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Don't bother buying Adobe Photoshop CS6 for your 32-bit Mac
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Look, how many bits you choose to process in the privacy of your own home is entirely your business, but don't expect the latest Photoshop to work on anything less than a 64-bit multi-core Mac running a minimum of Snow Leopard. Adobe's update brings a compute-heavy 'Mercury Graphics Engine'...
Huawei Mercury for Cricket gains unlimited Muve Music service, challenges aural appetites
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Consider it a bit of a rebirth. Cricket's premiere smartphone, the Huawei Mercury -- known elsewhere as the Honor -- has just taken on a new life as a member of the carrier's Muve Music lineup. Beginning today, current owners may add the unlimited music subscription service to their...
Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere
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Startup accelerators continue to grow in popularity. There are now more than 200 around the world attracting twice as many applicants as they did just two years ago. But there’s a dirty little secet: A lot of accelerators are just spinning their wheels. Last year, Aziz Gilani, a director...
Retired Boeing 737 repurposed as garage-kept flight simulator (video)
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A fresh concept it's not, but a fresh look? Yeah, we'll take that. California resident, air traffic controller, pilot and all-around gentleman James Price has converted the actual nose of a 1969 Boeing 737 into his own personal flight simulator. According to the man himself, he "gutted" the bird,...
TED – finally – releases official Android app, offers 1,200+ amazing talks free of charge
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It’s hard not to admire TED‘s extensive quality video library (now more than 1,200 talks strong). It’s getting even harder to steer clear of the many marvelous videos in there – ideas worth spreading indeed. This morning, TED released an official Android app in the Google Play Store and the...
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Now Available, Creative Cloud to Follow on May 11
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Two weeks ago, Adobe officially unveiled its new Creative Suite 6 (CS6) bundles of design applications, as well as its new Creative Cloud subscription service offering access to the software and other cloud services for integrating access across desktop and mobile devices. Adobe had announced that the new products would...
Thunderbolt to Firewire cable finally available at the Apple Store
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Announced at WWDC and the only way to get Firewire peripherals working with the new Retina Display MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs (besides a Thunderbolt Display), the new Thunderbolt to Firewire cable is now available at the Apple Store online. (Thanks SchulMarm!) Related articles Apple starts shipping slightly tweaked Thunderbolt Display...
A MESSENGER to Mercury reveals a strange little planet
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Mercury is the smallest of the planets, and despite being known from antiquity, due to its proximity to the Sun, it has proven hard to study. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is designed to fill in many of the gaps in our knowledge of...
OWC's Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD is Mac bootable, strictly neutral
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If you've ever tried to jam a regular SSD into your Mac, then you'll know that many off-the-shelf drives feel like they're tailored and tested for, ahem, someone else. Not so with OWC's Mercury Accelsior, which claims to be the only Mac bootable and Mac supported PCIe SSD on...
Google may face fine over Safari privacy bypass
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The FTC is considering sanctions against the Web giant for sidestepping user privacy settings in Apple's Safari Web browser, the San Jose Mercury News reports. [Read more]...
NimbleCommerce Revamps Daily Deals For MediaNews Group
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Startup NimbleCommerce wants to become the daily deal platform for media companies (often, but not always, the traditional ones that are struggling to make money online), and today it’s announcing a big customer — Digital First Media, which manages the MediaNews Group (the second largest newspaper chain in the United...
Freddie Mercury returns to the stage (sort of)
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Hologram-like optical illusion will bring the legendary Queen frontman back for a belated encore tonight in London. [Read more]...
Adobe unveils CS6 and subscription-based Creative Cloud service
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Adobe's biggest day of 2012? Go ahead, don't be afraid to call it what it (probably) is. For starters, the outfit is introducing Creative Suite 6 to the world in formal fashion, with 14 applications either unveiled or refreshed. Photoshop CS6 is graduating from beta -- seeing an update...
Apple working on 21,468 square-foot cafeteria in Cupertino, wants employees' chatter to be safe
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How do you keep your employees chit chat from spilling the beans on your next one more thing? You force the beans to be served in an employee-only 21,468 square-foot cafeteria -- that's how. According to Mercury News, Apple just got the go-ahead from the Cupertino Planning Commission on...
Hands-on: Yahoo offers sync and search features in new Axis Web browser
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Yahoo is aiming to get its foot into the browser market with a new product called Axis that launched this evening. The purpose of Axis is to add an extra layer to the user’s Web browsing experience, with interactive search capabilities and cross-device synchronization. On the desktop, Axis is implemented...
Acer breeds LEDs with lasers, new hybrid projector is born
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Acer usually graces our pages for its pico projector range, but the company's taken a leaf out of the high-end book for its latest non-portable model, the K750 LED-laser hybrid. The world's first combo projector spits out 1080p, just as you would expect, at a contrast ratio of up...
ViewSonic outs 27-inch VX2703mh-LED monitor with 1080p, SRS Premium Sound
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Some would say monitors aren't anywhere nearly as exciting as something like, say, a shiny new Galaxy S III or Google's novel slate, the popularly priced Nexus 7 -- but, you know, sometimes you just need to get some actual work done. And for those of you who are...
Meet Us in St. Louis on May 3
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Last November, ReadWriteWeb held several meetups at various cities around the world, as recounted here. Our midwest staff enjoyed doing it so much that we decided to hold another one May 3. You are all invited to attend, just let us know you are coming. The meetup will be...
Apple building off-campus cafeteria to keep competitors from overhearing employees
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Click to view slideshow. Apple is planning to build a new off-campus restaurant and recreation facility for employees to provide a place for discussion “without fear of competition sort of overhearing their conversations.” Mercury News reported today a planning request for the building has been approved by the Cupertino Planning Commission (via TNW)....
Struck by a smooth criminal: hackers lift unreleased Michael Jackson songs
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Hackers got their hands on a number of unreleased Michael Jackson songs after attacking the Sony Music archive. Sony confirmed the hack to the BBC Monday, though would not detail which or how many of the tracks were taken in the attack. The hack was discovered some weeks after the...
OWC Mercury Accelsior PCI-SSD benchmarked (spoiler: it’s >700MB/sec faasst)
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For those of us still with pre-Thunderbolt Mac Pros or Xserves (or Hackintoshes), there aren’t a lot of inexpensive choices for getting super fast data access onto our machines. Sure you can buy a SATA 3 hard drive like my fav Samsung 830 series, but the built in SATA...
AT&T's Eco-rating makes in-store debut alongside Pantech Renue
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In February, at Mobile World Congress, AT&T announced a new program that would rate its various devices on their environmental-friendliness. Now that system is finally getting its in-store debut alongside the impressively green Pantech Renue. The Eco-ratings, which grade devices based on their use of recycled materials and toxic...
Runcore adds another SSD upgrade option to MacBook Air owners
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If you find fault with the OWC’s Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G MacBook Air SSDs, there is now another MacBook Air SSD upgrade option. Runcore announced this week that it would offer its own SSD upgrade option; the RunCore Rocket Air SSD. We’re hoping to get a test unit and have a review...
NASA celebrates 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s flight with gorgeous interactive site
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Today is the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s historic Mercury flight that saw the first American to orbit the Earth. The entire “Friendship 7″ flight took 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds and played a huge role in NASA’s mission to be the world’s leader in space flight. It’s...
OWC's Aurora Envoy bundles give MacBook Airs a storage upgrade, repurpose old drives
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If you’re looking to swap out your 2010 or 2011 MacBook Air’s SSD for something bigger and faster, but still want to make the most of your old drive, OWC is offering some new bundles that could be what you're looking for. If you buy any of the company’s...
First Mac Bootable PCI SSD now available from OWC
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OWC has released the first Mac bootable PCI SSD card, called the Mercury Accelsior. The Accelsior features dual SandForce SF-228X controllers and a choice between a 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, or 960GB capacity. AnandTech explains the technical aspects best: The actual design is pretty interesting. OWC has opted to build...
Huawei Ascend Q hands-on (video)
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Huawei's taken to the Taste of Chicago event in Chicago to introduce its fresh pair of myTouch phones to the world, but it also had another gem at its booth: the Huawei M660, also known as the Ascend Q. An upcoming smartphone that's poised to hit the US in...
Some History
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Folks often ask me "how have you been able to make comments work so well on your blog?" It is not any one thing, it is a bunch of them. But one of them was the decision to have a "bouncer." Back in the early days, when we were using...
First Look: Photoshop CS6 Beta Is Dark, Swift, and Content Aware
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Under-the-hood CS6 improvements promise to protect long hours of labor-intensive operations. These include Background Save and Auto Recovery, Preset Migration and Sharing, and the new Mercury Graphics Engine....
Report: FTC to Fine Google Over Safari Bypass Within Next 30 Days
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Following a small FCC fine over Google delaying its Street View Wi-Fi investigation, the FTC is likely to order Google to pay a “sizable” fine in the next month for bypassing the Safari browser’s privacy settings to install cookies, the Mercury News reported. The Wall Street Journal, which exposed the...
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