Apple plans to begin taking pre-orders and reservations for the iPad on Friday, March 12. The company hasn't said yet what time on Friday the pre-order program will kick off, and so far the iPad Web page is still providing the option to notify users...

Obscure Texas firm SmartPhone Technologies LLC this week filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, Research in Motion, AT&T, Insight Enterprises, LG Electronics, Motorola, Pantech Wireless, Samsung, and Sanyo, alleging each is in violation o...

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Bookseller Barnes & Noble is developing its own Nook-compatible ebook reader for the iPad, and plans to ship the app about the same time that Apple's multimedia tablet hits store shelves.

Media Lab this week announced SiteGrinder 3, which includes more than 300 new features for its web development platform that lets designers create web pages from Adobe Photoshop files. It also offers two new optional add-ons: Commerce, which builds w...

TMO columnist Ted Landau joined Chuck Joiner on the MacNotables podcast to talk about iPhone tethering, Google Voice and Apple's Visual Voicemail, and augmented reality apps.

Apple earned the top spot in a recent Consumer Reports computer tech support customer service survey. Apple managed to earn the highest rating overall, and also landed to top scores in laptop and desktop computer tech support.

Apple will open pre-orders for the iPad on Friday, so today TMO readers are talking about their iPad purchasing plans and what the company's April 3 launch will have on Apple's stock value.

Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer's managing editor, will be speaking at the Colorado Macintosh User Group meeting on Thursday, March 11, in Boulder, Colorado. Jeff will be showing off some of his favorite iPhone and iPod touch applications....

Legendary rock band Pink Floyd won a court battle on Wednesday blocking EMI from selling its songs online as individual tracks instead of complete albums. The court also ordered EMI to pay about US$60,000 in costs and will rule later on what the reco...

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SintraWorks announced the immediate availability of Metron 2.0 on Thursday. The new version of the metronome application for the iPhone and iPod touch added the ability to play rhythm patterns along with the ability to create custom beat patterns....

Apple was able to achieve dominance in the MP3 player arena by closely marrying hardware and software, a formula that it has extended to its success with the iPhone and the App Store. As the company gets ready to ship the iPad, the next phase in that...

Icarus Studios on Wednesday announced the release of the Mac version of its massively multiplayer online game Fallen Earth, offering a Beta of the software to anyone who wants to download and test it. Gamers without current Fallen Earth subscriptions...

It appears that the iPad will not support iPhone Internet tethering. How might this affect which iPad (Wi-Fi-only vs. Wi-Fi + 3G) you should buy? What is Internet tethering anyway? How does it work? And why isn't it available yet on your iPhone? For...

Stanford University has released the results of a survey of 200 students who own iPhones and found 10 percent characterized themselves as fully addicted to the device, or five on a scale of one to five, while 34 percent rated themselves as fours and...

Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which launched last June, saw its share of U.S. search traffic jump from 10.7 percent in January to 11.5 percent in February, according to comScore, while Yahoo’s share dropped from 17 percent to 16.8 percent and G...

A year after making its public debut at GDC 2009, OnLive announced at this year’s Game Developers Conference that the Mac and PC versions of its cloud gaming service will be available to the general public throughout the 48 contiguous United States...

Verizon is telling its employees that the iPad represents “an opportunity” for the company to encourage customers to buy the WiFi-enabled version of the device, pair it something like the MiFi, and use Verizon’s network, rather than AT&T’s. E...

Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor and EA DICE’s Karl Magnus Troedsson this week expressed interest in bringing their companies’ games to the Mac via Steam, which Valve is releasing for the Mac next month, along with its entire catalog of games. G...

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Finding replacement earphones with an inline microphone for your iPhone can be a frustrating process, especially since the selection can get expensive quickly. ifrogz is targeting the budget conscious buyer with its EarPollution Luxe microbud with mi...

Today TMO readers are talking about what's involved in syncing data from Android-based mobile phones with their Mac.

Dejal Systems announced the immediate availability of Tweeps 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch on Wednesday. Tweeps lets users manage their Twitter account settings as well as follow and unfollow other Twitter users.

Google Maps expanded on Tuesday to include bike route directions for the United States. According to Google, bike directions was the most requested feature by Google Maps users.

The iconic rock band Pink Floyd is suing its record label, EMI, over claims that it hasn't been properly paid royalties for songs sold through Apple's iTunes Store. Part of the band's complain stems from EMI offering individual tracks through the iTu...

SmileOnMyMac announced the immediate availability of TextExpander 3.0 for Mac Os X on Wednesday. The new version of the auto-expanding utility for abbreviations and text shortcuts added new search features for locating specific snippets along with a...

Autodesk on Tuesday unveiled at the Game Developers Conference the 2011 editions of Maya and its other 3D creation software aimed at animators, game developers, and others in creative field

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Jonathan Schwartz, who was CEO of Sun Microsystems from 2006 until last month, on Tuesday published a blog post that leads off with: “I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too.” Why? In 2003, he unveiled Project Looking Glass, a...

The Associated Press on Tuesday said it has hired Nick Ascheim, who previously ran The New York Times’ website, to oversee development of apps for the iPad and other mobile devices. The AP already offers a free app for the iPhone and it said it’s...

Hewlett-Packard has released a pair of videos touting its forthcoming Slate tablet, which it introduced in conjunction with Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Both of them tout Slate’s ability to “access the full web, not just...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has posted the full text of Apple’s previously-secretive iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request after NASA released an app. The EFF found the document so d...

If the preference is set, our desktop shows us the names of all our mounted volumes.  Lurking beneath the surface, however, some of those volumes can take on a strange set of numbered suffixes.  It isn't a problem until another piece of software,...

Google and Dish Network are teaming up to create a set-top box that will use the former’s Android operating system, but the Wall Street Journal piece announcing the development is thin on details, simply citing anonymous sources who said the new te...

Apple's Time Machine, introduced with Leopard, is a welcome tool.  It makes the process of backing up a user's boot drive painless. Recovering deleted files is similarly trivial.  However, there is one often overlooked non-feature of Time Machine,...

Apple’s recent lawsuit against handset maker HTC may have had a chilling effect on the development of so-called “iPhone killers,” according to The Wall Street Journal’s Matt Phillips, who referenced a research report from Oppenheimer analyst...

Six months after its introduction, the iTunes LP format, which offers music buyers expanded cover art, videos, lyrics, and other digital bonuses, is only available for 29 albums, a dozen of which were available at roll-out. “It’s something most p...

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Toon Boom Animation introduced Toon Boom Animate 2 on Tuesday. The new version of the professional animation application added several new tools along with the ability to directly import scanned drawing and SWF export support.

Apple's iPad will hit store shelves on April 3, and Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall thinks it will become a great recurring sales platform for publishers, broadcasters and app developers.

Valve is bringing its game lineup to the Mac, and today TMO readers are offering their take on what that means for Apple's computers as gaming machines.

U.S. cell service provider and Apple iPhone partner AT&T stepped into the Google Android world with the addition of the Motorola Backflip to its mobile phone lineup.

FileMaker announced the immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 11 on Tuesday. The new version of the relational database application added a long list of features such as new chart styles and new dynamic reports.

Waterfield Designs introduced its new Smart Case and Slip Case for Apple's iPad on Tuesday. The cases are available in several colors and are designed to fit in Waterfield's Muzetto metro bag.

The Mac Observer's own Bryan Chaffin will be speaking at the CapMac Macintosh User Group meeting on Tuesday, March 9, in Austin, Texas. He'll be sharing his thoughts on the upcoming release of Apple's iPad, Macworld Expo, and the online news world...

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Macgamestore.com on Monday announced that it has added Murder, She Wrote to the Mac games available on its site. Players assume the role of murder mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher as she navigates five new cases, complete with hidden objects to find...

The Macworld All Star Band plays once a year at the Cirque du Mac party during Macworld Expo, and MacVoicesTV caught the performance on video. The video of the band in action is available at the MacVoicesTV Web site.

John and Dave back this week, and John's done a LOT of upgrades on his end. There are a ton of tips to share, too. Don't miss it!

Tale of Tales’ indie title The Graveyard and THQ’s action puzzler de Blob: Revolution led off the slate of new games at the App Store on Monday.

Last week, Senator Richard Durbin rebuked Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Facebook, Twitter, and McAfee for declining to send representatives to the second session of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Human Rights and the Law, which supports free commer...

In Apple’s recently-filed lawsuit against HTC, patent filings will play a large role in how the legal proceedings play out. By that metric, the company is “heavily armed,” according to Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt, with 3,013 patents in its...

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster on Monday released a report in which he looked at recent figures from research firm NPD and noted: "We expect the strong year-over-year growth in NPD data that we saw in January to continue in the month of February....

Ending speculation that reached a fevered pitch on Monday, Valve confirmed that it will bring Steam, as well as its library of games, to the Mac next month. “The Mac represents a great opportunity,” Valve co-founder Gabe Newell told Wired ahead o...

Portal 2, the sequel to the acclaimed first-person shooter included in Valve’s Orange Box collection, is headed to Mac, PC, and Xbox 360 this fall; the news was confirmed by scans from the April 2010 issue of Game Informer magazine.

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