By the time I graduated from high school in 1996, I was one of two people in my school routinely carrying a notebook computer through the halls of Providence Country Day in East Providence, Rhode Island. I carried a PowerBook 150 and one of my best friends, Josh Ledgard, carried a white Toshiba notebook that […]
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Sometimes a Web technology just has to ride off into the sunset. According to The Verge, Adobe’s mobile Flash days are now numbered, as the company has announced that it will no longer accept new Flash Player installations through the Google Play application store after August 15 and will not support the upcoming 4.1 Jelly […]
Apple’s HDTV units might be en route relatively soon. Per China Business News, Apple this month is reported to have begun production of the first prototypes of its much-anticipated connected television sets at one of its overseas manufacturing facilities ahead of a general production ramp expected to begin late in the 2012 calendar year. The […]
It never hurts to have different options for your user interface. Per Engadget, an Apple patent application for an optical stylus has turned up on the United States Patent Trade Office website. Although late Apple CEO Steve Jobs had derided the stylus as an input method for the iPhone and the iPad once famously saying […]
This whole thing about the next-gen iPhone containing a larger screen? It might be what Steve Jobs would have wanted. According to Bloomberg, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs “worked closely on” the upcoming iPhone before he died. According to sources familiar with Apple’s plans, the Cupertino, Calif., company has ordered from suppliers screens that are […]