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I’ve seen some pretty convincing knockoffs in my time. Lithuanian flea-market tables with immaculately duplicated illicit versions of Microsoft and Norton products. Metro kiosks off Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg with jewel-cased, color-labeled computer games still technically in beta. I’ve flipped through stacks of fake DVDs, cheap dupes of sneakers and tubes of toothpaste. But [...]
Apple may be the most consistently inventive company in tech, but in its own way, it’s a remarkably single-minded outfit. For all of their profound differences, a Macintosh computer from 1984 and a new iPad 2 are soul mates. Each is the coolest, most elegant expression of Steve Jobs’ vision of the ideal computing device [...]
In a blog post this week, Google announced that they’d purchased the rights to g.co, the company’s official URL shortcut. The internet giant already owns its own public link shortener, goo.gl, which works just like bit.ly, but g.co will redirect to official Google products.
The FBI arrested 14 people earlier today suspected of being involved with the hacker group Anonymous. They are being charged on “various counts of conspiracy and intentional damage to a protected computer,” and participating in an attack against PayPal late last year.
Apple’s financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter saw a record $28.57 billion in revenue and $7.31 billion in net profit. The company generated $15.7 billion in revenue and $3.25 billion in net profit during the same quarter last year.
Aaron Swartz, a 24-year old programmer who helped popularize nerd-news depository Reddit.com, was indicted on data theft charges (PDF) for illegally downloading over 4 million documents from JSTOR, a research database typically used in academia.
By nearly every measure, the Toshiba Thrive is an unremarkable Android Honeycomb tablet. It’s fat, it’s heavy, and it’s got pretty much the same hardware as its peers.
It’s the end of an era: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and Technicolor, two iconic names in the movie industry for almost a century, have signed subcontracting deals that, more than likely, herald the end of actual film being used for motion pictures.
The official Google+ iPhone app is finally available for download in the iTunes App Store. You can access it here.
As if LulzSec’s hack of The Sun‘s website wasn’t embarrassment enough, the notorious hacktivist group behind claimed U.S. Congress and CIA takedowns says it plans to drop a bundle of hacked News International emails at some point soon, possibly even later today.
If you’re thinking about advertising on Facebook, you should probably get that sorted out soon. According to the Financial Times, the price of advertising on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has risen 74% over the past year, with costs continuing to escalate as big brands take their ads online.
