Jared Newman - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 25/08/2009 Snow Leopard vs. Win 7: Battle Begins August 28

Apple's latest operating system update, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, should be ready to roll on August 28, and while Apple says the new OS is "refined, not r...

Article | 21/08/2009 Windows Mobile needs identity to attack Android, iPhone

Microsoft will reportedly push two mobile operating systems at once in an effort to battle Google's Android and Apple's iPhone, but are two heads bett...

Article | 14/08/2009 Microsoft Word Lawsuit: XML Explained

When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The p...

Article | 13/08/2009 Report: Your Palm Pre may be spying on you

Is your Palm Pre spying on you and sending your GPS coordinates and more back to the Palm mothership on a daily basis? According to mobile application...

Article | 12/08/2009 iPhone by the numbers: is it really king?

With the constant buzz around Apple's every iPhone-related movement, you'd think the smartphone was dominating the industry. Revolutionary as it is, t...

Article | 11/08/2009 Five netbooks Microsoft has crushed

Think most netbooks have single-core processors, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive because their manufacturers like conformity? Right. The reality -- ...

Article | 7/08/2009 Top 10 reader iPhone annoyances (and how to fix them)

Who knew there were so many iPhone annoyances? Last week we listed ten common failings of the iPhone and discussed how to correct them. Maybe it was n...

Article | 4/08/2009 Google CEO Schmidt steps down from Apple board

It was only a matter of time, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board of directors.

Article | 31/07/2009 Top 9 iPhone annoyances (and how to fix them)

Even the greatest gadgets have flaws, and the iPhone is certainly no exception. Praise it all you want, but the "Jesus phone" has plenty of little ann...

Article | 30/07/2009 Pirate Bay sale is sinking

The Pirate Bay's shot at legitimacy may be over before it even began, as Swedish firm Global Gaming Factory hasn't produced enough money to buy the le...

Article | 30/07/2009 Yahoo Search: RIP

Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who ...

Article | 29/07/2009 Sprint: Defend yourself against Verizon's Palm Pre

In its latest attempt to show some smartphone muscle, Verizon Wireless says it will offer the Palm Pre in early 2010.

Article | 25/07/2009 Twitter needs to teach people to tweet

Technology journalists are often accused of blowing Twitter out of proportion, and for good reason.

Article | 24/07/2009 Top 5 games to appear at Comic Con

Every year, Comic Con loses a bit of its comic book roots and cedes floor space to purveyors of other nerdy impulses. Video games, in particular, have...

Article | 24/07/2009 Gmail wish list: five features we'd like to see

In the early days, Gmail hooked us with its innovative features, like the way it threaded together e-mails under the same subject.