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Meet mIQ: BestBuy's Free Clone of Apple's Mobile Me

Apple's MobileMe is variously reviled and applauded in different corners of the Net, but it's hard to argue that it provides a pretty comprehensive service. So comprehensive that Best Buy has just cloned it--and made it available for ...READ»

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iPhone 3G Shipping July 11th; MobileMe Service Debuts

The so-called genius phone just got an IQ upgrade. Few of the technorati were surprised on Monday when Apple [NASDAQ: AAPL] unveiled the second iteration of the iPhone, which sports a precious few, but significant, ...READ»

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Palm Pre Vs iPhone 3G S: Feature by Feature Comparison

We tagged the Palm Pre as a hot-ticket item before its launch, and so it was, even with many a rumor about the new iPhone. But now that iPhone 3G S has rocketed off Apple's design launchpad, does Palm's effort stand a chance of ...READ»

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Apple exchanges .Mac for MobileMe

Another product lost in the shadows of the 3G iPhone announcement on June 9 was MobileMe, a revamp of .Mac service. One of Apple’s most genius and useful facets is that it makes the process of syncing different products (iMacs, ...READ»

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A Hater's Guide to the New iPhone

Maybe you just bought a Palm Pre, or you're a BlackBerry diehard. Now you see the new iPhone 3G S, and you're listening, incredulous, as all your iPhone 3G-owning friends are counting down the days until they can pay $200 or $300 ...READ»

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Apple 3GS iPhones a Hot Item

Apple 3GS iPhones are selling at a record pace primarily because of their versatile features. But besides death and taxes, one thing is certain, if something bad happens, they will break. When that happens, an independent repair ...READ»

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Design Roundtable: What Will Cell Phones Look Like 10 Years From Now?

We're back with the final installation of this week's cell phone roundtable. We choose the topic, put forth a few questions to our panel, and bring the most provocative answers back to you. This week, with more details about the ...READ»

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Icon Wasteland: the Madness of Multiple Desktops

Everywhere we look, we are surrounded by desktops. Once it was merely our laptops and PCs, and then it was our companion netbooks, too. Then our Web 2.0 accounts: Facebook, MobileMe, Google apps. After that, our phones got smart ...READ»

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HTC Reveals HTCSense.com, A Cloudy Rival to Apple's MobileMe Ecosystem

Forget Motorola, HTC's cementing its position as the hot Android smartphone maker to watch: It's just revealed new phones and HTCSense.com, which is a cloud-based rival to Apple's iOS-MobileMe ecosystem.READ»

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SkyBox: Microsoft's Answer to MobileMe?

Windows Mobile is the oft-forgotten prince of Smartphoneland, with millions of smartphone handsets carrying at least one version of the OS, sometimes behind the scenes. But to counter the rising threat from the iPhone and Android, it ...READ»

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iPhone Price Matched by Sprint's Samsung Instinct

When rumors of the Samsung Instinct began to surface, it was pretty widely accepted that the device would run consumers $299, when purchased from Sprint and tied to that provider's "Everything" service plan. Now that the iPhone 3G ...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»

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Steve Job Announces Apple iPhone 3G and New Applications

At Apple's annual World Wide Developer's Conference, Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 3G. It features 3G data speed, GPS support, a better battery, and some design improvements. I would point to the fact the 8 gb model will only ...READ»

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iPhone Price Matched by Sprint's Samsung Instinct

When rumors of the Samsung [SEO: 005930] Instinct began to surface, it was pretty widely accepted that the device would run consumers $299, when purchased from Sprint [NYSE: S] and tied to that provider's "Everything" ...READ»

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Is Apple Shooting for the Cloud?

More information is trickling out about Apple's new data center in North Carolina--it seems it's going to be big. Amongst the biggest in the World, in fact. Are the folks at Cupertino shooting Apple into the cloud computing ...READ»

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Ten Mac Apps That Make Windows Users Drool

// Used to be that Windows users could admit the Mac was easy to use--they just complained there wasn't any software for the platform. Apple knew their weakness, too, so they endeavored to turn their developer tools into the envy ...READ»

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MacWorld 2009 Rumor Round-Up

With the doors of the Moscone center in San Francisco soon to burst open upon a Jobs-less Macworld 2009, the Internets are predictably alive with rumors--some more believable, some less believable, some just stuffed with desperate ...READ»

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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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Opera 10 Is Going to Piss Off Some Very Important People

On the spectrum of menacing devices, the lowly server falls somewhere between a toaster and... an evil toaster. Which is to say that most people don't think the "clouds" that store so much of their email and files as being ...READ»

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Microsoft's Cloud-Based Skybox Gets Early Showing, New Name

We talked about Microsoft's SkyBox cloud-based data service recently, and now it looks like the wraps have begun to come off SkyBox, and an initial website has gone live. But, strangely, it isn't quite what it seemed like it would ...READ»

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Seven Tiny Tech Stories That Will Be Huge

Progress isn't all breakout products and scientific coups. In fact, some of the most salient indicators of the direction of technology come in re-directions of products and services we use every day. Here are seven subtle changes to ...READ»

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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Digital Music From Mobile Pandora, Sony's iTunes Rival

Digital music turned the recording industry upside down several times already, and given the amazing rate of change it's going to keep evolving dramatically. A couple of news items today point to how this evolution will mean we ...READ»

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Apple Names New Security Chief as Flash Named Chief Nuisance for Internet Security

Former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has come on board as Senior Security Product Manager at Apple. Snyder, who left Mozilla in December 2008 after firming up the Firefox browser, started at Cupertino yesterday, although it is ...READ»

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Personal Accountability and Corporate Accountability Create Business Success

What do Apple, Inc., Nordstrom and Whole Foods all have in common?  All three companies are accountable for their actions, choices and results.  Accountability for these three organizations is a cornerstone of their operations.  ...READ»

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The iPhone's Cool, but Android 2.0's Convenience May Blow It Away

Everyone loves the iPhone--today. It does two things extremely well: calling and email. To date, no other device can top it. But by this time next year, that may not be enough. And Android will be waiting in the wings. Google and ...READ»