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Quick Facts Featured Story Palm CEO, former Apple exec says he’s never used an iPhone Excerpt In an interview at CES this week, Palm chief executive and former iPod chief Jon Rubinstein said his company doesn’t pay much attention to Apple, and noted he has never even used an [...]

Quick Facts Featured Story CES: Intel takes wraps off netbook app store, dubbed ‘AppUp’ Excerpt Intel this week unveiled a beta version of its application storefront for netbooks, designed to make downloading and purchasing applications similar to the experience on App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Called the [...]

Lately I’ve been a bit concerned. One of the things I love about the internet is that it allows anyone to invent something like a programming language or a blogging system. That’s really good. But what’s bad is that it seems like there are a lot of lessons we should have learned from the past that [...]

Today I was searching for information why the iPhone doesn’t implement garbage collection. Programs using Cocoa for the Mac do have garbage collection available. Everywhere I looked I saw people stating their opinion that garbage collection was not implemented because it was a performance hog and would reduce battery life. Now, this may be the case, [...]

This evening Apple released a firmware update for the SuperDrives in MacBooks. The description of the update was: This update addresses noise made by the optical disk drive during wake from sleep on your Mac. i’m hoping this update does more than that. My MacBook sometimes won’t restart and I have to take out the battery and [...]

Quick Facts Featured Story Oracle pledges to play well with MySQL Excerpt But recent discussions between Oracle and the EC have apparently been fruitful, as Oracle on Monday pledged 10 “commitments to customers, developers and users of MySQL.” Among other things, the company pledged to spend more cash than Sun [...]