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  ‘Tis the season for Apple fans around the world to line up (or wait for the doorbell to ring) and get their hands on a shrink-wrapped, boxed-up, shiny new iPhone. Of course the killer feature of this year’s iPhone 4S is undoubtedly the A.I. assistant, Siri. As Siri is described as Beta software, you […]

It’s official, folks: Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype is a done deal. The two companies can now forge ahead with whatever plans for dominating world communications they’ve hatched, though chances are good they were already working on them anyway. A note of apology goes out to the Italian VoIP company Messagenet, whose pleading that the EU re-examine […]

The people who program malware are typically a cagey bunch, and they truly clever ones are a step or two ahead of the security community. Sometimes, however, the systems they compromise don’t line up with their intended goals. Whoever it is that’s behind the virus infecting the U.S. unmanned drone fleet, for example. It’s unlikely […]

Releasing a new version of an operating system every 6 months may sound like a hard target to hit repeatedly, but Canonical is proving they can do it, and introduce worthwhile new functionality with each new version. Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is no exception, and as of today you can download it for free, of […]

Oh, those crazy Shanzai manufacturers. Long renowned for their… er… unconventional way of doing business, they’re the folks who churn out millions of gadgets every year that are “inspired” by devices like the iPhone, iPad, and Galaxy S2. Their latest masterpiece: the Angry Birds tablet. It’s built by the folks at Shenzen Technology Company, who […]

It’s not turning out to be a great week for Sony. Yesterday the company found out another 93,000 accounts had been hacked across its entertainment network including PSN. Now, Sony is having to issue a warning and offer repairs to some 1.6 million LCD TVs that are carrying faulty components. The faults are potentially dangerous, […]

Sure, the Siri personal assistant looked cool in Apple’s demos both during last week’s iPhone event, and in their in-house promo videos. But those are produced by people whose job is to make Siri look as good as possible. But what about when customers get their hands on it? As the iPhone 4S has been shipping […]

It’s a bar only a few pixels tall at the top of their sites, but Google has taken plenty of heat in the past for changes made to its cross-site navigation bar. Perhaps the most loudly protested move was the ousting of Google Reader, which was replaced by a Picasa Web Albums link labeled “photos.” […]

The Ultrabooks are coming, and we now know whose Windows-powered MacBook Air alternative is going to land on retail shelves first. While it initially looked like Asus might be first out of the gate, Acer has beaten them to the punch. The Aspire S3 Ultrabook goes on sale this week in the U.S. and Canada […]

Last week Google and Samsung  decided to wait to announce their “next big thing”. The companies say that they will announce a new date and venue in due course, so hopefully the wait for the Nexus Prime/Galaxy Nexus, or whatever else the duo had planned, isn’t too long. In the meantime, the leaks for this […]