Apple founding papers sold at auction for £1m
They may be just pieces of paper, but these sheets formed the foundation of one of the world's most successful companies.
The documents, signed by co-founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976, sold at Sotheby's for $1,594,500 (£1.03m).
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Alienware Aurora gaming PC is a six-core monster
A refreshed Alienware Aurora gaming PC is beaming down to Earth, blowing our tiny meat-shaped minds with a stack of hardware so advanced it belongs in Cyberdyne's research facility.
The fearsome rig comes packing Intel's Core i7-3000 six-core processors, the fastest of which is the Core i7-3960X, which has 15MB of cache memory and is overclocked up to 4.2GHz. Continue reading...
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Apple Mac App Store serves up 100 million downloads
It may be just under a year old, but Apple's Mac App Store has already hit the 100 million downloads mark.
The Mac App Store launched in January of this year, to go hand in hand with the App Store for the iPhone and iPad. It may be nowhere near the dizzying heights of nearly 20 billion downloads its mobile counterpart the iOS App Store is enjoying, but we reckon 100 million in under a year since launch is pretty good going. Continue reading...
'Mayor of Silicon Valley' Robert Noyce gets Google doodle
Robert Norton Noyce, or Bob as he was known, has been honoured with a Google doodle on what would've been his 84th birthday. And it seems very fitting, considering his tech achievements. Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, and then Intel in 1968.
His partner in founding Intel was Gordon Moore, and Noyce initially wanted to call the company Moore Noyce, but decided otherwise because he thought it'd sound like "more noise". Continue reading...
Mac OS X trojan uses your Mac to mint Bitcoins for hackers
Mac owners should be wary of online pirates trying to steal their digital gold -- a new OS X trojan called DevilRobber has been spotted out on the high seas of the Web.
As well as the usual nasty tricks you would expect from malware, like nicking all your personal details, DevilRobber hijacks your video card to generate Bitcoins, a type of virtual currency with its own exchange rate. Continue reading...
Apple Mac Pro to be retired?
Apple may ditch the Mac Pro. Like a worn-out salaryman reaching the end of his career, Apple's high-end desktop powerhouse could be quietly retired with a gold watch and a half-hearted handshake to see it into retirement.
Apple bosses are undecided about the Mac Pro's future, according to AppleInsider. In a telling sign of the way Apple has changed over the years, Apple's desktop computers now make up just a fraction of Apple's revenues: the iTunes store makes nearly as much as desktop computers, while the company sells three times as many MacBook laptops, nine times as many iPads and 13 times as many iPhones. Continue reading...
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Steve Jobs 'admired' Mark Zuckerberg
The revelations from Jobs' biography continue. Not only did he work on an Apple TV set and think the iPhone 4's antenna problems were part of a conspiracy by Google and Motorola, he also singled out an unlikely individual for praise.
Jobs admired Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, reports The Telegraph, for his refusal to sell out, as well as his domination of the social networking space. Well a winner loves another winner, we suppose. Continue reading...
Apple boss claims one in four computers sold in America is a Mac
Macs are now the best-selling desktop and laptop computers in America, according to Tim Cook. Speaking at the 'Let's Talk iPhone' event in Cupertino where the iPhone 4S was launched, the Apple boss claimed nearly one in four computers sold in the United States is a Mac.
Cook, who quoted figures from NPD for US retail, claimed the Mac platform has achieved epidemic-like year on year growth of 23 per cent over the past five years and now has a total user base of almost 60 million. Year on year growth of PCs were stunted, in comparison, at just 4 per cent. Continue reading...
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Apple objects to Chinese food logo, LG stays mum
Apple is notoriously protective of its copyright, suing Samsung, HTC and Amazon, but now it's taken aim at a company making noodles and flour, claiming its logo is too similar to Apple's own. David, meet Goliath.
Apple's Chinese lawyers have told the Sichuan Fangguo Food Company its logo uses conceptual elements taken from Apple's. But if you take a look at the three logos side by side, maybe it's LG who should be getting annoyed, if anyone. Continue reading...
Sony Vaio L series goes 3D, slim S series updated
Sony has been busy at IFA this year showing off various new products including the Vaio L series -- an all-in-one PC with a 24-inch multi-touch screen supporting 3D content as well as the Vaio S series laptop that aims to take media to the road with a full HD display inside a slim magnesium body.
At first glance, the new model in the Vaio L series isn't really distinguishable from the model we had our hands on back in February. Both screens are 24-inches with a 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution. They both support multi-touch inputs so you don't need to use your mouse to navigate around. Continue reading...
Apple OS X Lion USB drive out now for ridiculous £55
Apple's OS X Lion is now available on a thumb drive for users without broadband -- at a wallet-bleeding £55.
Most Mac users have been downloading their Lion upgrade straight from the Mac App Store, but Apple recognises some folk just aren't online yet. Continue reading...
iMac for £600, but only for US students
A cheap new version of Apple's iMac desktop has appeared without fanfare on the company's US site. But the lower-priced aluminium behemoth is only for educational institutions.
The 21.5-inch 'education only' iMac, spotted by MacRumors, is listed at a price of $999, which translates to roughly £610 -- rather affordable considering the cheapest iMac on the UK site will set you back a grand. Continue reading...
New MacBook Air and Mac mini are official, packing Thunderbolt and Lion 
This time next year, Rodney, we'll be mini and Airs! We will if Apple keeps to a yearly refresh schedule, because it's just unleashed a bumper crop of updated tech, including new MacBook Airs and a new Mac mini desktop. Flip through the official photos above to take a gander, and read on for all the info. Continue reading...
Xi3 ChromiumPC is first desktop to run Chrome OS
This attractive hunk of metal is the ChromiumPC Modular Computer from manufacturer Xi3, who claim it's the world's first desktop computer to run the Chrome operating system.
Based on Xi3's Computer Architecture, the toaster-esque aluminium machine supports any x86 operating system, including Windows, Linux and Unix. It uses an x86 based processor -- either dual or single-core -- housed in a 101 by 93 by 93mm chassis. Continue reading...
Intel Ivy Bridge microprocessor adds 3D sauce to your chips
Intel is adding an extra dimension to microprocessors with its new Ivy Bridge chip. It has tiny fins Intel is calling 3D technology, as the company tries to get more of its chips into mobile phones.
Pay attention: here comes the science. The transistor gate -- the bit the current passes through -- is just 22 nanometres long. A nanometre is one billionth of a metre, and a human hair measures 60,000nm across. Today's chips measure 32nm. Continue reading...
Apple iMac bolts on Thunderbolt, FaceTime and quad-core Intel Core i5
Apple is casting Thunderbolts at the iMac. The all in one desktop computer has been overhauled, with the new models adding a high-speed Thunderbolt connection and FaceTime video-calling on the outside, with quad-core Intel processors and new graphics chips inside.
The new iMac, whose design is otherwise unchanged, is powered by the quad-core Intel Core i5 processor previously known as Sandy Bridge, with the chip's teething problems ironed out by Intel. Apple reckons the AMD Radeon HD graphics processors make this "the most powerful graphics ever in an all in one desktop". Continue reading...
Acer Aspire Z5763 has gesture-controlled 3D display, forgettable name
A year ago, we thought controlling a computer by prodding a meat stylus at its touchscreen was the height of next-gen sophistication. Acer may just have reset our expectations, however, with the Aspire Z5763 -- an all-in-one computer you control by flailing your arms about.
This ridiculously named device has a 2-megapixel webcam that, according to Engadget, can monitor users' movements using a gesture-recognition system Acer has dubbed ZQ3318P10. Just kidding, it's seen sense and called it something people will actually remember -- Acer AirControl. Continue reading...
Acer DX241H Web Surf Station is like a tablet on a stick
"What the devil," we hear you ask, "is the Acer DX241H Web Surf Station?" That's funny -- we were about to ask the same question. On the face of it, the Web Surf Station is a 24-inch high-definition monitor, but it also surfs the Net, making it an intriguing mash-up of Internet-connected television, all-in-one PC and tablet.
According to Acer, it's "the first monitor that lets you surf the Web and enjoy your multimedia with no need of a computer!" That's either brilliant or bunkum. We haven't decided which yet. Continue reading...
Commodore 64 makes comeback for retro-gaming thrills
The legendary Commodore 64 is making a comeback. That's right, retro-gaming fans -- the beige box that stole your heart in the 80s is once more being sold, staying true to the aesthetic of the original machine but packing updated components.
The new machine is essentially an Ubuntu-flavoured Linux PC that runs a Commodore 64 emulator. You can also install Windows 7 on it, so you can actually get some work done. Basically, it's a proper computer with a charming retro twist. Continue reading...
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