Although rumors have provided quite a lot of fairly consistent information about the 7.85-inch Apple tablet, to date, the two most compelling features have been its smaller size and reduced price. A fresh leak, however, indicates that iPad mini battery …

Currently, Apple’s MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini don’t ship with optical drives and it looks like Apple is preparing a 2012 iMac refresh sans the ability to read and write shiny plastic disks, at least with integrated drives. …

Aside from eBay and Craigslist, where can you find used a MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro? You can’t get an Apple portable at the ubiquitous game retailer yet, but you might not have to wait long until Apple notebooks …

So, what did Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing mean when he said that Instagram “…jumped the shark when it went to Android”? Pageview mongers and haters alike jumped to the perhaps all-too-obvious conclusion — the mere association with …

What’s different about today from about a year ago? Beyond a lot of hater vituperation, not much. That is, the Mac is no more or less vulnerable than it was, and don’t download crap and definitely don’t give your credit …

Wanna know what Apple’s up to at its Maiden, North Carolina data center? Well, a local real estate agent, a guy who owns land just down the road, seems to have the inside scoop, which is about the only “first …

A fresh report out of Taiwan just might be the news Android tablet makers have been waiting for. However, so far the only source we have is a pair of Asian analysts and that’s an information channel highly prone to …

For bloggers, fresh rumors out of Taiwan can mean a scoop worth thousands or even millions of pageviews, long-tail back links and, one hopes, maybe some decent coin (i.e. Mac n’ Cheese vs. cheap ramen) from Adsense et al. For …

When will we get new iPods? September. How about the iPhone 5? Sometime in late June or early July. Apple shipped the first iPad at the beginning of April (they promised late March). That said, when do you think they’ll …

Apple loves emerging technologies and materials, as well as the efficiencies and style these deliver. Fresh news out of Taiwan posits that the next-generation Apple tablet could come to market inside a carbon-fiber enclosure. What’s surprising is the source of …