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Picking the Brightest, Most Efficient Bulb

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 17 at 3:41 pm PT

Katie offers a brief guide to the latest energy-efficient light bulbs.

You Know You’re Going to Watch It: All About the Times Square Ball

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 31, 2011 at 5:30 pm PT

It’s said a billion people watch the six-ton ball drop every year. Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about it.

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

Beth Callaghan in News on October 20, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.

New TV Tech Could Be Boon for Venture-Backed Chip Companies

Scott Denne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 26, 2010 at 8:21 am PT

The move to new display technologies and demand for new applications are turning televisions into the next growth segment for chip companies, and venture-backed companies could benefit. Annual sales of semiconductors into televisions will grow by $2.9 billion this year to $12.2 billion, according to a new report from iSuppli, a semiconductor research firm that expects that pace of growth to continue on through next year.

Apple Adds a Bit of Pro to Low-End MacBook

John Paczkowski in News on May 18, 2010 at 5:59 am PT

With no fanfare whatsoever, Apple refreshed its entry-level MacBook this morning, swapping it out for a faster machine featuring longer battery life and a better video chip. With a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an Nvidia GeForce 320m graphics chip and 10 hours of battery life, the updated MacBook is similar in spec to the 13-inch MacBook Pro.

iPad TV?

John Paczkowski in News on February 5, 2010 at 4:31 pm PT

Could Apple’s future as a multichannel video distributor lie not with AppleTV but with the iPad? Might the “best of TV” iTunes subscription offering the company has been pitching to TV networks since last November be primarily intended for that device and not the company’s sleeper AppleTV platform?

The Android Invasion Continues: Motorola Debuts the Backflip

John Paczkowski in Social on January 7, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Motorola has added another superphone to its Android portfolio, the Backflip. Unveiled at a press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the device is similar to Verizon’s Droid in that it features both a touchscreen and keypad, but with one interesting twist: A reverse “qwerty” flip keypad that folds out from behind the display.

The GPhone Lives: Google Uncrates the Nexus One “Superphone”

John Paczkowski in News on January 5, 2010 at 10:17 am PT

During an Android demo in April 2008, Steve Horowitz, one of the original engineers working on Google’s Android platform, said, “I’m here to tell you there is actually no GPhone.” Now, not two years later, Google is telling us something different. There is a GPhone, its name is Nexus One and Google officially unveiled it this morning at an event at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.

Apple Updates Mac Lineup, Announces Multitouch "Magic Mouse"

John Paczkowski in News on October 20, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

The Apple store went offline Tuesday morning and when it returned, it did so with a groaning board of new hardware, including a range of aluminum and edge-to-edge glass iMacs, new Mac Minis, a 13-inch unibody polycarbonate MacBook and a wireless, multitouch “Magic Mouse.”

Apple Updates Mac Lineup, Announces Multitouch “Magic Mouse”

John Paczkowski in News on October 20, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

The Apple store went offline Tuesday morning and when it returned, it did so with a groaning board of new hardware, including a range of aluminum and edge-to-edge glass iMacs, new Mac Minis, a 13-inch unibody polycarbonate MacBook and a wireless, multitouch “Magic Mouse.”