Alas, it’s looking like Thursday as D-Day for Mac OS X Lion’s official digital-only rollout was a bad call by the Apple news gossip club. As of today, July 14th, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Apple’s homepage is still pimping the company’s iCloud service, announced last month but not publicly available until sometime this fall. OS X Lion is, …
The other day I received a package, or I should say what in hindsight seems a waste of one: a large box, inside which lay a jumbo-sized cardboard egg, from within which I plucked a tiny rectangular piece of colored paper slightly larger than a business card. On the card, a picture of an iPhone, a greenish tongue of flame, and the words …
First off, full disclosure: I’m a streaming-only Netflix customer, and I’ve never been a mail-order video disc guy. I’m too impatient. If I want it, I’ll just Redbox it. Or Blockbuster it. Or if it’s available through an official replay-mode online, simply watch it there, piping the video feed from my laptop to the HDMI port of my …
Oops, we screwed up—that’s the gist of 9to5Mac‘s story correction this morning. The Apple rumor-gathering tech blog admits it bungled both its super-secret part number pre-read as well as the timing of Apple’s Mac Pro refresh. Sorry Mac Pro fans, looks like you’ll have to wait until later this month, or early next.
Instead? Looks …
Imagine hurtling downward at nerve-fraying speeds while shooting slightly backwards before curving into a perfect vertical drop and out again, sort of like surfing the inside bottom-half of the letter ‘s’.
That’s how the world’s steepest rollercoaster brings it, and if you were silly enough to scarf down a plate of nachos and maybe a …
Everyone’s expecting Apple’s digitally downloadable OS X Lion to magically appear on Thursday this week, and we’ve heard plenty about new MacBook Airs to coincide with Lion’s launch, but what’s this about new Mac Pros?
No, not MacBook Pros—those were just refreshed in February 2011—but yes, Mac Pros, Apple’s monster metal …
Hear that jangling, flushing sound? That’s your bank account, linked to your Apple App Store wallet, draining incrementally faster—or at least the hypothetical sound it’ll make as those once-but-not-future 99-cent apps metamorphose into pricier versions on average.
That’s what Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster found, anyway, …
Google’s social networking Facebook rival test-launched not quite two weeks ago, and it’s already suffering growing pains. In fact Google+’s storage well apparently ran dry this weekend, prompting the service to spam users with a sudden fusillade of error messages.
On Saturday, Google+ senior vice president of “social” Vic Gundotra …
In an attempt to further tighten the national belt, the U.S. House moved this week to cut the James Webb Space Telescope from the budget, effectively threatening NASA’s follow-up to the Hubble, and the future of our eyes-in-space program. There’s something poetic (poetically dismaying, that is) about the timing, too: Space shuttle …
So you’ve maybe heard about Amazon offering unlimited server-based music storage (call it “cloud” if you must—I prefer the apparently retro/old-school term “online”). Like me, maybe you have a massive music collection that you’ve shopped around the online scene without success because of service storage limits (take a bow mostly Google …
AT&T could be in serious trouble if a new study by data analytics firm Localytics proves accurate. According to the study, Verizon has already snatched nearly a third of the U.S. iPhone 4 market, despite AT&T’s roughly eight-month lead and the Verizon iPhone’s lack of unique hardware features. If you buy the argument that many would-be …
A serious security flaw that allows hackers to remotely commandeer iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches should eventually have a fix, says Apple. The company acknowledged it was working to close the security hole Thursday, but would only say to expect the fix in a forthcoming software update.
The flaw, which came to light on Wednesday this …
