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Adobe Says CS4 Will Be More Mac-Friendly

Adobe [ADBE] products have been famously synonymous with creative Macintosh-types for years, but early reports from Wired magazine on the beta version of the company's Creative Suite 4 are even more Mac-friendly than ever. The ...READ»

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iPad Fact and Fiction: An Interactive Guide to Eight Years of Rumors and Reporting

On Tuesday, B.C. (Before Cupertino), we ran down all of the milestones in almost a decade's worth of Apple Tablet development. (An A.D.--After Debut--update of that timeline is here.) Above, a handy interactive graphic ...READ»

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Masters of Disaster

We asked eight turnaround experts, from professors to investors to managers, who have brought companies back from the brink, to give us their recipe for rescue. Here's the 411 on the 911.READ»

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Fast Talk: Threat Reduction

Symantec's Zulfikar Ramzan on figuring out online crime before the criminals do.READ»

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iFive: BlackBerry's Indian Reprieve, iTunes Rumors, Climate Change Critic's Volte Face, Wikileaks Leaks, Eco-friendly Booze

While you were sleeping, innovation was dancing the merengue.1. BlackBerry addicts have been given a 60-day reprieve by the Indian government. Today was to be the deadline for Research In Motion to hand over access to its users' data ...READ»

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Small + Disruptive = Powerful

I live a stone's throw from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Apple is hiring. But it's not the Apples, Oracles, Intels or Ciscos that make the economy hum here. "Historically, it is start-ups, not ...READ»

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Corporate iPhone to Get Slide-Out Keyboard?

Apple [NASDAQ:APPL] might be leading edge, but they're not stubborn. That's the implication of an article appearing in The Register today which has the temerity to suggest that Cupertino might be developing an iPhone with a ...READ»

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iTunes Store Gets Radiohead (Finally)

Their do-it-yourself mantra might have set the stage for other prominent artists (like Madonna) to leave their record labels and strike out on their own mission to create, sell, and distribute music with private funding, and without a middleman.READ»

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iPad SchmiPad I'm Slate'd

Yea, so it’s here. It’s cool and all, but it doesn’t cure cancer or bring world peace. It won’t solve the problems with the Red Sox blowing leads late in games nor will it help the Cubs win a World Series. Now I’m not an ...READ»

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In Your Ear!

Three hearing aids for mobile workers.READ»

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Catching Up With Hartmut Esslinger, Design Genius

The founder of Frog Design--whose works helped transform both Sony and Apple into high-design brands--talks with Gizmodo about his work, and his new book.READ»

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iTunes Store Gets Radiohead (Finally)

In a small but significant announcement out of Cupertino today, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that the band Radiohead will finally be available via the iTunes music store, complete with a la carte pricing. Radiohead made ...READ»

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Collaborative Socialutions . . . Where Does Collaboration Fit In?

  The social web seems to attract a lot of definitional redefining, whether by adding numbers after a term like Collaboration 2.0, Business 3.0, or Office 4.0, or by combining two previously independent words into ...READ»

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

Daily news of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Apple, Google, GE, and IBMREAD»

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ARM Financial Results Show Its Muscle, Nixes Apple Takeover Rumors

ARM holdings, the nifty British chipmaker rumored to be the object of Apple's affections, has released a sparkling set of financial figures--and poured water on the rumors surrounding it and the Cupertino Gang. Profits have almost ...READ»

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Apple Tablet Rumor, for the Umpteenth Time--but Now With Details

You're going to keep hearing Apple Tablet rumors until the nice folks at Cupertino actually roll one off the production line, or point-blank rule out such a gizmo...but the latest batch have some very specific specs associated with ...READ»

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Six Overlooked iPhone Apps

Apple likes to tout that there are 50,000 apps in the App Store, but that means that plenty of good apps fall through the cracks. Here are six that didn't make it into Cupertino's TV ad campaign, but should have.AirCam | ...READ»

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Jobs Squad: Turtle-Necked Mac Geniuses to Make Tech Support House Calls?

Apple seems to be creating its version of The Geek Squad. The Boom! disposal experts. Does this mean that we will soon be seeing squadrons of silver-colored vans, driven by bespectacled men in black polonecks zipping around the ...READ»

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Pressure-Drawing Software From Ten One May Go in Apple's Pending Tray

Ten One is a New Jersey-based firm that deals with accessories for smartphones and tablets, with the odd bit of software thrown in for good measure. One of their products is the Pogo stylus, which can't have Steve Jobs that ...READ»

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Mac vs. PC Ads Finished? Justin Long "Can't Say Definitively" (But It's About Time)

Justin Long, the floppy-fringed star of the Mac v. PC ads, revealed that he heard it from a good source (er, a PC, actually) that the sweet-natured, yet passive-combative ad campaign run by Apple is coming to an end. In an interview ...READ»

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Welcoming Guest Blogger Tim Brown: Can We Design a Post-Crisis Economy?

About a year ago, I happened to be at breakfast panel at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, where Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, was speaking. At the time, the topic, "What is Wrong with American Design?" was much in the ...READ»

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" The Cincinnati Kid" (1965)

"For the true gambler, money is never an end in itself. It's simply a tool, as a language is to thought."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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The Simple, Secret iPhone Tethering Fix

As Apple's music event draws closer, there's plenty of speculation that a new version of iTunes might be nigh--and with it, a pwn-resistant version of iPhone OS 3.1. So with a healthy fear of Apple's anti-hacker scheming, it bears ...READ»

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Apple MacBook Release Official for October 14th

Not much to add to the already-reported rumors of new Apple [AAPL] MacBooks on their way in 5 days, but Apple has finally acknowledged the event by sending out an invitation to special media folks. The event will start at 10AM PST ...READ»