Casual News Thursday is back with a vengeance, covering the silly, the strange and the staggering in technology news.

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Developments that will affect consumers flow out of the World Mobile Conference, Pwn2Own is fast approaching and Utah denies climate change theory...enjoy!

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Saturday saw the end of this year's MacWorld Expo and today we'll take a quick look back at our favorite tidbits as well as Google's latest statement and DRM for e-books--in the iBookstore!

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A look at production cost versus profit of iPad...but don't worry, it's not all serious. Google's building a new internet and an iPhone app set to be released this summer promises to put your pooch on Twitter. Yes. Really.

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Opera is all set to submit a rival browser to the App Store...any ideas on the outcome of that one? In addition, Aperture gets an update and app developers are asked to speak their minds.

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Mostly iPad today, folks--how can we resist? We're bringing you news from Adobe and DROID as well, along with a New York Times article we found inspiring. Enjoy!

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Hope your Superbowl weekend was lovely! Here's more about e-Books, Steve Jobs acting crazy and a note about this week's MacWorld Expo.

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Adobe and Apple get even more heated with the recent iPad ads, iTunes Preview adds another great feature and teens aren't on Twitter quite as much as we thought.

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Foxconn gets some backup...reportedly. Also, iPhone slips a touch in market share and new jobs online get security officials all fired up!

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iPad keeps on shakin' things up...also, Nokia slashes prices in its smartphone portfolio and a look at new directions in file sharing.

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Magnum Photos sells photo print archive to Dell.

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An iPad discussion, and two things it really should have...iPad 2.0 anyone? Read more...

Record revenues, legal issues and a new Google Voice web app are today's big stories; dig in and pass the time 'till tomorrow! Read more...

The days leading up to Wednesday's event will be a maelstrom of rumors. Well...here, at least. Have fun! Read more...

There's a lot of bad stuff that happens in this world, but one story out of Haiti reminded us why we love our gadgets so much. Read it to believe it! Read more...

Apple is grooming us for the future...and we're going to like it, gosh darn it. Read more...

Content is the battle to win in the tablet wars...we're taking the fact that Apple's hardware is going to decimate the competition for granted. Read more...

Between The Woz and China we're not sure which way is up today...but we guarantee finding it will be interesting! Read more...

Our favorite of favorites today: rumors, some more rumors, good news from Apple and bad news from The Other Guys. Read more...

A look at the best of CES plus smartphone news and irrefutable evidence that the iPhone is still King of Capacative Touch. Read more...

A little news from the floor of CES plus a laugh and "so there" for your mom. Honestly!! Read more...

A glimpse into the inner workings of Apple's political machine along with a brief on the Nexus One and Disney's KeyChest. Read more...

A new phone from Google might set the example we need...plus the latest from the FCC and Apple updates. Enjoy! Read more...

Three wishes for the new year from MacTribe...no resolutions here. We know what happens to those. Read more...

A New Year retrospective? How boring. We found other fun stuff to celebrate the year's end. Read more...

Heard about the movie Nine? Well...we've got a little review for you. And some BitTorrent news...just to keep you on your toes! Read more...

At&T's latest blunder sets off New Yorkers, plus a look at market share predictions and international issues concerning Apple's big seller. Read more...

Rumors swirl as the end of the year approaches, and we're taking odds on that "January 26th" release date! Read more...

Microsoft's in trouble again to the tune of $290 million, Apple TV wants you to start paying them for cable and our NES and iPhone dreams are shattered, just in time for Christmas. Read more...

Change your life developing apps--who doesn't want a million bucks in venture funding? Also, check up on iPhone market share and the latest from Ford. Read more...

Apple's stock projected to hit new heights, the 3G network comes to Vermont and Celery helps you Twitter... Read more...

A Nintendo DS inspires the kind of devotion in a man most women can only dream of, the EU backs down and Steve Jobs gets a personalized Christmas carol. From the Netherlands. Read more...

Operation Chokehold...for real or empty threats? Share your thoughts! Read more...

iMacs delayed again, App Store gets a makeover, and malicious links try to ruin your holidays...make strong passwords and see that they don't ruin your holiday cheer. Read more...

AT&T stomps on our hearts again...but Apple stepped up and NASA stuck air bags on the outside of a helicopter, so we're mollified. Slightly. Read more...

AOL's new identity, more Apple tablet rumors and the new Alicia Keys CD on Facebook, for free. Read more...

Wishes for feature integration and two new things that'll make your life easier. Read more...

The Daily Wish comes through with a killer DSLR deal, and AT&T is making spirits bright with their new app, Mark The Spot. Read more...

University of Michigan students make music on their iPhones, MySpace and Facebook give sex offenders the boot and Order Pizza does all the work for you...don't miss this! Read more...

Apps for every situation...and level of insanity. Enjoy! Read more...

Forgo the white Christmas entirely...go green this year! Read more...

A home for all rejected apps, another chapter in the endless Psystar battle and a job for a RickRoller. Oh yeah. Read more...

Websites and feeds to let you sleep in on Black Friday, more iPhone worm updates and another case of Facebook pictures coming back to haunt you. Read more...

Lawyers battle it out when personal emails from Steve Jobs don't cut it...plus, tablet rumors! Yay! Read more...

Well, Halloween's over and Thanksgiving is next week, so...we've got some gift ideas for you. Yes, already. Read more...

Black Friday rumors, stolen Belgian iPhones and an interesting job posting on Apple's corporate site...hmmm. Read more...

Apple Stock expert Clem Chambers weighs in again--he's got the goods on what to do with your shares. Read more...

Some interesting shorts, and a big announcement from Mactribe...what's official? Wouldn't you like to know. Read more...

Weekend Round Up! Read more...

Friday the 13th? Pfffft. Casual News Friday takes this holiday head on. Read more...

Apple closes in on Microsoft's lead, Safari gets a security update and Facebook serves as a teenager's alibi... Read more...

EA buys PlayFish and sacks employees, another app is denied and Google gives the U.S. WiFi for the holidays. Just another day. Read more...

Updates on tethering, AT&T's exclusivity deal, and a brand new way to use Twitter head up today's news...dig in! Read more...

Jump start your week with new bugs, worms, and other creepy crawlies that want to get into your stuff. Read more...

Weekend Round Up! Read more...

Casual News Friday takes on the DROID. Read more...

App Store history, the importance of Steve Jobs to Apple, and a question: would you give a three year old your iPhone? Read more...

After a day off to film more MacTribe podcast footage, we're baa-ack. Are you an AmEx holder AND an iPod lover? We've got a sale for you. Also, see Mac OS X's rising market share... Read more...

Anyone else enjoy our long weekend? We're back with a vengeance today concentrating on some great stories coming out of China...enjoy! Read more...

What says "throwback" like a traditional knock down drag down legal fight? Nothing, as far as we're concerned. Look out, Nokia. Read more...

Throwback week continues with rumors (and data!!) about the (hopefully) impending Apple tablet. (Fingers crossed!) Read more...

Today, we're getting back to our roots! Apple and iPhone news abounds, and we've put it together for ya. Enjoy! Read more...

In honor of Halloween, we're trudging through the Internet Cemetary and visiting the freshest site: Yahoo!'s GeoCities. R.I.P. Read more...

Weekend Round Up Strikes Again! Read more...

You know how much we love gadgets; however, our tastes usually run to the diminuitive. Not this time! The HARPS instrument is making discoveries that are anything but small. Read more...

iTunes University could easily slip under your radar, but please, don't let it. Colleges from Oxford to Yale have entire course's worth of lectures posted there. For free. Get smarter now! Read more...

The new iPhones Apple just shipped that are supposedly un-hackable? Not so, it turns out. But jailbreaking them does make life wildly inconvenient...we hear.
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Apple's fourth quarter revenue shatters analysts predictions, coming in at 9.87 billion dollars. Where was the iPhone in all of this, you ask? Right where it should have been.
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Our two day Apple Market Watch begins with Clem Chambers, whose advice reminds us to remain calm in the midst of the brouhaha surrounding the announcement of Q4 earnings later today.
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Casual News Friday continues with a collection of fun, strange and otherwise interesting notes in the world of technology...we, at least, got a giggle.
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It's all Twitter all the time today, with updates on the most recent wobble in service and a reminder of Drew Carey's million dollar pledge--go follow the man!
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From Google Wars to Disney Stores, all you've got to do is click in to check out the latest technology news. Plus, do you MySpace, or Facebook, or Twitter? New data may say more about you than you'd like.
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President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win has set the internet ablaze with controversy, and Twitter comments are at the forefront. Also, a completely unrelated and wonderful bit of goodness.
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Once again, we found waaaay too much good stuff to restrict ourselves to one topic: jump in and enjoy the FCC's newest plans, Google and Facebook's latest endeavors, and a ballcap that will have you humming a...well...different tune.
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We promised we'd give AT&T a break, but we have to say, "broken promises don't bother us. We just think, why did they believe us?" Thanks, Jack Handey...also, a really creepy BEAR.
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Dive into the news today and experience the full range of technology updates from the ridiculous to the sublime. Or at least the relatively funny to the pretty serious.
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Digital Rights Management and You: Amazon.com's $150,000 mistake and how DRM translates into all our stuff...along with hopes that CDs,video games and DVDs wil soon go the way of the VCR. Gosh, that's a lot of acronyms.
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The ever-popular weekend round up is here--go ahead. Try and pretend you weren't waiting to see what delicious tidbits we'd have for you today. Just try.
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Today we explore the lighter side of news, but don't be fooled...there's always a practical application! See how technology is making life easier for some very special animals.
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In a coup for Apple, the iPhone OS has finally overtaken the worldwide market share in mobile web browsing, according to AdMob's August Mobile Metric report. Let's hear it for the iPhone!
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Students and teachers at Georgia Tech have a preliminary version of Augmented Reality technology poised to populate Google Earth! (Is it just us or do you need a cartoon villian laugh after that?)
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Today we have a special treat for you--stock expert Clem Chambers has written his quarterly Apple Stock Watch for our erudition and enjoyment. Don't blame him for the headlines, though...they're still our bad jokes.
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With two major Silicon Valley executives running for Governor in California, we think it's time to look at how the lessons they've learned in the technology sector could benefit them in the governmental. Spending and tax breaks and jobs--oh my.
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What...you didn't think we'd forget you over the weekend, did you? Cut us some slack...it only happened once. Or so.
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Greenpeace's new Toxic Technology ratings point to Apple being seriously below the curve, but we're here to stick up for the company: Apple scored lower on this test because it's following a different answer key.
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With the number of users on Facebook now numbering over three hundred million (almost as many people as live in the United States), it seems like it's time to look at a few things; namely, what using these sites is doing to your personal privacy and how on earth they've managed to turn a profit.

We're thinking, somehow, that the two are related.
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South Korea has opened its borders to competing technology, and here's hoping the iPhone gives Samsung and LG a run for their money on the home court! Because of the location technology on the phone it took a long time for officials to decide, but hey...if we lived in their neighborhood we'd be a little cautious too.
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FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced yesterday that he has proposed a set of rules that would effectively prohibit internet service providers from discriminating against any web traffic regardess of competition or bandwith usage. Sounds like a plan!
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President Obama has taken the first step in what we hope will be a major initiative to get the government up to speed technologically. Cloud computing, online data, agency transperency...be still our beating hearts.
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Making major noise in the microstock photography world today is iStockphoto, which has just released news that they'll be offering a legal guarantee on thier images up to $10,000. Take that, big stock companies!
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Remember how hurt and alone you felt when you had to pay for the iPod touch firmware update and your iPhone using friends didn't? Yeah...we do too. Find out why you paid and how the rules are changing, and read about a Baltimore student...who's also a samurai.
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Musings on technology and life today, along with a pretty sweet pic of the new Lexus concept car, complete with iPhone dock in the back of the driver's headrest. Quiet down, kiddies, mummy's going to play you a video.
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We've got crazy Dutch video of the future of augmented reality in store for you today... make sure you get over to our twitter page to tell us your feelings on this fascinating and scary development. Did we mention the video has Brad Pitt in it?
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The big overview of the Apple iPod event yesterday...and how we really felt about it! A little "The Beatles: Rock Band" teaser too, but you bought that yesterday, didn't you? Read on!
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A new format awaits you...aren't you excited? Plus, rumors concerning the Apple event tomorrow reach critical mass. Check it out, and don't forget to follow or updates on twitter!
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From At&T network issues to the best Techie Trendy laptop bag roundup, we’ve got it covered for you in today’s news. Check out the return of Steve Jobs…enjoy!
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From innovations in Snow Leopard to the genius guys at Harmonix, we’ve got it covered for you in today’s news. Check out new IRS rules, Psystar updates and font facts as well…enjoy!
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Between VoIP calls and monitoring swine flu outbreaks, it’s a wonder we have any time to focus on GE’s crazy new innovations and the giant split between eBay and Skype. We always have time to update on Twitter, though…funny how that works. Read all this—and more!—in today’s news.
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Speculation ends as far as the date of Apple’s iPod event, but there are still unanswered questions about the focus thereof, as well as when Apple will finally pull out of its exclusive deal with AT&T. What we do know? Disney’s bought Marvel Comics, MacTribe’s pointed you in the right direction for your fledgling screenplay needs, and you can smell like Captain Kirk for 29.99. Pounds, that is.

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A bit of nostalgia...ok, a lot of nostalgia...some new math in Snow Leopard, iPhones in China and nifty little gadgets for when we all move to Mars. What a nice day for the news!

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Redesigned MacBooks top the news list here today, but we've rounded out your coverage with iPhone cases, Apple's sales, an app for Chipotle, and a baby getting rocked to sleep with an old CD-ROM drive. Please...we couldn't get so serious on you all of a sudden.

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We started out strong with TuneUp Gold, TextExpander, Apple's e-book market and music on MySpace, but the laptop burqa is the real draw here...don't let any actual news fool you.
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The anti-Twitter, classic iPhone wallpaper, app reviews, Parallels, and why you have to stop searching for Jessica Biel online. A really good reason, we swear.
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A treatise on voice data networks and the monopoly of the phone company dominates the news today, but we've managed to get some awesome faked Apple product photos and the Snow Leopard release date to you as well...dig in and let us know what you think.

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Today we explore your whirring hard drive (and how to fix it), Mac fashion, how apps can save you money, the coolness of PhotoBooth and stock photography options. Catch the weekend round up as well...enjoy everything!

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Two Apple tablets in the works?? How could we be so lucky!? In other news...Spotlight bugs get fixed with 3.1, DJ on the go, make millions with one hour of work, and sign up for the newsletter already. Sheesh.

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From iTunes to Public Radio to wireless speakers to the Apple fall event, we've got you covered in today's news. Read up on all the happenings, plus an interview with Jack Hollingsworth, Photography Guru.

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Today, apps ranging from fun to frightening, the new Siggraph conference, and the Marine Corps ban of social networking. Yup: no Facebook, MySpace, Twitter...nada.

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In case you’re just getting into the Apple phenomenon—we’re getting more converts every day—here’s a brand new look at the lineup to give you an overview of the coolness that is Mac. Also in the news, superstar iPhone tips, more on the Google Voice debate, and exploding iPods…oh my!

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E-waste is polluting developing nations, etiquette makes us think twice about Facebook updates and the CEO of Google has left the Apple board…but in here, life is beautiful! Escape from the news (after you read it, of course) with MacTribe’s awesome collection of fun audio recording toys and software. Digital turntables anyone?

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In today's news, use your iPhone to get great deals on dinner--just not while you're driving there, ok? Take a look at Apple's domination of the premium laptop market, read an interview with an amazing artist, and thank Apple for making you even more intelligent and creative than you already are.

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It’s been a busy day in the Mac universe: tablet rumors are running wild and Philadelphia teens are jailbreaking iPhones. To give you a breather we’ve also found an iPhone case that’s bringing a new meaning to old school and a smart way to organize your iTunes Library, in addition to MacTribe’s Audio Picks and a review of all the presents we got this summer from the WWDC.

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Cases, chargers and covers, oh my: it’s summer time and for us that means being out and about day and night. Our iPhones are coming along for the ride, that’s for sure, and these accessories make it easy, safe and comfortable to take your baby with you, whether you’re headed into the great outdoors or the concrete jungle.

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In times of high market volatility stocks tend to follow the general market rather than their own personal company history. The saying goes that ‘a rising tide raises all boats.’ It’s also true that bad times sink them and the crazy moments shake them about too.

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Much to the surprise of the bears, global stock markets have had a furious rally. From early March, when the world economy teetered on the brink of a final and catastrophic collapse, the markets turned back and have shot up. It had to come and while pundits are usually predicting a future based on the past trend they spotted too late, they very rarely see what’s up next.

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Our eyes seemed to be fixed on the mountainous slopes of the stock market these days and our desire for the uphill climb back to economic recovery has yet to be answered. Daring to be different, however, Apple has proven once again that it is a company that beats the odds as this week the company not only reached 1 billion downloads in iPhone Apps, a true testament to the unbelievable success of the iPhone...

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There has been lots of speculation as to why the iPhone is not a runaway hit in Japan. The answer is simple: you cannot attach a strap with a cartoon character on it. I know this sounds lame but I can attest, having been subverted by working in Japan, I simply can’t use a phone without a modern version of a Netsuke attached to it.

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Since the crash in the Fall, Apple has been in a trading range of $80-110 and with the words recession and depression on everyone’s lips this is a stunning performance. At its current $100 a share, its market valuation is $89 billion - about two-thirds of the mighty GE. GE makes jet engines, brain scanners, all kinds of white goods and sells $180 billion of stuff; about six times what Apple does. This suggests $1 of sales at Apple is worth four dollars of activity at the US’s most respected corporation. That’s pretty good going.

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With the US economy crashing around Apple's ears and with competitors flooding the market with 'me too' smart phones, Apple's stock price shows the kind of resilience that marks it out from the crumbling stock price of most companies. Down 50% from the high is pretty good when you look at ream after ream of performance tables for solid companies down 70-80 even 90%+.
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