Archive for April, 2009

Angry MacBook Air Owner Takes Kitchen Knife to Laptop

Some of us take out second mortgages to make ends meet. Some of us toil away at menial jobs to weather the economic crisis…

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Google Apps Gains LDAP Support

The new feature is likely to appeal to enterprise IT staffers

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The Macalope Weekly: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made of

The Macalope’s old enough to remember when rumors of an Apple tablet device were made of nothing more than fairy dust and…

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How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names

From iPod and BlackBerry to Twitter and Wikipedia, we take a look at the processes and people who came up with the names for these famous tech products.

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Apple Snapping up Chip Designers

It has hired two former CTOs of graphics products from AMD, and has almost 20 lower-level chip design jobs open

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Appetite for Netbooks Surging, Survey Says

Price-conscious buyers drawn to cheaper price, wider selection of netbooks.

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Spoil Your Kid With A Child-Resistant Laptop

The $600 PeeWee Pivot Tablet Laptop is a splash-resistant computer that packs some pretty decent specs.

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Netbook Pioneer to Stick With Windows in 2009

Asustek sees the first quarter of 2010 as a better opportunity for non-Windows OSs, such as Android, in netbooks

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HP Launches MediaSmart Server LX195

Slick-looking Windows Home server supports photo sharing through Web services like Flickr and Picasa.

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Research Could Instantly Wake Shut-down Laptops

Researchers aim to put new material on silicon that allows transistors to retain data even when power is turned off

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