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Sony today introduced the Cyber-shot HX50V, a powerful new compact-form camera featuring 30x optical zoom coupled with a 20.4MP Exmor R CMOS image sensor. The device measures 4.4 inches wide, by 2.6 inches high, and 1.2 inches thick with a weight of 9….

Graphic manipulation software developer CS Odessa today announced free upgrades to the company’s ConceptDraw Pro business graphics and diagramming package. ConceptDraw Pro 9.4 features an enhanced startup wizard, new connectors technology and ConceptDr…

Storage solutions manufacturer Akitio today announced the release of the company’s new 256GB one bay, bus powered “Neutrino” Thunderbolt storage solution. Akitio’s new larger capacity device is a follow-up to the company’s successful 120GB SSD solution…

Gadget and computing accessory manufacturer Belkin has announced the new NetCam HD Wi-Fi Camera. The new wireless networking camera provides users with instantaneous access via a smartphone or tablet to pets, children and other family members at home i…

Apple on Tuesday updated its Apple Store app for iOS, adding an ability to send notifications to users when they are eligible for upgrade pricing on a new iPhone through their carrier. The new version (2.6, free) also adds notification support for chan…

Apple CEO Tim Cook has shed fresh light on Apple’s reluctance to build an iPhone with a larger display, while fueling speculation that such a device may be in the works. Answering an analyst question during the company’s fiscal Q2 financial conference …

Amidst generally positive numbers presented by Apple in its quarterly earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer presented some facts about the burgeoning smartphone market in China. When presented a question by an analyst q…

Speaking during a conference call following the company’s Q2 results, Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted that the company may have no major product launches until the fall. He refused to talk about the specific timing for particular devices, but told analysts t…

[Updated with discovery of code for 802.11ac support] Apple is now seeding a second beta of OS X 10.8.4 to developers, reports say. The build is labelled 12E30, and as before comes with no known issues. Developers are also once again being asked to foc…

A new poll by stock analysts Piper Jaffray shows very little change since last fall in the status of the iPhone as the coolest electronic device among teens. Nearly half of all of the 5,200 teenagers polled said they already owned an iPhone, a rise of …

Memory and storage purveyor Crucial today announced the availability of the Crucial M500 series of solid state drives (SSD). Featuring terabyte-class capacity, increased response times over previous models, and an advanced feature set, the Crucial M500…

Apple and Yahoo are discussing ways to bring more of Yahoo’s best features to Apple’s iOS platform, the Wall Street Journal reports. While the two companies are already working together on various projects — the default Stock and Weather apps on iOS d…

The popular author of a “mature” comic book known as SAGA says that Apple has banned the most recent issue from its apps — though not necessarily from its own iBookstore — over two small images of explicit gay sex. Despite what Brian K. Vaughan says …

According to Vudu, unknown perpetrators broke into the video streamer’s office on March 24 and stole a number of items, including hard drives that contained customer information with names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account acti…

[Updated with recovery information] Apple is reporting that “some users” are affected by an outage affecting both iMessage and FaceTime communications. Users on the Apple Support forums are claiming that both services and display a “waiting for verific…