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11.6-Inch MacBook Air Rumors: Apple's Remaking the 12-Inch PowerBook Everyone Wants

Ever since Apple discontinued its 12-inch PowerBook notebook PC in favor of larger widescreen units, many a computer fan has pleaded for its return. Now rumors are again popping up about a smaller MacBook Air revision ... it may be the machine everyone wants.READ»

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Apple iPad Launch by the Numbers

There's a lot of information flying around about Apple's just-unveiled iPad tablet, so we broke it down into its most basic form: numbers. Here, a quick scan of relevant info to make you the resident iPad guru. 30: Number of ...READ»

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Adman Guy Day Dies, Revolutionized Super Bowl Advertising

The co-founder of Los Angeles-based Chiat\Day died on Saturday, on the eve of the Super Bowl ad-xtravaganza he helped to invent.READ»

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Undead Tech: the Ultra-Thin Notebook

Since time immemorial, gadget buyers have been discarding their most prized gizmos for newer, thinner, sleeker gizmos, often at the expense of practicality, durability, and stupendous amounts of money. But in the last few years, ...READ»

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Lenovo's S12 Netbook Gets Big-Screen, Big Graphics Power from Nvidia

Lenovo's pulled the wraps off its S12, which is far more than a ho-hum addition to its long list of netbook PCs. It's got a 12-inch screen, and is the first netbook to use Nvidia's powerful Ion platform. The S12 is further ...READ»

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Asus Dual-Screen Laptop is Half iPhone, Half Modded Mac From Yesteryear

Asus has just shown off a concept PC that's an inevitable development of multi-touch touchscreen technology: A dual-screen clamshell netbook machine. It's glossy, it's smart, and it makes some sort of sense. But the truth is, it's ...READ»

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Sylvania g Netbook Meso [review]

Sylvania g Netbook Meso [I've spent nearly every day and night with this netbook since right up before Thanksgiving. It's like my new moleskin notebook -- because it's practically that light. Did I say it was only 2.2 lbs? Well, it ...READ»

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Which Tech Company Is Apple Investing In?

Apple [AAPL] recently bought 8 million new shares in a little-known graphics technology company this week. That company, UK-based Imagination Technologies Group [LON:IMG], makes a mobile video technology that could give the iPhone 3G ...READ»

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Yes, Apple Can Survive Without Steve Jobs

The news that Steve Jobs won't be giving the keynote speech at the Macworld Expo in January has revived rumors that the Apple [AAPL] CEO might be too ill to work. At least one research analyst has downgraded Apple's stock, citing the ...READ»

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Sharp Announces Budget HDTVs

The prices of LCD TVs are marching downward as electronics prices are apt to do, and now Sharp [TYO:6753] is helping push things along with three new value-oriented sets. The 1080p LCDs will come in 52, 46 and 42-inch incarnations, ...READ»

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Apple Adds a New Cat to the Pack

If you weren’t listening closely to the first couple of minutes during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech yesterday, you might have missed another significant product announcement: Snow Leopard OS X. Details were sparse from the Silicon ...READ»

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Preaching What You Practice: Speaking in professional tongues to the masses

Outside of one's own industry, the specifics of what you may do on a daily basis are seldom a religious experience for most people in the business world. In fact, a great number of professionals in other industries probably don't have ...READ»

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Can Alex Bogusky Help Microsoft Beat Apple?

Alex Bogusky built the country's slickest ad shop using Apple products. His next challenge: Persuade people like him to buy Microsoft's stuff.READ»

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New Rules of the Road

What's it like up there, where legroom and stale peanuts used to be our biggest concerns? How are travelers navigating the new airport restrictions? Do you really need to check in two hours early? Share your firsthand accounts of airline travel today.READ»

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Simplicity + Technology = Sweet Success

Technology promised to make our lives easier. Instead, too many gadgets today seem to require an engineering degree to operate. Designer Brett Lovelady aims to change that by teaching his clients the mantra "Simplify, simplify."READ»

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The Tao of Steve

The real reason we keep buying Apple products.READ»

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Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

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Gunther Pauli Cleans Up

He built the world's first biodegradable factory. Now, armed with laptops and attitude, Gunter Pauli and his green team plan to outmaneuver Procter Gamble and the detergent giants.READ»

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The Care and Feeding of the Creative Class

Secrets for fielding teams that are passionate, playful, and high performance.READ»

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" Now we live!"

Ride along with a consultant who's sniffing out business opportunities in Iraq.READ»

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A Visionary and His Limits

This month's letter from the editor.READ»

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Our Picks for Summer Kicks

Sunscreen? Check. Shades? Check. Now for the really good stuff: our picks for warm-weather kicks. Have yourself a techie summer.READ»

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Wireless for the Clueless

Everything you need to know to get untethered, at home and on the road.READ»

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Creative Tension

Corning Inc.'s Sullivan Park research facility is one of the most creative places in the world -- a place where brilliant (and unruly) scientists literally invent the future.READ»

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Get Your Work to Go

How is the future of work like ordering take-out Chinese? For work to go, put your files online, leave your laptop behind, and wherever you land, dial in for your order. It's ready when you are. (But you'll have to work again in an hour.)READ»