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Shawn King, host of the long-running Your Mac Life broadcast, put together an audio tribute to the memory of Steve Jobs: Wednesday was an awful day for the Macintosh Community – Thursday was not much better. As I wondered what to do and how to do it, I came up with this idea – have (…)

Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple, has died, according to a statement released by Apple’s Board of Directors: We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world (…)

RandomMaccess will be covering the Apple iPhone announcement as it happens. Check back here starting at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern Time. And look for RandomMaccess Publisher Chuck La Tournous on a special MacJury session reviewing and analyzing the announcements. Among the anticipated (OK, rumored) enhancements we’ve seen bouncing around the web: Voice Assistant, Dual (…)

Our good friends Jim Dalrymple and Peter Cohen announced a new, less cluttered and almost ad-free redesign of their popular Mac, tech (and occasional RIM-bashing) news site, The Loop. Also new is a membership plan for an enhanced RSS newsfeed: $3/month or $36/year. Jim writes: In April, I started looking at the site the way (…)

“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” Thirty-some years after he asked the question it’s clear Steve Jobs didn’t just change it once, but several times: computing, music, movies, mobile phones and now the tablet are all vastly different because of (…)

In a letter the the company’s board of directors and the “Apple Community,” Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be (…)

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, on the lawsuits being brought against the company over claims its Android phones infringe on patents, including Apple’s: The big news in the past year has been the explosion of Google Android handsets and this means our competitors are responding. Because they are not responding with innovation, they’re responding with (…)

The Wall Street Journal reports that bookseller Borders is giving up on its attempt to restructure under bankruptcy and will liquidate the remainder of its stores, as early as September. A few years ago I would have thought it would be Barnes & Noble, and not Borders that would be going under. But B&N had (…)

From a press release by Plasq: Our boss is away on vacation — so we’ve decided to go crazy! Starting at 12:00 am on July 15 and lasting until 12:00 am July 17th Comic Life for iPad will only cost USD $3.99! That’s right, for 48 hours you can get 50% off Comic Life for (…)

This is very cool. A college student’s project involves rigging a Kinect to a radio-controlled helicopter. The result? Controlling the copter by hand movements, which as it turns out, creates something that looks like it came straight out of Harry Potter. Indistinguishable from magic indeed. (via CrunchGear)