Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple have said today that he’s been given leave of absence for medical reasons, however, the worrying part of his statement is he has not stated how long he will be away for. Jobs also took a six-month leave of absence in early 2009 when he received a liver transplant. While he has made no mention of leaving his role permanently, Tim Cooks will be the man in charge of Apple’s 2011 plans.
If having a netbook that boots up from shut down in a whopping ten seconds and instant from sleep wasn’t quite enough. The Pilot program CR48 Google netbook has been hacked in the video below to now also run all three OSs: Google Chrome OS, Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Facetime will soon finally meet its match. Well, it looks like Skype may finally have caught up with everyone else. A recently published Skype info support page has started providing instructions on how to make video calls from your iOS device, even though regular Skype users amongst you will already know that that is not currently a supported feature on the Skype app.
Dan Ackerman takes a look at the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air, which features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor launched last week. Its the newest netbook sized laptop to be featured in the MacBook lineup. He also demonstrates one key feature of the new MacBook
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While I personally believe Steve Jobs has entered the new 11″ MacBook Air into the dying market of netbooks, he has however, created a Mac netbook like no other. With the new MacBook Air just as thin but even more lightweight (2.3 pounds), it will be an attractive netbook hard to beat.
Hey folks, just days after the first screenshot of the new Pwnage Tool for jailbreaking iOS devices running 4.1 was released, we now have the official word that its ready for download. The new free Pwnage Tool 4.1 will support jailbreaking of iOS 4.1 on iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 2G, 3G and 4G. In addition, it’ll also jailbreak the iPad as well as the new Apple TV 2.
The new MacBook Airs’ introduced tonight at the ‘Back to the Mac’ event has no optical drive as with the first generation but neither will it have a hard drive. This explains the fact that it can allow instant-on functionality. The latest MacBook Air is the first of a new generation of notebooks that leaves behind mechanical rotating storage in favor of solid state flash storage.
The MacBook Air has memory up to two times faster that is more reliable and 90 percent smaller and lighter.
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