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The rumors about what Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs might unveil in his keynote speech…

Whoomp! Earbud Enhancers are foam tips that provide a custom fit to Apple’s earbuds, improve bass response and seal out noise, according to the manufacturer.

Just two days after Intuit Inc. said it had finally come up with a permanent patch for a bug in QuickBooks on the Mac that erased files from users’ hard drives, the company acknowledged it has not completely fixed the flaw.

Apple has enjoyed one of the most spectacular and innovative runs in U.S. business history…

If criminals were to target unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas like Chicago or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University.

Researchers at security gateway vendor Fortinet have uncovered an adware-distribution scheme being carried out on the Facebook social networking site considered to be the first attack propagated on the wildly popular online portal.

Today I’m taking a look at my 20 favorite (that’s right, 20) third-party iPhone and iPod touch apps

Popular Mechanics takes a stab at what Macworld 2008 might have in store for us.

I go to trade shows with a mission based on my view of what matters, which oft times yet entirely by chance fails…

Dotnaught writes with word of an anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple late last month. Information Week has the story, a suit charging the company with maintaining an illegal monopoly on the digital music market. “The complaint goes beyond software licensing politics and charges Apple with deliberately designing its iPod hardware to be incompatible with WMA. One of the third-party components in iPods, the Portal Player System-On-A-Chip, supports WMA, according to the complaint. ‘Apple, however, deliberately designed the iPod’s software so that it would only play a single protected digital format, Apple’s FairPlay-modified AAC format,’ the complaint states. ‘Deliberately disabling a desirable feature of a computer product is known as crippling a product, and software that does this is known as crippleware.'”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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A recently granted patent reveals Apple’s plans to create a docking station for an as-yet unidentified ultramobile computer.

Hitachi said it’s winding down production of 1.0 and 1.8-inch hard drives, yielding to competition from Toshiba and Samsung.

An antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple on Dec. 31 charges the company with maintaining an illegal monopoly…

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