Im a huge fan of the BBC iPlayer app for iPad. What with two young children and an addiction to Call of Duty, its not often I get time to sit down and watch some of my favorite TV shows — but having iPlayer on my iPad means I can catch up wherever I want, [...]

New MacBook Air models use a smaller, cheaper Thunderbolt controller that limits them to using a single external display while consuming less space on the logic board. A report by Anandtech outlines that larger form factor Macs, including the early 2011 MacBook Pros, iMac, and latest mid-2011 Mac mini use a full sized Thunderbolt controller [...]

A roadmap outlining Intel’s micro-architecture plans for the better part of the next decade has emerged online. According to this roadmap, Intel plans to continue their “tick-tock” product cycle in which every “tick” is a shrinking of the process technology used in the previous architecture whilst the “tock” is a new micro-architecture entirely. Keeping with [...]

Hacker group Anonymous and offshoot Lulzsec have started releasing secret information they claim to have stolen from servers of the CNAIPIC Italian cyber crime unit about the protection of critical national infrastructure. A tweet by AnyonymousIRC pointed to reports of the attack: ” #AntiSec strikes at Italy Government. Silent no more,” the tweet concluded. Links [...]

Taiwan’s HTC, which rose from obscure origins making phones for others to become one of the world’s top smartphone companies, is facing a test of its mettle as investor faith in its rapid growth wanes in an increasingly competitive market. The world number five has had a fairytale ride, with its shares more than tripling [...]