Apple was first to use Intel's Thunderbolt I/O interface on laptops. The company also chose to create its own version of a hybrid drive for Macs rather than use one of several all-in-one offerings available from third party vendors. So ...
Apple on Monday trumpeted OS X 10.9, or Mavericks, but made a U-turn from past practice and declined to name a price for the upgrade or tap a ship date as anything more specific than the fall. The departure from tradition lends credence ...
Cloud storage service SugarSync today announced it is offering users the ability to remotely delete all their synced files from a PC or Mac in the event it is lost or stolen. Remote wipe capabilities are typically offered as part of ...
Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds compared to flash drives that plug into USB ports. Intel's prototype Thunderbolt thumb ...
Apple on Tuesday updated OS X Mountain Lion, likely for one of the last times, with a combination of compatibility and reliability bug fixes as well as vulnerability patches. The update to OS X 10.8.4 -- the first from Apple since ...
Tags: Apple, Lion Bugs, Java Defenses
A low-power Thunderbolt interconnect for smartphones and tablets is in the works, but the wired technology may not thrive if consumers prefer products using the wireless WiGig specification for data transfers. There is a need for faster ...
Tags: Low-Power Thunderbolt, Tablets, Smartphones
Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) with Windows 8.1 later this year, but on Monday the company passed on saying whether the same browser would also be available to Windows 7 users. "We aren't sharing anything around which ...
Music and video enthusiasts who use their Macs as their primary entertainment centers know the industry's ugly little truth – there really isn't a single media player that can play back everything you throw at it – until now. ...
Tags: Wondershare, Media Player, Mac
Western Digital, a company well known for manufacturing consumer and enterprise hard drives, as well as small NAS boxes for the SMB market, is expanding its focus on the latter market with a new line of rack-mount storage systems. Its ...
Software giant Microsoft claims that consumers are taking to subscription models in a big way with the news that it has sold more than one million subscriptions for Office 365 Home Premium since its launch in January. The company claims ...
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The long-running war between Google and Microsoft may never have a winner, an analyst said on Wednesday, but it definitely has a loser: customers. “These are business decisions, but unfortunately, consumers and very small businesses ...
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After 10 years, developers of Camino, a Mac-only browser built atop Mozilla's Gecko engine, called it quits yesterday. "Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all users to upgrade to a more modern browser," stated a message ...
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Apple will build Macs in Texas using some parts made in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday, putting a little flesh on a pledge from last December. In a prepared statement Cook read before a Senate subcommittee yesterday, the chief ...
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Google today upgraded Chrome to version 27, touting it as 5% faster as it patched 13 vulnerabilities. The upgrade was the first since March 26, when Google plumped Chrome 26 into the release channel, the most polished of its three public ...
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Intel is introducing new ideas to secure the public cloud, offering a service in which online files can be accessed after users are verified by an authentication scheme including face and voice recognition. McAfee, a unit of Intel, is ...
Tags: Intel, McAfee, Cloud Storage