Jan. 27th Apple Tablet PC Event Gets Official

Apple's confirmed the January 27th event at their Cupertino campus, scheduled to introduce, most believe, a new tablet or "slate" PC. There is also speculation that the event could announce iPhone OS 4, which may (finally) include background processing...

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Another $1,000 App Hits The App Store

You may recall "I Am Rich," the somewhat bogus $1,000 iPhone app that made it into the App Store in mid-2008, then was dropped when Apple realized how silly it was. Despite that, six people actually purchased it before it was booted out. Now we have...

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Hacker Releases Tool So You Can Hide From Google

Hacker Releases Tool So You Can Hide From Google Everything Google, with the exception of their business-quality services, is free. For that free service, you let Google monitor just about everything you do on the Internet. Now, a hacker who calls...

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NVIDIA Refreshes Its Generic Notebook Drivers

In mid-December NVIDIA (finally) released a set of notebook device drivers, that supported 8- and 9-series GPU, promising an update in Q1 2009 that would support all mobile GPUs. On Wednesday they delivered it.The 179.48 drivers are still festooned with...

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How to Rid Yourself of Microsoft's Stealth Firefox Extension

I hate stealth installs, software components that are installed without your knowledge and frequently aren't all that easy to remove. Not content to muck around with its own software, Microsoft has decided to start mucking around with competitor software:...

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iPhone App Ad Hoc Distribution End User Instructions

Have you ever been invited to beta test an iPhone application? Because of the way that Apple distributes apps, only through the iPhone, developers trying to run an iPhone beta program have to jump through hoops to do so. End users trying to participate...

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