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The Apple Core: The best Bluetooth headset yet

All this chatter about Apple’s admission of stock options backdating and CFO Anderson’s resulting resignation is kind of lame coverage for a weekend so I instead wanted to focus on something cooler: bluetooth gadgets. If your mobile phone has Bluetooth then you owe it to yourself to grab a really nice Bluetooth headset (you are […]

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The Apple Core: Sony recalls notebook batteries

CNet News.com’s Candace Lombardi reports that Sony is planning to announce a massive battery recall. Sony manufactures the rechargeable Lithium Ion batteries cells found in almost every major notebook computer sold today. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): The recall will encompass all possibly defective batteries, including those previously announced by manufacturers for […]

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The Apple Core: MacBook RAM grease

This picture cropped up from a MacBook user claiming that it’s thermal grease that leaked onto his RAM strips. …the thermal grease applied to the internal components has leached into the RAM slots on my motherboard and have ‘soiled’ the DIMM’s with thermal grease. Apple notebook users get anxious over pictures like this because of […]

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The Apple Core: How HP is different than Apple

On 23 January, 2006 CNet reporters Dawn Kawamoto and Tom Krazit published a story (“HP outlines long-term strategy”) that detailed HP’s plans to improve the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, its commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies. The story was attributed to “a source with the company.” The Smoking […]

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The Apple Core: MacBook WiFi hacker cancels talk

Instead of a planned presentation WiFi hacker Johnny Ellch delivered only a prepared statement at ToorCon, San Diego’s annual security conference on Saturday. I reported last week that Maynor and Ellch were scheduled to speak at ToorCon, where the inflammatory duo’s “complete story” of their infamous MacBook WiFi hack was to be told. The talk […]