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Valve’s official announcement on Mac gaming released

Valve’s official announcement on Mac gaming released

After the initial screengrabs of Mac user interface elements and the subsequent blatant teasers, we've known this was coming for quite awhile.  Now a Mac version of Valve's Steam gaming platform is official with today's press release, below: Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April March...
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AP gets close-up pictures of Steve Jobs in tux on the Red Carpet

AP gets close-up pictures of Steve Jobs in tux on the Red Carpet

From the AP, some better pictures of Steve Jobs at the Oscars (more below).viaFlickr user Karmagrrl got this one Steve Jobs, of course, is no stranger to the bowtie:
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Steve Jobs and iPad make their Oscars debut

Steve Jobs and iPad make their Oscars debut

The iPad commercial aired at 8:53pm EST during the Oscars.  Also, Steve Jobs is in attendance and was spotted on the Red Carpet(below). via via
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More MacBook Core i5, i7 sightings. This time in New Zealand

More MacBook Core i5, i7 sightings.  This time in New Zealand

This is getting a little silly isn't it? Apple reseller, Tosh Computers updated their MacBook Pro line yesterday with some pretty mouthwatering new computers. Released in April(?!) 2010, these are somewhat believable specs for new Core i5 and i7 MacBook Pros which top out at 640GB HDDs or 256GB SSDs.  We especially like getting the Express...
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Best Buy slaps a Core i7 logo on a MacBook Pro

Best Buy slaps a Core i7 logo on a MacBook Pro

This is probably just another case of mistaken identity, but Best Buy currently has the current model MacBook Pro published adorning a Core i7 logo.  The rest of the specs are still in line with the current MacBook Pros including Core 2 Duo processors.  Also, other MacBook Pros, even more expensive ones, still have...
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Apple patents enforcing commercials during video play

Apple patents enforcing commercials during video play

In the real (not torrenting) world, you have to pay to get video content.  Whether that is by watching ads on Hulu or paying iTunes $1.99 per episode for TV, the content makers need to get paid.  Any other system isn't going to work in the long run. Apple, we know, is a friend to...
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Apple announces US iPad availability on April 3rd, Pre-Orders on March 12th. Late April for 3G and international

Apple announces US iPad availability on April 3rd, Pre-Orders on March 12th. Late April for 3G and international

Apple today announced that the iPad would be available from April 3rd (not the March 26th that'd been speculated) and late April for the 3G models in the US.  Global availability (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK) won't be until Late April as well. Pre-orders wil be available from March...
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AT&T talks exotic “variable pricing model”

AT&T talks exotic “variable pricing model”

AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson talked at a investor conference today according to the Wall St. Journal. He said that AT&T is carrying half of the nation's wireless data traffic. He said that carriers will eventually move to a "variable pricing model," and that it was inevitable that heavy users should pay more than low...
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HDMI coming to Mac Minis?

HDMI coming to Mac Minis?

Perhaps this is a bit obvious, but today Appleinsider goes forth and says that future Macs, specifically the Mac Mini (which they declared as dead two years ago) will this year have HDMI ports.   They further mention that these unreleased Minis have Nvidia's next generation MCP89 chipsets (vs. current MCP79-GeForce 9400M) which aren't licensed...
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Guy with Apple Store step gets threatened by contractor, triples his money

Guy with Apple Store step gets threatened by contractor, triples his money

Updated 10am ET to reflect that Contractor is going after the sellerGizmodo today runs a post by the guy who tried to sell one of Apple's 5th Avenue Store Stairs on eBay. The eBay posting was taken down one day into bidding without a word about the circumstances.  Until now. A year and a half ago,...
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