During the Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote today, Apple previewed OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard.” True to rumors, the release will focus on performance rather than new features, however technologies included include “Grand Central” for multi-core CPUs, OpenCL for processing on GPUs (like CUDA), QuickTime X, and Exchange 2007 support in the OS.

?We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,' said Bertrand Serlet, Apple?s senior vice president of Software Engineering. ?In our continued effort to…

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Either Apple’s getting leakier or the fakers are getting fake…ier, but the latest round of supposed 3G iPhone pictures is upon us courtesy of Dutch site iPhoneclub.nl and our old friend Mr. Blurrycam, and they’re pretty convincing.

No opinion on these photos - but as someone who takes a lot of “spy shots”, that is, quick photos taken discreetly of things and people, it's pretty common to have less than sharp focus on them. Try whipping out your camera phone…

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Lined up in Jonathan Ive's studio in Cupertino, California are four chunky Black Pencils. That's capital B and capital P, because these are no ordinary pencils.

If you read the Jonathan Ive cuttings file not a big book, he rarely gives interviews you'll find the same few scraps of information over and over: Jonathan is shy, he's modest, he's private. The boy from Chingford who became the…

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Apple snags a much larger share of the market when you focus on brick-and-mortar sales of “premium” PCs; desktops and notebooks that cost $1,000 or more.

According to NPD's numbers recounted by Apple Watch, Apple snags a much larger share of the market when you focus on brick-and-mortar sales of "premium" PCs; desktops and notebooks that cost $1,000 or more. It is…

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