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Video Demonstrates Wired’s Concept iTablet App

Published 33 minutes ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Who takes Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired ’s parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the rumored Apple tablet (even though ...
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Steve Jobs to Developer: Name Change ‘Not That Big of a Deal’

Published 11 hours ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Apple is mighty protective of its iPod trademark, and if you violate it, you’ll get no sympathy from Steve Jobs. Apple recently sent a letter to software company Little App Factory, requesting that it change the name of its most successful applications: “iPodRip,” an app ...
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The Hack is Back: OS X Fixed to Run on Atom Netbooks

Published 20 hours ago by Charlie Sorrel at Wired: Gadget Lab

When Apple dropped support for Atom processors in OS X 10.6.2, effectively killing Hackintosh netbooks, we knew that somebody would fix things. We didn’t know that it would happen so fast. Just over a week after the update, Russian hacker “Tea” has made a patched kernel ...
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Silicon Sweatshops: Gadget Factories Take a Toll on Workers
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Silicon Sweatshops: Gadget Factories Take a Toll on Workers
— wired.com — By Thomas Mucha, GlobalPost BOSTON — Do you know who made your iPhone? Sure, that shimmering device in your palm is packed with Silicon Valley smarts. The influence of Steve Jobs and his happy band of engineers is present in its sleek ... (more) Silicon Sweatshops: Gadget Factories Take a Toll on Workers

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Belgian Robbers Score $3M Worth of iPhones

Published 3 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Burglars over the weekend robbed a warehouse in Antwerp, Belgium, making off with $3 million worth of Apple’s popular iPhone, according to reports in the Belgian press. The thieves reportedly used a fire ladder to climb to the roof of a warehouse, where they cut a hole to gain access ...
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How Microsoft Blew It With Windows Mobile

Published 3 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Microsoft Windows continues to dominate the PC market with a 90 percent market-share stronghold, but when it comes to smartphones, Microsoft is getting beat up worse than a mustachioed villain in a Jackie Chan movie. Windows Mobile has lost nearly a third of its smartphone market share ...
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Android’s Rapid Growth Has Some Developers Worried

Published 4 days ago by Priya Ganapati at Wired: Gadget Lab

A year after its release, Google’s open source Android operating system has become a sensation. After a slow start, it is now available on at least 12 phones, with more devices waiting in the wings. Good news for Android fans, right? Not really, say some developers. A slew of ...
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Mac Cloner Psystar Guilty of Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules

Published 4 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Apple has won an important round of its legal battle against Psystar, a Florida-based startup that has been selling Mac clones for over a year. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled late last Friday that by selling PCs hacked to run Mac OS X, Psystar has violated Apple’s copyrights. ...
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Augmented Reality Ghost Hunting Creeps Into App Store

Published 7 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

I ain’t afraid of no iGhost! I’m talking about this app Augmented Reality Ghost Hunting (ARGH), for the iPhone. The app festively debuted on this glorious Friday the 13th, and I guess it’s supposed to creep us out, but it just got me giggling. The objective of ARGH is to ...
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Jailbreak Community Battles Apple for Control of iPhone

Published 8 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone’s secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, delivering the handset to international ...
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Who Wants a Stylus? Apple Is Thinking About It

Published 8 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

A recently published patent from Apple depicts pen-based handwriting recognition software that would work with tablet-like devices. The described invention (screenshot at right) demonstrates a method to make digital handwriting recognition better than technologies used in the past. An ...
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Macworld Loses Steve Jobs, Welcomes Back Kevin Smith

Published 9 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

The famous Steve Jobs has backed out of Macworld for good, and now the trade show has invited a different celebrity face to attract attendees: Kevin Smith. Indeed, Kevin Smith, the director who brought us such classics as Clerks , Mallrats and Dogma . During the February trade show, Smith ...
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Apple App Store Takes One Tiny Step Toward Transparency
— wired.com — Taking a small step toward openness, Apple is rolling out a brand new way for iPhone developers to track the status of apps they’ve submitted to the App Store. While it may not sound like much, the move gives iPhone developers reason to ... (more) Apple App Store Takes One Tiny Step Toward Transparency

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Apple Didn’t Break ‘Support’ for Hackintoshes

Published 10 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Apple’s latest Snow Leopard update breaks compatibility with netbooks hacked to run the Mac operating system. But it’s unlikely that the move signifies the company’s future plans to clamp down on the “Hackintosh” community, observers say. That’s because ...
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Confirmed: Snow Leopard Update Kills Atom Hackintoshes

Published 10 days ago by Charlie Sorrel at Wired: Gadget Lab

Just as we feared, the latest update to Snow Leopard, version 10.6.2, drops support for the Intel Atom processor. This means that anyone with a “hackintosh” who tries to update to the latest operating system version will see their computer die, going no further than the gray ...
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Snow Leopard Update Fixes ‘Guest’ Account Bug

Published 11 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Apple on Monday released a software update for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system. The free update addresses some major issues, including a bug that erased large amounts of a user’s data. A small number of Snow Leopard customers in October reported that their primary user ...
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iTab Mania: Wired.com Readers Beat Apple to Producing a Tablet

Published 12 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

<< previous image | next image >> Rumored for an early 2010 release, Apple’s touchscreen tablet is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated gadgets since the iPhone. But words aren’t doing it justice. ...
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Verizon iPhone Could Arrive Next Year After All
— wired.com — After Verizon aired advertisements bashing the iPhone, many tech observers agreed it was unimaginable that Apple could be considering sharing the popular smartphone with Verizon. But a new report suggests the contrary. Apple is indeed ... (more) Verizon iPhone Could Arrive Next Year After All

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Rumor: Next iPhone to Gain Radio-Frequency Powers

Published 14 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Apple is rumored to be testing a prototype of its fourth-generation iPhone with a radio-frequency identification chip, which could greatly enhance the handset’s capabilities for business and scientific applications. Business news publication Near Field Communications World cites a ...
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Video: iPhone Apps for Shutterbugs

Published 14 days ago by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab

Let’s face it: The iPhone’s camera kind of stinks. And if you suck at photography, it really makes it obvious. Fortunately, there’s a host of iPhone apps out there to beautify your shots. The ones I like most maintain the iPhone’s principle of keeping things ...
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