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The three patents Microsoft is hammering the Nook with—and why they may be invalid

Microsoft's complaint against Barnes & Noble's Android-based Nook devices has been narrowed down to just three patents, with the US International Trade Commission having to decide whether Nook devices infringe on severa...

Path Uploads And Stores Your iPhone’s Entire Address Book On Its Servers

Screen shot 2012-02-07 at 4.28.03 PMIn what can only be considered the very definition of irony, it has been discovered that Path 2 for iPhone secretly uploads and stores your entire address book to its servers. In case you didn’t know, Path is a hot...

Change Or Reset Your Apple ID Password On Your iOS Device [iOS Tip]

Apple-store-sign-inForgetting a password to any service is frustrating, especially if you’re itching to download the latest Angry Birds update. But when it comes to your Apple ID, it’s actually very simple to change or reset your password on your iOS device. Here’s how to...

Apple Mini-Stores May Be Coming To Your Local Sam’s Club

applestoreA report claims that in an effort to expand their US retail prescense, Apple is in talks with Walmart subsidiary Sam’s Club to open new Apple stores inside the company’s warehouse retail locations. Both Walmart and Sam’s Club currently sell a number of Apple products,...

Google (finally) brings Chrome to Android

Google is finally bringing Chrome to the Android platform. A beta release of the increasingly popular Web browser was published this morning in the Android Market and is available to users who are running Android...

Minecraft developer makes "serious" offer to fund Psychonauts sequel

In the annals of video gaming, 2005's mind-bending platformer Psychonauts is right up there with Earthbound and Beyond Good and Evil in the ranks of games that have a devoted cadre of fans eagerly demanding...

Is Steve Jobs’ Biography An Inspiration to Entrepreneurs, Or A Warning?

Blogger Jason Kottke has noticed an interesting pattern: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who take Steve Jobs’ biography not as a guide to success, but as a warning. Kottke points to four entrepreneurs who are scaling back on work to focus on their families, lest they...

How The iPhone Saves Money For Businesses (And Why Android Can’t)

everyone-iphoneA big challenge for businesses and organizations is cost management, particularly in the current economic climate. Many companies are trying maximise their budgets and that’s one of the big factors pushing the BYOD trend. Where BYOD isn’t feasible, however, businesses may still have the...

Symantec offered hackers $50k to delete stolen code in alleged "sting"

Hackers claiming to have the source code for Symantec's PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus software attempted to extort $50,000 from the company, according to e-mail transcripts posted on February 7. But the point of contact ......

Adobe’s New Creative Cloud Will Include CS6 & Lightroom 4 For $50 Per Month

creative-cloud-marquee-709x400Adobe is set to launch a new service during the next few months called the Creative Cloud, which will allow users unlimited access to its pricey Creative Suite 6 package for just $49.99 a month. What’s more, Lightroom 4 will also be bundled in...

Apple Intern Worked On ‘Secret’ Project Porting Mac OS X To ARM

Mac OS X on iPadWhile Apple has previously dismissed the idea of porting its entire Mac OS X operating system to ARM-powered mobile devices, the Cupertino company has at least been working on it. That’s according to one intern who worked with Apple’s Platform...

Is This USB Vibrator The New iPod? [Interview]

The DUET, photo courtesy CRAVE.DUET is one of those products designed to elicit “aha” moments: it’s a vibrator that looks like a USB key. Small, slim and discreet, it has no cords, no bulky buttons and requires no batteries. Despite Steve Jobs’ well-known war...