August 4, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A recent hacker attack on iPads makes it plain that users of the new Apple tablet need to be careful.
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Tags: hackers, iPad, jailbreak, MobileMe
July 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The titanic shift in publishing that’s pushed traditional books, magazines and newspapers off their pedestal in favor of electronic copy hit a crescendo this week when Amazon announced that, for the first time, e-books outsold their hardcover competition.
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Tags: Amazon, ebooks, hardover, iPad, Kindle, sales
July 21, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The financial juggernaut that is Apple continues unabated by minor blips like the iPhone 4 antennae and fears that the iPad’s phenomenal popularity might eat away at Mac sales.
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Tags: Apple, earnings, iPad, iphone, ipod, macs, third quater
June 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
All those naysayers out there who predicted the iPad would flounder won’t be happy to hear the latest sales tallies for the new Apple tablet.
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Tags: iPad, iphone, sales, Steve Jobs
June 17, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
While there may have been a few glitches in the ordering system, they didn’t seem to phase fans of the iPhone4, who bought all the units Apple and AT&T had ready for delivery on June 24.
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Tags: Apple, AT&T, availability, iphone, pre-order
June 14, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A year ago, I bought a 1TB drive for my desktop that I paid an amazing $100 for and figured I wouldn’t need more space for years to come. Today, I’m pondering a 2TB drive for the same price.
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Tags: 2TB, cost, disk, drive
June 10, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Mixing sophomoric humor and technology to make money and do something good for the world might just be the perfect marketing storm.
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Tags: case, iphone, marketing, phoneballs, testicular cancer
June 9, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The price of technology hardware bearing a stamp “Made in China” could start inching up soon as a movement among Chinese workers for better pay and working conditions begins to spread across the country.
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Tags: China, Foxconn, outsourcing, pay, suicide, technology, workers
June 3, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
With the dog days of summer upon us, it could be tough to remember that patch of extraordinary snow and ice that enveloped much of the country — including Washington, DC – last winter.
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Tags: inspector general, National Labor Relations Board, survey, telework
June 2, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Anybody who ever watched “The Wire” or read a 21st century thriller probably has a pretty good idea of how a pre-paid wireless phone works.
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Tags: burner, cell phone, cellphones, Charles E. Schumer, John Cornyn, law, legislation, senators, U.S. Senate