So these Windows-based “ultrabooks” we’ve been hearing about recently should be making their way to consumers in time for the holidays. The promise: MacBook Air-like design and portability, but with cheaper price points and, of course, Windows.
(MORE: The Race to Beat the MacBook Air Is On)
And while we’ve seen a teaser image of …
Look out, your next iOS device may do away with that fussy charging cable and cradle. In its place? A pair of earbuds. Yep, I said earbuds. Those things you stick in your ears to listen to music, or maybe use to lasso a pen off your desk if you’re lazy (as well as adept at making lassos out of earphones, which probably means you’d be …
A bit of Apple news for you this morning: MacRumors is reporting that Apple is late-stage testing a new 15-inch, ultra-thin laptop with features similar to the MacBook Air; TUAW is betting that it’s going to be a sveltely redesigned MacBook Pro.
Currently, MacBook Airs are available in 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch sizes with a starting …
Google has had its hands busy tweaking its new darling, Google+, which is rumored to be opening to the public on July 31st. In preparation for the launch, the company has been culling user feedback (like with the sleek new “send feedback” tab in the lower-right hand corner), as well as assembling step-by-step user guides in the form of …
Let’s be honest: no one has much of a clue when Apple’s planning to release OS X 10.7 Lion, Cupertino’s latest mammoth overhaul of the company’s Mac operating system. Sure, we know it’ll be sometime this month, which is what Apple’s been saying for weeks—unless the company changes its mind, which, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, it …
In the world of tablets, 10-inch screens reign supreme, but that hasn’t stopped some companies from dabbling in different shapes and sizes. Samsung, HTC, Dell and Research in Motion have all tried 7-inch tablets. Vizio’s going to market with an 8-inch tablet soon. LG rocked the 8.9-inch screen with the T-Mobile G-Slate. And you may …
Motorola’s next tablet, according to one rumor, will use the same 4:3 aspect ratio as Apple’s iPad, signaling that Motorola has soured on widescreen tablets.
The Motorola Xoom, like most other 10-inch Android Honeycomb tablets currently on the market, uses a 1280-by-800 resolution display. The iPad’s display resolution is 1024-by-768, …
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, …
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 …
Puh-leeze. Google+ was so last week. You better start prepping to get on the invite train for the next big thing–-specifically, for Spotify’s U.S. launch.
(MORE: Big in Europe, Streaming Music Service ‘Spotify’ to Hit the U.S.)
Pull your head out of organizing your Circles or trying to snag an invite, because big European music …
Rumors of an iPad with an unbelievably high-resolution screen have been bobbing around since earlier this year, with some of the initial scuttlebutt being that such a screen would find its way into the iPad 2.
The problem was that a 9.7-inch screen with a 2048×1536 resolution (the current iPad’s screen resolution is 1024×768) would …
Is Hulu for sale? Not exactly.
The L.A. Times reports that Google and Microsoft have both been entertaining the idea of purchasing the online video service, which is jointly owned by NBC Universal, Fox, and Disney-owned ABC.
However, L.A. Times says, “The presentations to the potential suitors are a first step as Hulu’s owners …
