Get this one before it disappears. The new timeline feature has a friend summary for each year that shows how many friends you made in that year. When you click the list, you will see who friended you for that year. If next to any of their names is an “Add Friend” button, you know [...]

  Engineers at Houston’s Rice University have developed “full-duplex” technology that allows wireless phones to “talk” and “listen” on the same frequency. This would allow phone companies to double network throughput without adding additional cell towers. “Our solution requires minimal new hardware, both for mobile devices and for networks, which is why we’ve attracted the [...]

  Has your information been compromised? ShouldIChangeMyPassword by Daniel Grzelak checks your email address against the publicly available password lists from recent website hacks. If your email address is found, the warning message will tell you how many times it appears. It doesn’t, however, tell you which account was hacked, but you can cross-reference the [...]

  At one time, you picked up the phone and a voice on the other end asked, “Number, please”.  This AT&T video (or film at the time) explains how to use these new dials on phones. Source: AT&T Tech Channel

On May 19, 2001, Apple opened its first two retail stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California. Ten years and over 300 stores later, Apple will be celebrating the 10th anniversary with something, but what? According to Macstories, there will be an all-hands employee meeting in the US retails stores Sunday, May 22. BGR [...]

A rare security threat is targeting computers running Apple’s Mac OS X. Just like it’s counterparts on Windows-based PCs, MAC Defender finds non-existent viruses and prompts the user to purchase and install the program. It initiates in a web page through an infected link in Google image searches. It appears to perform a virus scan [...]

Apple today announced an update to its all-in-one iMac. The new iMac comes in at the same starting price point as its predecessor $1,199 but sporting new features, including Intel quad-core processors, AMD Radeon HD graphics processors, Thunderbolt high-speed ports, and a FaceTime HD camera. “Our customers love the iMac’s aluminum enclosure, gorgeous display and [...]