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CBS lets the cat out of the bag on HTML5 video iPad tests The iPad launch is a little more than a week out and unsurprisingly, Flash support is still nowhere to be seen. Content providers understand that Apple means business with this no Flash stuff, too. While no one else is openly talking about […]
If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, they’ll have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank. In part, that’s because Windows 7 actually builds on the under-the-hood changes that came with Vista.
Apple profits jumped 47 percent on surging iPhone and Macintosh computer sales in the latest quarter, capping a remarkable boom year for a company whose rivals were lucky to tread water. Although Google and other tech companies have recently reported strong results or an improved outlook, raising optimism in the sector, none have outstripped expectations as markedly as Apple.
Amazon said it would begin selling an international version of its popular e-reader that will work in more than 100 countries on October 19. The world’s largest online retailer also said it was lowering the price of the Kindle 2 in the US from $299 to $259, a move likely to spur sales ahead of the holiday season.
Many Google users probably didn’t notice this month that they can now display their search tips in the Hawaiian language.
Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to reject apps at will — as it did July 28 with Google Voice.
There is a dangerous anticheating sentiment in this country. We are disgusted by David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez for taking steroids — even though steroids made Boston relevant for the first time in 200 years. We are appalled by swimmers who break records with full-body polyurethane suits — despite the fact that this technology allows straight men to look directly at the television.
Listening to a song on an iPhone is a quick, simple process: open Apple’s iTunes music player and select the song you want to hear. That’s it.
A Bronx woman has been charged with murder and robbery in the death of an 89-year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor, and police said a man is still being sought in connection with the death. Angela Murray, 30, was arrested Saturday, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, and is accused of strangling Guido Felix Brinkmann on Thursday in his Upper East Side apartment.
A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor was found strangled Thursday in his Upper East Side apartment, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner said Friday. Felix Brinkmann, a native of Latvia, escaped death for a year while he was in the Nazis’ Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz concentration camps