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Microsoft to open 75 retail locations over next 2-3 years

If you can’t beat ’em, follow their lead and eventually try to take them down. Per Neowin, Microsoft plans to massively expand its retail presence to take in the U.S. in the next 2 to 3 years, with an aggressive goal of 75 new stores to take on Apple’s own retail operations. The plans are […]

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OWC launches Data Doubler DIY Kit for Unibody MacBook, MacBook Pro systems

On Tuesday Other World Computing announced the immediate availability of its OWC Data Doubler 1.0 DIY Kit for adding up to 2.0TB of internal storage capacity to Apple’s “Unibody” MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. The US$174.99 MSRP OWC Data Doubler 1.0TB DIY Kit is now available and features a Data Doubler optical bay converter bracket, […]

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Mozilla releases Firefox 5.0.1 update

Late Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 5.0.1 of its Firefox web browser. The new version stands as an 27.8 megabyte download offered the following fixes and changes: – Worked around an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that could cause Firefox to crash. – Worked around an issue caused by Apple’s “Java for Mac OS X […]

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Netflix revamps pricing plans, DVDs and streaming now under different terms

You’re not going to like this. Netflix announced today that it is drastically changing pricing. Beginning immediately for new customers, and on September 1 for existing customers wherein if you want to stream movies and get DVDs in the mail, you will have to pay for two seperate plans. Per Mac|Life, Netflix is now offering […]

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Apple releases iOS 5 beta 3, iTunes 10.5 beta to developer community

Late Monday Apple iOS 5 beta 3 to developers, the latest pre-release build of its forthcoming mobile operating system update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Per the Mac Observer, sources with access to the latest beta now available for download said it is dubbed Build 9A5259f and that significant changes to the software […]