Archive for May, 2011 - Page 14

Great news for Mac users comes out of Amazon today, who’s just announced the opening of their newest sub-store, the Mac Download Store. And even better, they’ve got some sale prices going on, so if you’ve been looking for that specific piece of software for your Mac, now would be [...]

I guess bad tech news comes in threes, folks, because following reports of a fix for Skype for Mac and troubles with the Lenovo ThinkPad X220, new reports emerged of troubles with the HTC Thunderbolt as well. And these reports are coming hot on the heels of the recent update [...]

It’s been a strange day for random equipment failures, folks–first we came out with word about Skype for Mac, and now we’re seeing some reports that Lenovo ThinkPad X220 users are seeing some particularly unpleasant issues with their hardware, and without an easy explanation as to why.

So it’s a little on the ironic side–or maybe the downright bone-chilling side, depending on how you look at it–that only a couple weeks after Microsoft buys Skype, reports of it not working well with Macs emerges. But recently, Skype users running Mac OS X reported some troubles not only [...]

Facebook and music; the two just kind of go together, don’t they? Cookies and milk, mice and cheese…lots of other great pairings. But Facebook doesn’t have a whole lot of musical presence these days, but that may be about to change as reports emerge suggesting that Spotify is looking to [...]

Remember when our own Kevin Schram brought you that story back in December about how Steve Wozniak bought a white iPhone from a kid in Queens named Fai Lam? Well, Apple did not take too kindly to his activities and launched a lawsuit just yesterday suing him over “deceptive practices”. [...]

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop sat down with the folks behind the Nokia Conversations blog to answer some questions about the future of the company. The Canadian-born CEO is touring China and Nokia China, and he answered some questions on camera. What we found interesting, is that Nokia is committed to [...]

Motorola originally announced that the Xoom with Wi-Fi would be available in Canada back in late-March, and of course that launch date was April 15th. Anyway, at the time the Xoom launched with Best Buy and Future Shop and then came available with Telus a few days later on April [...]

We got some old-fashioned juicy rumors for you today. English-language outlet The Korean Herald is reporting that a source is claiming that Apple COO (and acting CEO) Tim Cook is flying into Korea this week to meet with Samsung executives. What are they discussing? Apparently, Apple is considering including Samsung [...]

Many Sprint, or potential Sprint customers may be waiting for June 9th when they are expected to announce the Motorola Photon 4G, however it looks like Sprint may be releasing another handset a few days earlier — on June 5th.