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Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover the Barnes & Noble Nook, Windows 7, Moto’s Droid, Apple’s latest computers, Dell’s new Adamo XPS, RIM’s new BlackBerry watch, VW’s new iPhone app, and Google’s music service.  Continue Reading »

A very sloppy Photoshop job has a red-faced Microsoft apologizing.  The problem?  In an ad in Poland, they Photoshopped a white man’s head over that of a black one.  It was glaringly obvious because the designer forgot to change the man’s hands, resulting in a white man with a black… Continue Reading »

There’s a lot of ways to recycle electronics now, mostly through companies such as Apple, Dell, Toshiba, HP and others,  Do you know if they are recycling them?  Tekserve, the largest independent Apple store in New York City (and New York State as well), is teaming with Lower East Side… Continue Reading »

So, Dell comes out with a new netbook.  At first, the Mini 12 was just a rumor, but it is all official.  It comes complete with a 12-inch display (up from their earlier Mini 9 model), although it is pretty much geared for the same crowd.  According to Dell, it… Continue Reading »

On Tuesday, October 14th, Steve Jobs announced a chipset that Apple worked on with Nvidia.  It resulted in a 16-core integrated GPU that’s in both the MacBook and MacBook Pro.  On Monday, Nvidia announced the desktop version of the GPU.  Nvidia is calling the chips the 9300 and 9400 mGPUs… Continue Reading »

While we have all come to expect that majority of these ultra-portable notebooks are very similar not only feature wise, but also in the way they look on the outside. However some new promo images from Asus and MSI are now offering (almost) the same image. Well, the image is… Continue Reading »

While the image could be completely faked, it would lead us to believe that Steve Ballmer is using a MacBook to run his presentations. What’s your call? The MacBook could have simply been Photoshopped in or possibly the MacBook is just running Windows, or maybe Ballmer has finally gone crazy… Continue Reading »

How long does it take you to earn $10,000? For Charlie Miller, of Independent Security Evaluators and former NSA employee, it takes him about two minutes. Last Thursday, Miller won the PWN 2 OWN competition at the 2008 CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, by successfully hacking a MacBook Air. In… Continue Reading »

In keeping with what seems like a Tuesday tradition for 2008, Apple has once again given us all something new. The store went down, the speculation began and with the return came some updated MacBook and MacBook Pro’s, both of which will be available immediately. Starting with the MacBook line,… Continue Reading »

Apple has certainly gotten a lot of buzz with their latest offering, the MacBook Air. There are a few Air’s out in the wild now, including John Mayer who was showing his off on a recent trip. The Air still is a little bit away from hitting the hands of… Continue Reading »