That Apple (AAPL) will announce the iPhone 4G on June 7 is a pretty open secret. But an interesting tidbit from Boy Genius Report suggests that the new product will be out in June, rather than Apple’s usual July release.
Although the usual launch window gives Apple significant marketing advantages, it doesn’t have a choice this [...]
Last year’s Dell Studio 1557 sat atop our A List for some time. With one of the first Core i7 processors at the helm, it offered a uniquely inexpensive combination of ergonomics and power. Since then, Intel has released its Core i3 and i5 processors, and Dell has seized the opportunity to give them a [...]
Technically, Intel’s new Core i5-655K and i7-875K CPUs are a very minor tweak to the existing i5-650 and i7-870 parts. They have the same number of Hyper-Threaded cores (two and four respectively), the same cache configurations and the same basic clock speeds - 3.2GHz for the Core i5 part and 2.93GHz for the i7.
The difference [...]
“A pretty intense two weeks” for Facebook has produced “a pretty big overhaul” of the online social networking site’s privacy controls, company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto.
The move followed growing criticism from consumers and privacy advocates that Facebook initiatives have eroded personal privacy. “A lot of [...]
Barnes & Noble Inc. today finally introduced an e-reader app for the iPad, nearly two months after the bookseller had said that it planned to release such an app “around the time” of the April 3 launch of Apple’s tablet.
The free app will be the only iPad e-reader that allows a user to share an [...]
It looks like Zynga, the casual online games developer known for its wildly popular farm simulations, ticking off Facebook, and alleged “lead generation” scams just added another lifeline to its list of audience-expanding deals by cozying up to Yahoo.
Talk about sweet deals, the move would put Zynga’s games in front of Yahoo’s entire 600 million [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand.
The moment came Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, [...]