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Intel launches Ivy Bridge architecture, includes 3D transistors in hardware

The day you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Or at least one of them. Because really good health-related news or the birth of a new child tends to rank up there as well. Per MacNN, Intel has officially launched the first wave of its Ivy Bridge processors with a new tri-gate transistor technology, touting the […]

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Rumor: Apple to discontinue 17-inch MacBook Pro model

In addition to Microsoft pulling its Office 2011 SP2 update, here’s your other piece of potential bad news for the day: Per AppleInsider, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities predicted on Monday that Apple is “likely to stop making” the 17-inch MacBook Pro this year. He cited falling shipments with the company’s top-of-the-line notebook as […]

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Microsoft pulls Office 2011 Service Pack 2 update, offers apology and workaround for Outlook database corruption bug

Well, this is awkward. A little over a week after releasing an update to its Office 2011 for Mac, Microsoft has stopped pushing out auto-updates for Service Pack 2 over a flaw that corrupts identity databases in the company’s Outlook mail client. The announcement was made on Friday through the company’s Office blog, and notifies […]