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We previously covered the announcement of Google’s new mobile app for the iPhone, available for free on the App Store. Since that time there have been many reports about its accuracy at interpreting people’s spoken requests. Today we’re featuring a guest post by Kevin Guiney, who tried to get Google to answer a variety of questions [...]

When the iPhone 3G first shipped we did a feature on the 3G extended battery options available for it. At the time, we highlighted the Kensington Mini Battery Pack and Charger and the Mophie juice pack. Neither were designed with the iPhone 3G in mind, but they got the job done. Now there are a [...]

I’ve written a number of times in the past about making sure you have a backup of your important data. Time Machine on the Mac makes it relatively effortless to backup your system, and I even restored from it recently to get a new MacBook up and running. While Time Machine is a [...]

Steve Jobs is once again answering the tech support email for Apple.  Following a complaint from a frustrated MacBook user via email concerning the trackpad issue of not registering all clicks input by the user, Apple has called and emailed frustrated customers assuring them that the issue is being worked on by the company. The functionality [...]

I participate in a lot of conference calls and most of them are web-based. While traditionally we don’t tend to fire up the webcam, sometimes it’s nice to do a virtual face-to-face. My MacBook features a built-in iSight camera, but most of the time, when I’m at my desk, I have it hooked up to an [...]

We’ve reported on this in the past, and it seems that AT&T has flipped the on/off “free Wifi at Starbucks” switch a number of times. Well, today AT&T is sending out text messages to iPhone users telling them that they can now enjoy free WiFi at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks. The text message [...]

Following in the footsteps of Google’s YouTube and Hulu.com, MTV have launched a new video site, but this one focuses purely on music videos. The site can be found at MTVMusic.com and went live yesterday. Very little is known about how MTV intends to develop the site, but it is clear they want it to be [...]

Joel Podolny, current dean of the Yale School of Management, has announced he is leaving the education institute to go and work for Apple. The project he is going to work on is something new called Apple University, which he will be the vice president and dean of. Little is known about what Apple University is, [...]

It may be a down economy but, that doesn’t seem to be any reason for Apple not to impress investors once again with good numbers from their fiscal fourth quarter. Net quarterly profit was US$1.14 billion for the quarter which was an increase from the same quarter last year which saw a profit of US$904 [...]

When Apple announced the new MacBook one of the most interesting changes was the move from Intel to NVIDIA graphics. Despite Intel releasing a new integrated graphics solution for Centrino 2 (the X4500HD) Apple still went with the 9400M. This was mostly the case because NVIDIA’s product is a lot more powerful, up to five [...]