Rumor: Walmart to sell 4GB iPhone 3G for $99 with contract
Walmart is expected to begin selling iPhones later this month, but a new rumor indicates they will offer a $99 iPhone 3G with just 4GB of storage.Read More...
published today, 2 hours 23 minutes ago, ars-technica
Rumor: Wal-Mart to sell 4GB iPhone for $99
A new rumor presents the possibility that discount chain Wal-Mart may carry a special run 4GB iPhone 3G as part of its agreement to begin selling the touchscreen handsets later this month.
published today, 4 hours 34 minutes ago, appleinsider
Apple Hints At Future Liquid-Cooled Laptops
Lumenary7204 writes "According to the Register, Apple recently received US Patent Application No. 20080291629 for a 'liquid-cooled portable computer.' The filing describes a system where a 'pump ... coupled to the heat pipe is configured to circulate the liquid coolant through the heat pipe.' All claims of obviousness aside (after all, PC enthusiasts have been using liquid and phase-change cooling for years), the existence of the patent application seems to indicate that laptop manufacturers are in agreement with physicists and engineers who say we are running up against the practical limits of air-cooling such compact pieces of equipment."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published today, 9 hours 9 minutes ago, apple-slashdot
Comcast to intro bandwidth use tracker in January
Comcast will soon provide its subscribers with a tool to monitor how close they are to the 250GB cap imposed by the Internet service provider at the end of August. The online bandwidth meter will be available on January 5th, according to an anonymous tip, and will have a three-hour delay as opposed to real-time monitoring. The meter will retain up to three months of usage records and will allow us...
published yesterday, 21 hours 4 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Logitech ships its one billionth mouse
Logitech on Wednesday announced that is has shipped its one billionth mouse for personal computers, with the news coming, appropriately, one week ahead of the fortieth anniversary of the very first public demonstration of a computer mouse by Doug Engelbart. Logitech manufactured its first mouse prototype, the P4, back in 1982, and sold the first mouse in 1985. Back then, a mouse was mainly an inte...
published yesterday, 21 hours 14 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Update to Apple's 18-Month-Old AV Doc Sparks Uproar
Apple's Mac OS X operating system has long been lauded as virus resistant, if not downright virus and malware free. Over the years that has perhaps changed -- at least a little. If any Mac-focused bugs have popped up, though, none have turned into marauding swarms of locusts. However, recent reports about an official support document found on Apple's Web site have reignited the Mac security issue.
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macnewsworld
Apple's Snow Leopard still evolving, developers say
Although there's been some evidence to suggest Snow Leopard could hit the market several months ahead of expectations, new information reveals that Apple remains heavily engaged in building out some of the features first previewed back in June.
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, appleinsider
Safari and Mac market share up in November '08
The latest tracking data from Net Applications shows Safari and Mac OS X users slowly gaining ground in market share, despite a small dip last month.Read More...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, ars-technica
Google officially rolls out CalDAV support for Calendar
After several months of limited support and testing, Google has officially added support for CalDAV syncing to Google Calendar, which enables users to sync iCal and Mozilla Sunbird calendars with the online service.Read More...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, ars-technica
Apple finally taking orders for new in-ear headphones
Apple this week began accepting orders for a pair of new headphone options designed for iPods, nearly three months after the accessories were first announced at a September media event.
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, appleinsider