Apple has bought Israel's Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for up to $500m (£319m), the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday, following almost a week of speculation surrounding the companies. The newspaper said Anobit's management was in the process of gathering its staff to formally announce the acquisition by
Read MoreCould you recommend a netbook or slate computer that has built in GPS for offshore navigation? The boat already has a Garmin GPS giving position and speed only: no charting. I need the PC to run OpenCPN with a selection of nautical charts, but also have a good battery life
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New video footage has been released for the first time of the moment Guardian editors destroyed computers used to store top-secret documents leaked by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Under the watchful gaze of two technicians from the British government spy agency GCHQ, the journalists took angle-grinders and drills to the
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I am a DJ making tentative steps into digital music. I have a MacBook, which I will incorporate into my sets. How can I ensure music CDs are imported at the highest possible quality? Also, what is the difference between a music file of 320kbps and a WAV file? Stuart Eve For
Read MoreThe latest version of Apple’s operating system for desktop and laptop computers, Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”, encourages users to turn on the company’s FileVault disk encryption, as the company hardens its pro-security stance. The decision to encourage encryption, so that users must opt out – rather than opting in as
Read MoreFor the past half decade, the technology industry has been racing to build better cameras into the hardware we use every day. Yet the surveillance age has inspired an odd cottage industry battling against this trend: a glut of cheap stickers and branded plastic slides designed to cover up the front-facing
Read MoreIn 2007, I wrote a column entitled “I hate Macs”. I call it a column. It was actually an unbroken 900-word anti-Apple screed. Macs, I claimed, were “glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy-cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work.” In 2009, I complained again: “The better-designed
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Of the 11 Heineken Cups thus far, English golf equipment have gained 5. Not a bad return, specifically on account that they have got participated in most effective nine of these campaigns, having boycotted the opposition in two seasons, 1995-ninety six and 1998-99. Boycotting the Heineken Cup is again on subsequent
Read MoreWithin the past few weeks, any attempt to use my laptop to watch streaming media generates buffering problems. This was never an issue previously. I have checked the download speed of my broadband supplier (Virgin) and it is showing 2.7Mbps, as opposed to the advertised “up to 10”. I have
Read MoreShoulders shaking and wiping tears from his eyes, the Apple MacBook engineer with a thick moustache screeches with laughter. He straightens up and slaps a table. “Wait! It gets better!” he cries. “It was so thin the battery wouldn’t fit inside! That’s all our customers need! I got promoted!” Move over
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