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When Apple’s OS X Lion debuts in July, it’ll only be available through Apple’s Mac App Store. No retail copies, no white-edged Apple-gray install DVDs—just an install file you’ll purchase and pull down by conjuring the App Store from your Mac’s dock and perusing “New and Noteworthy” for a picture of Apple’s new tawny-maned kitty. [...]
It’s sad, but it’s true: Spam is as spam does. It gets everywhere. It’s now found its way into Amazon’s Kindle e-book store.
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook just isn’t getting the love from wireless carriers.
Score one for the MPAA.
It’s the kind of news you can use next time concerned parents bring up the idea that the internet is making people more withdrawn and closed off from the rest of humanity: A new study from the Pew Research Center has found that online social networks actually seem to make people more social.
Google’s big bet on web-only laptops has now been fully realized with the consumer availability of Chromebooks. There are two models—one from Acer and one from Samsung—each available either with a 3G cellular connection built-in or as lower-priced Wi-Fi-only versions.
NASA’s Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft dropped into orbit around the tiny, orbitally eccentric planet just a few months ago, and it’s already sent back enough data to notably alter our take on the first rock from the sun.
I briefly mentioned Duck Duck Go in my new Technologizer column for TIME.com—which is mostly about Google’s bevy of new search features—but it deserves more attention. Its mascot may be a genial waterfowl, but the site is the biggest underdog in search: It’s operated by one guy, a Philadelphian named Gabriel Weinberg.
When I was prepping to take the GREs in 2009, I had to memorize a bunch of longwinded vocabulary words that I knew I’d never use: "sanguine," "enervate," and my personal favorite to mouth quietly, "magnanimous." (Fair warning: I wouldn’t be able to tell you what any of those mean without a right-click.)
Apple’s 2011 back-to-school deal ditches the free iPod Touch of years past and offers a $100 gift card instead, a move that some pundits are calling stingy.
Apparently, cord-cutting may be real after all, according to a new study released by The Diffusion Group.
