Apple’s new talking iPod Shuffle can read aloud the names of your songs and your playlists. Although speech synthesis is nothing new, how can Apple bring such advanced features to such a tiny device? The answer is they didn’t - not really. Once again, Apple has innovated through integration of existing technology.
Apple is working on a touch device similar in size to a netbook or tablet. Here is a short guide to its likely components.
The Apple department in select Best Buy stores is bad for Apple and even bad for Best Buy. Staffing, shelving and the overall retail experience is just bad. Plus, Best Buy can not be adding to their balance sheet with Apple computers.
Apple is putting the final touches (no pun intended) on the new and improved iPhone and iPod Touch to be released soon. The new iPhone will likely bring substantial performance and capacity increases. Here is a short guide to its likely components.
Microsoft has sued Tom Tom, the GPS navigation company, for various patent violations, including unlicensed use of Microsoft’s File Allocation Table, also known as FAT. However, Microsoft is unlikely to prevail. So what is the Redmond software developer’s real motivation?
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| Apple LED Cinema Display 24″ |
Apple’s new 24″ LED Cinema Display is a great piece of equipment. It’s silver-clad, svelte, and you can’t deny its good looks. But it has a couple of shortcomings, namely price and a little something called DisplayPort. After looking at a lot of other LCD displays, I was surprised to find that the relatively inexpensive HP w2408h is actually a great alternative to the Apple LED Display. It even looks a a lot like it.
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