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Is Apple bigger than Exxon?

By On August 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The iconic maker of iPhones and iPads briefly overtook Exxon

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NASA aims for humans to travel to stars in 100 years

By On June 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment


NASA together with the Pentagon wants to draw up plans to get humans to visit other worlds in a hundred years. The project will be called the 100 Year Starship Study.

“On Thursday, an official with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that the agency will award a $500,000 [...]

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The truth is in the cloud

By On June 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Apple introduces iCloud and makes it the center of the Digital Universe. Welcome to the Post-Pc world.

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Apple: We have fix to cure MacDefender malware

By On June 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Apple sent out Security Update 2011-003. It is a small download, just a little over 2MB. What this does is to update Mac OS X’s file quarantine malware check definition. This is Apple’s little known anti-malware software. What Security Update 2011-003 also does is to remove MacDefender, as well as its known variants. [...]

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[Infographic] The Size of the Social Media Universe

By On May 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This infographic shows the Geosocial Universe. It was made by Jess3. From a certain point of view, it also kinda illustrates a reason why Microsoft bought Skype. That’s 663M users right there, and they are bigger than Facebook’s 629M, hotmail’s 364 million, or Yahoo Mail’s 273 million.

Twitter’s at 6th place with [...]

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It’s Official: Sony Playstation Network returns!

By On May 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Kazuro Hirai, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Deputy President of Sony announced the return of the Playstation network. The announcement comes after a month that the Playstation Network was done following hacker attacks on Sony. Hirai reiterated earlier Sony announcements that they are offering added security, as well as identity theft protection.

Here [...]

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First time ever: Stock Ticker becomes a trending topic

By On May 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Networking company Cisco’s stock ticker, $CSCO became the first stock ticker to trend on twitter

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iPad 2 is a solid upgrade, best tablet for average consumers

By On March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber weighed in his review of iPad 2:

The iPad 2 is a solid second-generation iteration. Easier and more comfortable to hold, noticeably faster, equippable with foldable covers that are both literally and figuratively magnetic. Like last year’s iPhone 4, it seems like technology from the near future.

Walt [...]

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DIY Pulse laser gun

By On March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Wow. Slashgear wrote:

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The gun is called the DIY Pulse Laser Gun and was built by Patrick Priebe. The builder says that the gun has a small pulse laser head with a kW-pulse of infrared coherent light. A single shot can punch through a razor blade, plastic, and 5mm thick [...]

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Apple event alert: iOS 5, MobileMe in April?

By On March 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Macrumors quoted Macerkopf.de that the latter claims an Apple event will happen in April. This time for iOS 5 and MobileMe. Macrumors does say that mid-year developer event to feature the next version of iOS is typically held at the first to second week of April. No word yet whether the event [...]

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