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MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro With Biometrics

I’m amazed at how many people are willing to chop up their brand new toys. Take [edahc]’s brand new MacBook Pro. He decided to mount a Sony Puppy FIU-600 fingerprint scanner in the case. The device is powered directly from the DC board. I think the MacBook Pro may actually lend itself more to these […]

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Opinion

India: Why Apple Walked Away

Yet he is also a tough-minded executive who knows when to cut and run. That’s why Apple Computer Inc. has shelved plans to build a sprawling technical support center in Bangalore, even as IBM (IBM ) and other tech powers are ramping up. Just three months back, Apple appeared to be on the same trajectory, […]

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Opinion

The Road to VoIP: PhoneWars

Voice over IP is a technology designed to move communications from the existing, old phone system to the Internet. This series of articles looks the benefits and risks of VoIP and how the technology is developing. This first article considers the reasons for, and challenges behind, replacing the existing old phone empire with a new system.

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Subscription Music from iTMS & .Mac

Everyone likes stuff for free, so when Apple started giving away a new music track every Tuesday, they found a wide audience interested in downloading whatever Apple�s iTunes Music Store staff had picked out.

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MacBook

The Apple Core: MacBook sales explode; 15-inch version due?

DigiTimes is reporting that sales of Apple’s Intel Core Duo-powered MacBook notebooks are exceeding initial estimates and that the company is consider expanding the line to include a 15-inch model. I think that it would kill MacBook Pro sales and that they should release a 12-inch model instead. Read the rest of the story on […]