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Apple
Judge cites Jobs’ ‘pay more’ remarks over e-books case
A federal judge cited the confident voice of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs this week as she refused to dismiss lawsuits alleging the company and various publishers conspired to drive up the price of electronic books.US District…
Apple to slim down, power up MacBooks
Apple is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel, people with knowledge of the plans say.The MacBook Pro machines, to be unveiled at Apple’s annual developers conference starting…
Steve Wozniak: Lessons for NZ from Apple co-founder
Mac Planet: New MacBook Pro, anyone?
Macs were once actually made in California, although I think the first one I ever bought, in 1989, was assembled in Ireland, where Apple used to have a factory. The next one was, I think, assembled in Malaysia. Now, of course, Apple…
InfoTech
Tension sought for Jobs film
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin hasn’t yet figured out how to put the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on the silver screen, but he is certain it’s not going to be a straightforward biography.
Keeping your dirty laundry offline
We’ve all been witness to it, a relationship that you realise is going to end before the individuals themselves seem to know.
Jail for discriminatory tweets
The singular vision of Peter Thiel
In JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth fantasy, the Valar are deities who chose to enter the world they created, to give it order and shape its development. It’s probably more coincidence than d
Mobile Phones
Steve Wozniak: Lessons for NZ from Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak, or Woz, teamed up with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne to found Apple Computer in 1976.Wozniak is bringing his Woz Live tour to New Zealand, hosting an event in Auckland on
Telecom trials 4G mobile tech ahead of spectrum auction
Telecom, which shed a heavy regulatory burden when it carved out its network unit Chorus last year, will trial new mobile technology to cash in on the government’s plan to sell high-frequency spectrum when it switches off the analogue…
The joy of txt: 20 years of SMS
Government acts on cyber-bullying
The Government says it will fast-track a Law Commission report looking at ways of reducing the harm caused by cyber-bullying.Justice Minister Judith Collins said she had asked the commission to make the report a priority.It would…
Science
“Darwin’s Devices”: Here come the robot fish
A scientist uses aquatic automatons to plumb the mysteries of evolution, intelligence and the future
“Turing’s Cathedral”: Gods of the digital universe
In early 1947, Jack Rosenberg, a bored researcher in Princeton University’s Physics Department, heard about an intriguing new job opportunity. As he told George Dyson, the author of “Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe:” “I was informed that at the Institute for Advanced Study, a famous scientist was looking for an engineer to develop an electronic machine of a sort no one but he understood.”
That “famous scientist” was a Hungarian émigré mathematician called John von Neumann, and the electronic machine he was developing at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was, of course, the computer, the central product of today’s networked society. And it’s this story, of von Neumann’s attempt to assemble a team of the world’s most brilliant 20th-century scientists at IAS, that forms the central narrative in this sparkling new book by one of America’s most talented historians of technology.
What can primates feel?
New chairwoman for $53m Marsden Fund
Professor Juliet Gerrard has been appointed the new chairwoman of the Marsden Fund Council.
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Web 2.0
Flashback the largest Mac malware threat yet, experts say
Congratulations, Apple. The Mac is now popular enough to attract major attent…
Web tool checks if your Mac is Flashback-free
Have you been put off by the work required to find out if your machine is one…
Mac Flashback malware: What it is and how to get rid of it (FAQ)
Apple patent hints at wireless charging for boxed gadgets
A new patent application from Apple paints a picture of a future filled with …
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