Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘Apple’
If you’ve ever been snickering over the latest YouTube viral video on your smartphone in the evening and ended up frustrated by slow load times and a congested network, you’re not alone — and that’s exactly the problem.
July 30, 2010 | Posted in
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Updates to the Firefox Home app for iPhone and to the Firefox Sync add-on for Firefox ( Windows |Mac) fix the top three problems users reported for each program, says Mozilla . The new version of Firefox Home (1.0.1) , a companion app for the Firefox browser on iPhone , now supports usernames with upper-case letters for logging in to the URL viewer. It also inserts a help button on the log-in page that will link you to common troubleshooting tips
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Canadian users will be the envy of many American iOS consumers as the Canadian iPhone 4 will get a 6 GB iPhone plan from wireless carrier Rogers–compared to the $25 2 GB on AT&T–as well as an option for iPad sharing. That’s right, you can share you iPhone’s data plan, something you haven’t been able to do, with a WiFi-only iPad for only $20 more a month, which is inline with AT&T’s tethering plan though the US carrier doesn’t offer a means to tether your iPhone to the iPad. Permalink: Canadian iPhone 4 Gets iPad Sharing Data Option from Ubergizmo | Hot: iPhone 4 Review , iPad Review
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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In covering digital media for CNET News, Greg Sandoval has broken stories on Apple, Microsoft, YouTube, The Pirate Bay, and the digital efforts of the major music labels and Hollywood studios. Before that, in his first tour with CNET News, he covered e-commerce during the dot-com boom and bust. A dogged investigative reporter, he began his journalism career at the Los Angeles Times and followed that with a short TV stint at The E! True Hollywood Story.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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According to a new report by One World Computing, it will be extremely difficult, though not impossible, to install a secondary solid state drive (SSD) to the new 27-inch iMac introduced earlier this week as part of Apple’s desktop upgrades. While the new iMac can support a secondary drive, unless you order one with the secondary SSD pre-installed from Apple, there are no mounting brackets or connectors for easy installation.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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REDMOND, Wash.–Acknowledging Apple’s early success with the iPad , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted Thursday that the software maker is hard at work on Windows-based tablets . The Apple iPad: can Microsoft match it?
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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To quote the iconic 1960s drummer Buddy Miles , the graphics chip market is “going through them changes.” As Nvidia falters, Advanced Micro Devices’ ATI graphics unit is on the rise, spurred by “radical” shifts in the market, according to Mercury Research, which tracks the market for GPUs or graphics processing units. “AMD surpassed Nvidia this quarter in overall shipments…(and) is now the leading supplier of standalone GPU and of notebook standalone GPUs, and the second largest supplier of graphics solutions overall,” the Mercury Research report says
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Apple’s Magic TrackPad has been given iFixit’s customary teardown – and they can confirm that magical unicorns are not part of the components list. The teardown specialists discovered that Broadcom’s chips are the key components, running both the touch surface and the Bluetooth connectivity. It is Broadcom chips that can be found performing similar roles in the Magic Mouse and iPad/iPhone from Apple
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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REDMOND, Wash.–Aiming to show it is still winning customers against Google, Microsoft on Thursday announced deals to provide hosted e-mail and portal software to three big corporate customers. The software maker said Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels, and the University of Georgia are all using the company’s hosted e-mail and portal software, known as Microsoft Online. The announcements were timed to come just as Microsoft is set to host its financial analyst meeting here.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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There’s no doubt that Apple has done a fantastic job with the iPhone, both in the hardware and in the software. It has single-handedly transformed the once-turgid smartphone market into a total money spinner. Every manufacturer has had to rethink its strategy to compete, giving Linux the perfect opportunity to test its mettle
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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