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So, I have some good news and some bad news!

Bad news: The rumors about the iPad featuring a camera have been debunked– when the iPads ship on the 3rd, they will be camera-less.
Good news: The guys over 9TO5 Mac stumbled upon some neat little files in the new iPad 3.2 SDK– they’re actually listed as [...]

There’s not much information to report, but while Steve Balmer was at the University of Washington, he was was asked about how Microsoft planned on tackling large-screen TVs.  He replied:

For that big screen device … there’s no diversity. You get exactly the Xboxes that we build for you. We may have more form factors in [...]

Talk about success: in just four short months, Microsoft has managed to sell an astounding 90 million copies of Windows 7, its latest operating system.
Microsoft CFO, Peter Klein, announced this astonishing figure at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Telecom Conference earlier this week in San Francisco noting the operating system’s “terrific momentum.”
In case you’re [...]

A Sweedish technology-buff sent an email to Steve Jobs asking the following question, “Will the wifi-only version [of the iPad] somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?”
Steve’s answer:
Ämne: Re: Dear mr. Jobs
Från: Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com>
Datum: 5 mars 2010 17.01.29 CET
Till: Jezper Söderlund <>
Return-Path: <sjobs@apple.com>
No.
Sent from my iPhone.
After a careful analysis of the email’s heading, bloggers have [...]

It’s official. The Apple iPad will ship on the 3rd of April– Apple will begin taking pre-orders for its newest device starting March 12th.

A variety of other countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will have to wait until a few weeks later in order to get their hands [...]

Before I begin this post, I’d like to offer you a little background info in case you’re not completely familiar with PDK. Palm’s WebOS  is written in the languages of the web–HTML, Javascript, and CSS.  If you were to download Palm’s Mojo SDK (Software Development Kit), you’d find that it’s filled with these different technologies. Despite these [...]

MacHeist is now offering a bundle of five different apps for Mac OS X for only $19.99; purchasing each application separately would normally cost over $260. Users will have another six days to take advantage of this deal.
If you purchase the bundle, you’ll receive MacJournal, RipIt, Clips, CoverScout, Flow. If enough people order, you’ll also get copies of Tales of Monkey [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series is now said to have three different chassis.
The first one is the pocky box that seems to be going for the ultra-simple user interface that everybody saw at launch day, and is being toted around as a better iPhone.  It supports a massive capacitive multi-touchscreen.  Its packing a minimum of a [...]

Although Natal is supposed to be one of the biggest inventions of 2010 (ranking higher than the AIDS vaccine and teleportation according to TIME), there is one major deficiency that has caught the eye of nearly every person who got a hands-on with the device.  Project Natal experiences a very distinct  lag  in which your [...]

Apple has never taken a stance on sexually deviant or even straight out porn apps, but, as of today, they have; Apple just began pulling a slew of apps from the App Store. Although it is now much safer for your children to view the Lifestyle category, I imagine that porn-peddlers will just come [...]

If there was ever a time to start buying up stocks in energy (note: TechTrackr in no way recommends or evaluates the stock market, thus all “suggestions” are for creative purposes only), now would be the time.
If you do decide to buy shares in the energy market, you’ll most likely be getting them from an [...]