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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: iPhone’s missing features

I want to start out by saying that I think that the iPhone will be wildly successful. I think that Apple will sell boat loads of them. I will definitely be buying one, at minimum for research purposes. That being said, it would be irresponsible to simply laud the device without pointing out some of it’s more serious deficiencies, and there are several of them.

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Apple Using “Weasel Language” with iPhone

The Apple Blog’s Iyaz Akhtar takes issue with Apple’s iPhone naming strategy, implying that the company may not be sure about the name and wanted to give itself an easy way out if something bad happend. When people see an iMac or an iPod for the first time they look at the device from all […]

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hard drive

Seagate Announces World’s Fastest HDD – and it’s a Notebook Drive

Seagate Technology has announced what it claims to be “the world’s fastest hard drive” – the Savvio 15K with a seek time of a mere 2.9 ms.

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News

Digital Editions for Mac Beta Now Available

Adobe has released an open beta of Digital Editions for Mac, an upcoming software package that allows users to read and manage eBooks as well as other digital publications. The software can function as both an Internet application as well as work offline, supporting both PDF and XHTML-based publications. The Digital Editions beta is a […]

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Consumer Electronics

Netflix Announces Movie Streaming Service

“We’ve gotten used to it,” Netflix’s chief executive, Reed Hastings, said of the doomsday predictions. But Mr. Hastings also said he understood why questions about his business kept coming up. “Because DVD is not a hundred-year format, people wonder what will Netflix’s second act be.