlike most major revisions to the ...READ»

What Would a Facebook Collaboration With Apple Look Like? It Almost Happened...

How would Facebook be different today if its social operating system was built into Apple's OS X? The two companies spent a lot of time collaborating early on. But, as Facebook's senior platform manager and former Apple employee Dave ...READ»

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Is This a Microsoft Renaissance?

New data suggests Microsoft's Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It's great news for the team at Redmond...but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance? Microsoft's ...READ»

The Smartbook Race Is On, and China Is at the Starting Line With an XP-Capable Phone

Yesterday I wrote about the smartbook--a half smartphone, half netbook device that's being pushed as the future of mobile computing. And now it looks like a Chinese firm has beaten everyone, and released a cellphone that runs ...READ»