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Sirius Satellite Radio expects to offer a live television service in cars by late 2007, and deals with content providers may be set as early as January, CEO Mel Karmazin said Thursday. In an interview at the Reuters Media Summit in New York, Karmazin said the mobile video, likely to be available in 2008 model …
You never know when a satellite might be flying by ready to take a picture of your naked body. Here are some naked sunbathers busted by Google Earth.
Vista's speech recognition software can be "trained" to understand a user's voice, activate commands in any Windows application, and to enable voice dictation. It also supports multiple languages. Sounds great right? Well maybe not. What until you see this video of Vista's speech recognition in action.
Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista will include anti-piracy tech to cripple pirated copies.
Purchased iTunes files can only be authorized on 5 computers at a time. But don't worry, there's an easy way to deauthorize computers on iTunes.
Video of Steve Jobs' 2006 keynote presentation at Apple's WWDC.
Many programs that convert audio files into different formats are pretty complicated and usually cost money. But not iTunes. iTunes is simple, fast and best of all... free. Here's how to convert audio files using iTunes.
Looking for a way to better protect yourself from laptop thieves? A company called Orbicule says they have a new piece of software that acts as a LoJack for laptops.
Have you ever reinstalled your Macintosh operating system just to hear the music? Hopefully not, but if you've ever found yourself grooving to the soundtrack while installing OS X and wanted to know what you were listening to... then you are in luck.
Tired of all the drama and entertainment shows offered on iTunes? Feel like iTunes isn’t informative enough? NBC and Apple apparently feel the same way. Apple has officially made NBC the first news organization to offer its content in the iTunes Store. Previous news related offerings from other networks were only available as Podcasts. As …
A fatal flaw has been discovered with Apple's web browser, Safari, where a simple image can crash the app. It's another Safari Image of Doom.
In this video clip from 1991, Steve Jobs shows off Release 3 of the NeXTSTEP operating system. The operating system was for his company NeXT Computer, which he started after being forced out of Apple in 1985.
Google loves April Fools Day jokes. They always have a treat for us every year. Today, if you look up Area 51 on Google Earth, you will see some strange creatures on the roof of one of the hangers. Just Launch Google Earth, search for “Area 51.” Move a little west and you will find …
Apple's new iPod volume limit feature will be music to parents ears. It limits the maximum volume setting to help prevent hearing loss.
Through a combination of PSPbochs (x86 emulator for PSP) and vMac (680x0 emulator for x86), an Internet user named Neisha got Mac OS System 7 running on a Sony PSP!
"The new version of Microsoft Windows, called Vista, has slipped again. It was originally going to ship in 2003. Then 2005. Then 2006. Now in early 2007. I'm not surprised, having seen a demo of Microsoft's new programs at an "event" for tech buyers in New York last week."
According to an article on MacRumors, Mac OS X Leopard, the next version of OS X may include virtualization software, code-named Chameleon, that will allow Macs to run more than one operating system at the SAME TIME! While Booting Windows XP on Intel Macs is now possible thanks to two hackers named “narf2006” and “blanka”, …
