By Ed Sutherland (11:03 am, Aug. 15, 2011)
Ross Duff of Huntsville, Ohio's Duff Quarry. The iPad gets operators outside the control room. (Credit: Rock Products Magazine)
The iPad, more accustom to flinging angry birds than multi-ton slabs of rock, turns out to be the perfect tool for the modern quarry. Indeed, designed for the road warrior, Apple’s tablet seems at home with the rock warrior.
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By Ed Sutherland (9:29 am, Aug. 15, 2011)
News that high-end TVs are nearing the sub $1,000 range may be the impetus for Apple to enter the market, a new report suggests. For some time, talk has swirled around the tech giant moving beyond the world of 10-inch screens. Might 32-inches and above be the next step for Cupertino?
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By Ed Sutherland (8:31 am, Aug. 15, 2011)
Now that Google owns a handset maker, will the $12.5 billion deal end Motorola’s patent-infringement complaints against Apple? Not likely, says the Android creator.
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By John Brownlee (8:03 am, Aug. 15, 2011)
The safe bet is that the iPhone 5 will stick with 3G instead of lightning fast LTE 4G mobile broadband, but not so fast! A new report on Monday says that Apple’s 4G-capable carrier partners are already testing iPhones with LTE capability.
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By Ed Sutherland (7:43 am, Aug. 15, 2011)
Apple has told its handset suppliers to expect a boatload of iPhone orders for the second half of 2011, reportedly increasing the initial number to 56 million from 50 million units. Half of those handsets are for the much-anticipated iPhone 5, according to a Monday report.
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By Killian Bell (6:57 am, Aug. 15, 2011)
Following the release of Edge earlier this month, a new tool for creating HTML5 animations and webpages, Adobe continues its support for HTML5 with the release of Muse, which makes it easy for those without any prior knowledge of HTML5 or CSS3 to create websites.
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By Alex Heath (2:48 pm, Aug. 14, 2011)
Apple is gearing up for the construction of its new headquarters in Cupertino, California. Steve Jobs proposed plans for the new campus to the Cupertino City Council back in June, and the city quickly gave a resounding approval for Apple to begin work on its new mothership.
A development proposal has been submitted by Apple to the City Council with more details and renderings of the future campus. And we have to say, it looks awesome. Read the rest of this post »
By Cate Defrise (11:57 am, Aug. 12, 2011)
Here’s this week’s selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun, casual games you can play into the weekend. The game picks include a goliathan task for a fool, hilarious puzzlers, shopping sprees at your family’s department store and more. Come back every Friday to check out the games. Have a good weekend.
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By Killian Bell (8:24 am, Aug. 12, 2011)
One Intel director revealed in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal that Apple threatened to drop the chip maker over its hungry processors if it couldn’t “drastically slash” the amount of power they demanded. Read the rest of this post »
By Killian Bell (6:40 am, Aug. 12, 2011)
Following the discovery of some pretty convincing fake Apple stores in China a few weeks ago, the Chinese authorities have been on the hunt for more. Their last find uncovered a whole 22 stores in the city of Kunming along. Read the rest of this post »