It’s that time again: When the evil, obsessive-compulsive, mirror-verse me starts picking at piles of disorganized digital information, speaking in sepulchral tones: “Time to get to work, Matt.” This time it’s my iTunes library …
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Ridiculous Drama: Microsoft Internet Explorer vs. Google
Microsoft — long relegated to the uncool corner of the tech world by popular kids Google and Facebook — is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. First, it released an ad campaign in the wake of Google’s controversial …
Google’s Safari Privacy Snafu: Just Not Feeling the Outrage
I’m probably supposed to be mortified by Google’s latest privacy blunder. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google found a loophole in Apple’s Safari browser — both on desktops and iOS devices — that allowed the search …
Apple’s Mountain Lion Developer Preview Bricked My MacBook
No really, the developer preview of Mountain Lion bricked my MacBook Air last night. As we’re fond of saying here at Techland, “Whoopsie-doodle.”
I blame myself, of course, something I’m fond of calling “bad user on device …
For Apple, a Victory at Last in ‘Slide-to-Unlock’ Patent Feud with Motorola
When you place your finger on your smartphone’s touchscreen and swipe to unlatch its multifaceted features, you’re now officially doing ‘The Apple’. Okay, it turns out you already were, but it wasn’t clear whether rival Motorola …
Apple Has an ‘iTV’ Naming Problem (UPDATE)
Although “iTV” seems like an ideal name for Apple’s rumored television, the company may have to pick something else due to trademark troubles.
ITV, a U.K. cable and Internet service provider, has reportedly raised concerns …
Are Apps More Crash-Prone on iOS than Android?
I can’t say I’ve seen a single app crash on my iPhone 4 since I upgraded to iOS 5 last October, but a new study from app-monitoring outfit Crittercism found that apps running on Apple’s newest mobile platform for iPhones, iPads …
Watch: Ex-Apple Employee Claims Company Puts New Engineers on Fake Projects
I knew Apple had a reputation for secrecy, but this is just crazy. Apparently the folks up at Cupertino are so paranoid about new employees leaking information that they put them to work on fake products until they can be …
Shoppers Open iPad Boxes to Find Bags of Clay Instead
Clay! It’s nature’s iPad. Drag your finger across it to create drawings, multitask by molding it into the shape of a camera or typewriter, see what your friends are up to by ripping a hole in it and peering through.
Shoppers …
Apple Cancels Beijing iPhone 4S Sales, Gets Egg on Store and Face
Note to Apple: If there’s any way you can avoid shuttering one of your flagship stores on the very day you launch a new iPhone, well, good luck with that when the store’s in Beijing, your customers broke its glass door in a prior …
New iPads Imminent? Source Claims Taiwan Manufacturer Already Taking Orders
DigiTimes may be the new 50-50, as in “half the time they’re kind of right,” “half the time they’re mostly wrong,” but okay, we’ll bite: Another supply chain source just told the rumormonger that Taiwanese electronics supplier …
Mass Media + Cloud Storage = All the Same Mistakes?
What if Hollywood tried to create its own content cloud, but the Internet didn’t want to use it? That’s the problem emerging with news that Netflix has dropped out of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, a move that could …
