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iPhone Helps Take Scrooge Out of Holiday Shopping Season

Thanks to the number-crunchers and graphics staff at Mobclix we see a nice representation of iPhone’s participation in the Great Holiday Recovery of 2010. Consumers’ credit-card spending returned to “pre-recession levels” this year on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), traditionally considered the start of...

How Does Your Mac Stack Up? Geekbench it to Find Out

If you’ve ever wondered how well your Mac performs — against its peers, against similar models, against the latest releases from Cupertino — Primate Labs’ Geekbench might be worth a look. Geekbench is free software that, as the company states, “provides a comprehensive set of...

Cult Favorite: MediaPad Pro for iPad Reinvents Portfolio Presentation

What it is: MediaPad Pro is fantastically well designed software for the iPad that allows creative people of all types to easily place multiple portfolios of work — including audio, video, still images and websites — onto Apple’s tablet device and present them in professional,...

Fuze Box Takes HD Group Videoconferencing Mobile

Fuze Box, the company behind the groundbreaking meeting and collaboration tool Fuze Meeting, raised the bar for easy multiparty videoconferencing Thursday with the announcement of its private beta for Fuze Presence — bringing multiparty high definition (HD) video to Mac iOS and Android mobile devices....

Apple Makes Enterprise Headway as iPads Come to Wall Street

Wall Street investment banking icon JPMorgan Chase & Co. is giving iPads to every associate in its global investment banking division, according to a company e-mail obtained by Bloomberg News. Employees receiving the devices will get to keep them free of charge as long as...

Woz Says He Was Misquoted on Android Prediction

Clarifying remarks attributed to him by a column in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on Wednesday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said today that, based on things he’s read, he does believe Android will eventually come to dominate the smartphone market — but not because it’s...

Valuation Theory: Would iPhone Alone Be Nearly a Top 10 Global Business?

Business valuations are almost always a tricky figure to pin down, but analysts at Trefis figure they have a pretty reliable one for the iPhone, in case Apple and Steve Jobs might be thinking of spinning it off as a separate company. By Trefis’s numbers,...

Handy Comic Guide to iPhone, Android, Blackberry Users

C-Section Comics pretty much hit the nail on the head with this take on the big three brands of smartphone users, how they see themselves and how they see each other. Click the image for a full-size view. Be sure to check out the artist’s...

25 iPads Bring Oohs and Ahhs to Japanese Design Show

Apple iPads wowed the crowds at Tokyo Designers Week this year in a 5 X 5 configuration where 25 iPads gave onlookers an opportunity to watch video and music synced wirelessly on all the devices. Audience members were also invited to manipulate the sound and...

A Dozen Great Decals for Your Mac Notebook [Gallery]

Now that Consumer Reports has deemed pretty much the entire line of Apple notebooks the “Best in Class” in every configuration, it stands to reason you may be seeing more and more of them wherever you go. And not that you’d let your own far...

OS X 10.6.5 Has Arrived

1065_update.pngHere’s the link to the Apple Support document describing the update and how to get it. 10.6.5 promises increased performance in playing well with Microsoft Exchange, better image processing with iPhoto and Aperture, adds SSL support for transferring files with iDisk, resolves an issue syncing...

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon App Debuts on iTunes App Store

fallonapp_screens.jpgNBC’s Jimmy Fallon is the first American late night TV host out of the gate with a dedicated app for Apple’s mobile device users, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (iTunes link), available free as of Wednesday in the App Store. Fallon, arguably the most tech-savvy...