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And Now the iPhone Nano Rumors Return
Yesterday brought speculation that the iPod Classic was either dead or due for a refresh. Now, Bloomberg dusts off another classic Apple rumor: The iPhone Nano is coming. Okay, Bloomberg doesn’t...
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iPhone Nano Rumor Becomes Journalistic Slapfight
The general cycle of Apple rumors tends to be pretty predictable. One mainstream publication breaks a story, and over time, the other big publications follow with slight variations on the same rumor,...
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Is Motorola Building a Web-Based OS? It Already Did.
From the original Droid to the brand-new Atrix, Motorola’s been all about Android over the last year and a half. But if Thomas Claburn’s anonymous source is correct, that may eventually change. In a...
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Saying Apple Will Never Do Something: Always Dangerous
For years, there’s been a persistent, as-yet-unrealized rumor that Apple will start making HDTVs. Received wisdom, however, has generally argued that it’s not going to happen. TVs are too commoditized;...
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From the Vault: A Consumer Guide to Apple Rumors
With just over a week left to go until Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference, the rumors are going to come fast and furious. Many will likely be spurious; some stand a chance at being on. And it’s...
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Apple Rumors: The More the Murkier!
Apple rumors, in case you hadn’t noticed, are everywhere. There are tons of them–especially on future iPhones and iPads. And if you don’t like a particular one, wait a day or two–another one will come...
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Did Case-Mate Just Reveal The iPhone 5 Design?
What’s a day without an iPhone 5 rumor? What your looking at here is one of the images of apparent iPhone 5 cases that was posted to accessory maker Case-Mate’s site briefly on Thursday before being...
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Goodbye, iPod Classic and Shuffle?
People have been expecting Apple to kill the iPad Classic–the last model recognizable as a direct descendant of the original 2001 iPod–for years. Now TUAW is reporting that Apple may discontinue it,...
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Your Last Chance to Read, Rate, and Spread Rumors About the Next iPhone
Twelve hours from now, someone–most likely new Apple CEO Tim Cook–will be standing on a stage in Cupertino, well into the company’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event. Normally at this point, it feels like we...
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The iPhone 5: Jobs’ Last Product?
Brooke Crothers of Cnet is reporting that analyst Ashok Kumar says that the iPhone 5 that some people thought Apple would announce this month–the thinner one with a bigger screen–is real, and will be...
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TechReads for July 16, 2014
Why that Comcast rep wouldn’t let Ryan and Veronica just cancel. (Adrianne Jeffries/The Verge) Because doing so would cost him money. Fox tried to buy Time Warner. (Andrew Ross Sorkin/Michael De La...
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The New Features in Jawbone’s Up App Are All About Eating
Thanks to wearable fitness gadgets such as Jawbone’s Up and Up24 wristbands, it’s now very easy to get some sense of how many calories you’re burning as you go about your everyday activities. But...
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Microsoft to reorg, cut up to 18,000 jobs. (Satya Nadella/Microsoft)
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How to Animate Your Dragon
A DreamWorks Animation artist works on How to Train Your Dragon 2 using Premo Mr. Peabody and Sherman, the computer-animated movie which DreamWorks Animation released in March is–of course–the tale of...
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A Celebration of James Garner’s Polaroid Commercials
They weren’t the best thing he ever did, or the one which we’ll cherish the most. But with the sad news of the passing of James Garner, it’s worth pausing to remember the commercials he did in the late...
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I’m Going to Want a Car With Built-In LTE…Eventually
Buick owners enjoying their car’s built-in LTE in a photo provided by GM Last week, General Motors invited me to a press event at which it showed off some new Buicks. Normally, such events involve...
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RIP, Jim Frederick
Jim Frederick, the first editor I had during my time as a tech writer for TIME, died unexpectedly on Thursday night. He was only 42, and I’m still in shock. The loss would be incalculable no matter...
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Apple University revealed. (Brian X. Chen/NYTimes) Apple’s in-house training program sounds very, very Apple-esque.
View ArticleI’m Over at Fast Company. Join Me, Won’t You?
Just a quick reminder: I’m now happily ensconced in my new gig as technology editor for Fast Company. That means that the vast majority of my tech writing will appear on FastCompany.com. To see what...
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That Time I Interviewed Click and Clack
Back in the summer of 1997, I got my one and only assignment for a magazine called The Web, back when it seemed like it made sense to publish reviews and profiles relating to websites on dead trees. It...
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