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Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer’s decision to warn financial analysts Monday that Apple’s fourth-quarter gross margins will be negatively impacted by a “product transition” should be enough to get the rumor wheels turning: of course, it doesn’t take all that much. The remark came within yet another Apple’s earnings report that produced stellar numbers [...]

A team of computer scientists has published source code that can in some circumstances bypass encryption used in Microsoft’s BitLocker and Apple’s FileVault and be used to view the contents of supposedly secure files. We reported in February on their research, which describes how the contents of a computer’s memory could be dumped to a hard [...]

There is a time for translucency, and there is also a time for transparency. The under promise and overachieve policy set in place at Microsoft for the Windows and Office projects by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group has impacted both Windows 7 and Office 14. Microsoft is essentially ensuring [...]

Google on Tuesday plans to unveil an online 3D social arena called Lively, the Internet giant’s take on Second Life. But Google wants it to be part of your first life. Second Life requires users to download and install a separate “client” software package that taps into the online world. Lively also requires a download and [...]

Google has always been in the habit of lending a helping hand to programmers in distress. This time around, the Code Search Team has introduced six new features to come in handy to the developers who work with such large bases of code that searching through them becomes an ordeal. The first feature that Dmitry Barashev [...]

Now that Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are available to end users, the focus is bound to shift on Microsoft. The Redmond company has been cooking Internet Explorer 8 for over a year now, and is approximately one month away from releasing the second Beta build to the public. Since Beta 1 was set up [...]

The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday–an entire week before the device goes on sale. Frankly, one shouldn’t encourage such behavior by actually covering it. But if I were in Manhattan–instead of Austin, Texas–I, too, would have interviewed them in person by now. The queue outside of Apple’s Fifth Avenue store, covered first [...]