Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Apple unveils its … iPad

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Apple CEO Steve Jobs lifts the veil on the iPad, a “magical” tablet-like device that starts at $499 and will begin shipping in two months. For more updates, follow @cnntech on Twitter or read complete coverage on CNNMoney.

With Apple tablet, will size matter?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Tech journalist Nicholas Deleon wonders how the size of Apple’s new tablet device will affect its success or failure in the marketplace.

Facebook ‘unnamed app’ bug is fixed

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Word of a Facebook bug spread on the social networking site Wednesday before the “unnamed app,” which officials say wasn’t harmful, was fixed.

iPad name draws feminine hygiene jokes

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Punch lines about hygiene products flooded the blogosphere on Wednesday only moments after Apple Inc. announced it would call its new touch-screen computer the “iPad.”

New rule for truckers: No texting

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.

Google Voice finally on iPhone, in the browser

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Google’s end run around Apple’s App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application.

Flying radio station broadcasts help to Haiti

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Sixty miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, an Air Force C-130 makes slow and lazy ovals over the Golfe de la Gonzave, a 264-foot weighted wire dangling from its belly like a plumb line.

Haitian PM: Orphans being targeted by traffickers

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

There is trafficking in children and human organs in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated parts of Haiti, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has said.

China’s super-rich look for love online

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

In China it can be hard for millionaires to find love. Just ask Xu Tianli.

State of Union ‘pivotal’ for Obama

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

It’s a tale of two speeches.