Month: March 2013

Apple offers the factory-refurbished 4.5-lb. Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 Quad 2.6GHz 15″ Widescreen Notebook with Retina Display, model no. MC976LL/A, for $2,119 with free shipping. That’s $260 under our January mention of this refurb and the lowest total price we’ve seen for this model. (It’s currently $210 less than […] Read the original post…

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left to cut to meet its layoff target. Read the original post by ITworld

One of the dumbest memes in recent history is “Apple is closed. Google is open. Apple deserves to lose.” Sadly, the New Yorker of all places chose to revive this particular brand of dumb, with full-on Apple vs. Google folly. John Gruber of Daring Fireball has gone through the entire […] Read the original post…

Earlier this week, I compared the player screens of 6 popular iPhone podcast apps, and since fair-is-fair, now it’s the iPad’s turn. Like with the 18 iPad weather apps and 9 iPad Twitter apps, not all iPhone podcasting apps have versions or interfaces for the iPad. However, in this case […] Read the original post…

newegg offers the OCZ Vector 128GB Serial ATA 6Gb/s 2.5″ Internal SSD, model no. VTR1-25SAT3-128G, for $129.99 with free shipping ($1.02/GB). That’s the lowest total price we could find by $22. It features read speeds of up to 550MB/s and write speeds of up to 400MB/s. Update: Pay using V.me […] Read the original post…

newegg offers the OCZ Vector 128GB Serial ATA 6Gb/s 2.5″ Internal SSD (pictured), model no. VTR1-25SAT3-128G, for $129.99 with free shipping ($1.02/GB). (Amazon sells it for the same price.) That’s the lowest total price we could find by $22. It features read speeds of up to 550MB/s and write speeds […] Read the original post…

Gather round, kids, and let me tell you about the days when AT&T and T-Mobile were extremely close to merging. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

Judge Lucy Kho, the federal judge which presided over Apple vs. Samsung, has today vacated a little more than $450,514,650 from the over $1 billion judgement awarded to Apple at the end of that trial. Kho determined that the jury had made an error in calculating the damages owed from […] Read the original post…

Your iPhone is a great place to store receipts and there are lots of apps in the App Store that offer this feature. Whether you need to keep track of business expenses to turn in to your employer, want to keep track of receipts as a self employed individual, or […] Read the original post…

After Web browsers Word is the most-used app on the planet; it’s still the platinum standard in word processing. Nothing else even comes close. Read the original post by james_melzer@sra.com

As one of its daily deals, Groupon cuts up to 68% off a selection of Picaboo Classic Custom Hardcover Photo Books, as listed below. Each is at the lowest total price we could find for any similar custom hardcover photo books elsewhere. Shipping starts at $7.99. The offer must be […] Read the original post…

Software on the BlackBerry Z10—said to be selling well around the world, but still unavailable in the United States—has already been updated. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks