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iPhone 5 may have NFC, may look like the 4

Mar 18, 2011
The next version of the iPhone is coming in June (yep, you're going to have to deal with a few more months of Apple rumors) and new rumors say that...

Firefox 4 to launch next week

Mar 18, 2011
Suddenly the browser wars are just flat blowing up. Google released its latest version of Chrome last week. This week saw the release of Internet...

Zune player dies, Zune lives on

Mar 15, 2011
Microsoft will no longer make Zune music players citing weak demand and a desire to focus on the smartphone market. This should come as no shock to...

AT&T to cap DSL data usage

Mar 14, 2011
AT&T has announced it will start charging extra to DSL customers who use a lot of data. Beginning May 2nd, customers who exceed 150gb in a mon...

Verizon cracks down on text message fraud

Mar 10, 2011
Verizon is suing individuals and small companies who have been running a scam on cell phone users. Works like this: user gets an offer to be sent...

Kinect outsells iPad, everything else

Mar 10, 2011
As we mock Microsoft for being late on music players, late on smartphones, ridiculously late on tablets, let us observe that they are kicking all...

Apple sets up emergency iPad 2 hipster deployment station

Mar 10, 2011
Imagine the horror: you're at SXSW and you're walking around with the OLD iPad? Scandal! It's enough to make you temporarily abandon your endless...

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Tomorrow is iPad 2 day

Mar 10, 2011
The tablet arrives in stores tomorrow and it's getting some great reviews with a few caveats. Josh Topolsky at Engadget praises the physical object...

Zite! Yep, another nonsense dot com word to learn.

Mar 9, 2011
Zite is a personalized magazine app for iPad that pulls from your Twitter feed and/or your Google Reader to create a magazine based on stuff you...

Is this what the iPhone 5 looks like?

Mar 7, 2011
With iPad 2 now announced, it's time to look ahead to the iPhone 5 (because that's what happens). Rumors currently circulating indicate that the...