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  • Hackers Show It's Easy to Snoop on a GSM Call Hackers say they've shown how to eavesdrop on encrypted GSM phone conversations.
  • 2009 in Review: The Year in Business Center We spent most of 2009 listening to an unending stream of information about the world's financial crisis. But not all the news was bad for Mac businesses. Here...
  • Create a Simple Time-lapse Movie Time-lapse movies can give us a fresh perspective on the world around us by speeding up slow-moving action and compressing hours, days, and even months into...
  • 2009 in Review: The Year in Home Entertainment 2009 was a busy year for the iPod, iTunes, and Apple TV. Here’s a quick wrap-up of some of the big events of the past 12 months in the world of home...
  • Harvard Business Review Says Jobs Is Top-performing CEO Mac fans like to sing the praises of Steve Jobs for all he's done for Apple, especially after he returned in 1997 to the company he co-founded. And now, academia...
  • Maybe AT&T Really Should Limit iPhone Sales Why should AT&T sell something it really can't support terribly well, at least in NY and SF? Perhaps it's time to limit iPhone sales in those markets.
  • MarketWatch for IPhone What does Dow Jones’s financial wire service, MarketWatch, have that competitor Bloomberg doesn’t have? After all, both offer up-to-the-minute market news...
  • The Smartphones You Can Rely On Which mobile carriers offer clear, fast network connections? Which can solve your smartphone support problems? And can any device out there beat the iPhone? We surveyed thousands of readers and found definite winners—and losers—among handsets and carriers.
  • Top 15 Tech Events of the Decade From elusive Y2K bugs and unemployed sock puppets to rapidly shrinking laptops and rapidly growing clouds, here's a look at the last ten years in technology.
  • AT&T, NYC, and the Disappearing iPhone Mystery Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves: We have a new twist in the slow-news-day-driven mystery of the vanishing iPhone in the state of New York.
  • Amazon: E-book Sales Surpass Paper on Christmas Day With so much enthusiasm—aided by a good dose of marketing and technological evolution—surrounding e-book readers, it was bound to happen sooner or later: sales...
  • IPhone Once Again Available on AT&T Website for New Yorkers When we talked to AT&T earlier Monday about the unavailability of iPhones for New York shoppers using the AT&T Website, a company spokesman told us that...
  • How the Amazon Kindle May Evolve in 2010 E-readers were a hit this holiday season, but the e-reader market is likely to change dramatically next year. To stay on top, Amazon may need to reinvent the Kindle--or at least tweak it a bit.
  • Apple Tablet Could Attract Business Users Sure, it's a consumer product, but Apple's widely-rumored tablet computer could, finally, popularize the slate form factor for business, too.
  • Photo Contest: Hot Pics for December Subscribers to Dave Johnson's Digital Focus newsletter took these shots.
  • Chrome Netbook Specs Stretch Believability Google's plans for its mobile OS are again the subject of illogical speculation.
  • Report: IPhone Unavailable to New Yorkers via AT&T's Website Ah, New York... the city that never sleeps. The town so nice they named it twice. The metropolitan area where, according to a report on Consumerist, you can't...
  • Don't Steal This: Xbox 360 Thief Tracked by Gamertag Bronx man apprehended after stealing Xbox 360 and signing in with misappropriated Xbox LIVE login id.
  • Top 10 Tech Stories of the Decade While the computer industry in the 1990s thrived as corporations re-engineered business processes to incorporate IT, this decade has seen technology truly become...
  • AT&T Cuts Off Online iPhone Sales in NY AT&T has stopped online sales of the iPhone to New York residents in its latest PR debacle.

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