When makers of smart phones increased their efforts to catch the iPhone, the Cupertino company maintained its innovation edge. And when CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs stepped aside for almost six months for what turned out to be a liver transplant, Apple barely skipped a beat. It was that kind of year for Apple. Read [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Can you actually play Windows games on Linux? That’s what AnandTech seeks to find out. Talk about opening a can of worms! Read more…
A computer scientist publishes details of the secret code used to encrypt the majority of mobile phone conversations. Read more…
Nokia ramps up its legal fight against Apple, claiming that almost all of its products infringe its patents. Read more…
Augmented reality (AR) began to slowly roll out on mobiles in 2009 but it is set to explode next year, experts say. Read more…
Consumer outrage about AT&T’s 3G service for iPhones is boiling over, but the dropped calls and spotty service reflect a greater lack of foresight in the wireless industry. Read more…
Mozilla won’t make a 2009 deadline for releasing Firefox 3.6 and is giving itself more time to complete a major update, version 4.0. Read more…
Gadget lovers are waiting with bated breath for the much-anticipated unveiling of the Apple tablet, but don’t expect it to take the world by storm the way the iPod and iPhone did. Read more…
Here are the 9 Best Space Science Stories of 2009. Read more…
Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble caught this glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the [...]