Reuters: iPhone 5 production in July, ships in September
Since first announcing the iPhone in 2007 Apple has always released a new version of the popular smartphone in June each year. Recent rumors suggested that wouldn't be the case in 2011, though, and now a fresh report from Reuters citing "three people with direct knowledge of the company's supply... 
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Intel posts record revenue of $12.8 billion, 29% profit boost
Intel has managed to pull yet another blockbuster quarter, with net income of $3.2 billion, up 29 percent over the same period last year, on revenue of $12.8 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year. The results surprised many investors, as well as Intel executives, who had projected more modest numbers after... Read More ...
Acer splits in two, cuts sales forecast
Acer has lowered its second quarter sales forecast by 10% instead of expecting figures to remain consistent with the January to March period, when it shipped 10.9 million computers. The first quarter of 2011 was rough too, marking a 12% drop from the same period in 2010. The company blamed... Read More ...
Dell launches new Alienware M11x, M14x and M18x laptops
As expected, Dell has unveiled three Sandy Bridge-powered Alienware gaming notebooks: the M11x, M14x and M18x. Starting at $999, the 11.6-inch M11x R3 weighs less than 4.5lbs in its lightest configuration and carries a 1.4GHz Intel Core i5-2537M or 2.6GHz Core i7-2617M, Nvidia GeForce 500-series graphics (the GT 540M and/or... Read More ...
LibreOffice will remain separate from OpenOffice
It appears that LibreOffice and OpenOffice will remain separate. Currently, there is no plan to merge the two projects back together, and LibreOffice will not be renamed a fourth time, according to a vague statement by The Document Foundation:
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$30 movie rentals coming to DirecTV later this week
As expected, DirecTV has announced Home Premiere, a new rental services for its 6 million HD DVR customers. Home Premiere offers movies for rent about 60 days after their theatrical release at a price of $30. The premium VOD window is only two weeks, and the the satellite TV firm... Read More ...
Dish takes over 500 Blockbuster locations
Dish Network, Blockbuster's new parent company, has agreed to take on leases for about 500 Blockbuster stores, according to papers filed with the US Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York. Blockbuster has closed numerous stores in the last year or so and now operates about 1,700 across the US,...
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Tuesday tech deals: Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Blu-ray $20
Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Blu-ray for $20 + $5 s&h iNetVideo.com offers the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Blu-ray for $19.99. With $4.95 for shipping, that's $5 under a deal from last week and the lowest total price we've seen. It's a current price low by... Read More ...
Sprint to pay $1 billion to use Clearwire's 4G network through 2012
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire today announced an amendment to their long-term agreement that establishes new wholesale pricing terms and provides Clearwire a minimum of $1.025 billion from Sprint to be paid during 2011 and 2012 for 4G wholesale services. The minimum usage commitments are as follows: $300 million in 2011,... Read More ...
Google launches Map Maker in the US
Google today launched Google Map Maker, a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world, in the US. The feature has been available internationally for quite some time, but now the search giant is making it available stateside as well.
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Google puts $100 million into world's largest wind power farm
Continuing with its investments in clean power Google has announced it is pumping $100 million into the construction of the world's largest wind farm. Spanning over 30 square miles in Arlington, Oregon, the Shepherds Flat wind farm is expected to cost $2 billion to build and should produce 845 megawatts... Read More ...
Seagate agrees to buy Samsung's HDD unit in $1.4 billion deal
It's official: Samsung Electronics will sell its hard disk drive business to U.S.-based Seagate Technology, in a move that will help the company focus on more profitable areas such as next-generation displays, NAND chips and solar cells. As part of the 'broad strategic alignment' announced this morning, Samsung will get... Read More ...
PDF redaction fail: UK's nuclear submarine secrets unveiled
Organizations that decided to publish an internal document to the public need to first delete or black out any personal, confidential, or actionable information. The British Ministry of Defence, which published a PDF document online, tried to do so, but ended up unintentionally revealing information about nuclear submarine security.
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Apple Mac OS X Lion: A Preview of What's to Come
Considering that OS X's last major release, Snow Leopard, was not focused on new end-user features, Mac OS X Lion appears to be a more significant release in terms of functionality, user interface and workflow improvements. We've compiled a list with several of the changes and new features disclosed so far.
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Freebie Notes 3.44
Great little program for users who just want sticky notes with an alarm timer.
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