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Technology Newsday > Business Published: December 19, 2013 9:19 AM By BLOOMBERG NEWS Photo credit: Apple | The aluminum enclosure that comprises the Mac Pro is 9.9-inches tall and one-eighth the volume of the previous generation. Apple Inc. is taking orders today for the new Mac Pro personal...

December 19, 2013 10:04am EST Secret Santa exchanges usually leave participants with a pumpkin spice-scented candle, a cookie in a jar, or, if you're lucky, a pair of touch-screen gloves, wrapped haphazardly by a co-worker or friend. So Reddit user NY1227 likely didn't expect much when she...

Customers, including Bizo, MediaMath, and Supercell, used the Amazon Kinesis limited preview to power real-time streaming data applications SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 17, 2013-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that Amazon Kinesis, a...

Hackers broke into The Washington Post’s servers and gained access to employee user names and passwords, marking at least the third intrusion over the past three years, company officials said Wednesday. The extent of the loss of company data was not immediately clear, although officials planned...

On a brief return to Britain, Sony Computer Entertainment’s president and chief executive Andrew House is full of bonhomie and bullishness. We meet at Sony's Soho HQ, on the verge of the UK launch. Any nervousness there may have been has apparently vanished thanks to the success of the machine’s...

The new workstation costs $3,000 for the basic but still powerful model, but upgrading the processor, storage, and graphics quickly raises the price. The Mac Pro is a compact cylinder, but its design won't be so sleek after people plug in power cords, video capture hardware, external storage...

Shortly after LG issued a press release that it would unveil the world’s first 105-inch UHD LED TV at CES 2014, Samsung announced that it would have the largest and most curved UHD TV at the expo. Both TVs boast a resolution of 5120×2160 and a 21:9 aspect ratio, and neither TV has an expected...

Facebook could have made it easy for advertisers to port their TV commercials or online pre-rolls into its new video ad unit. Instead, it’s spawned a fresh video ad format designed to minimize disruption to the user experience. While advertisers might be a bit annoyed they can’t reuse existing...

Honda will raise the curtain on an all-new 2015 Honda Fit and Acura TLX concept luxury sedan next month at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The third-generation Fit marks a major effort by the Japanese manufacturer to make the popular subcompact its most important...

As Microsoft preps a new version of its mobile OS, a few details have emerged, including improved notifications and a voice assistant.Microsoft has kept a tight lid on new features planned for Windows Phone 8.1, but a few have managed to sneak out. The system-level update, expected to arrive...

The new workstation costs $3,000 for the basic but still powerful model, but upgrading the processor, storage, and graphics quickly raises the price. The Mac Pro is built in the US. (Credit: Apple) The $3,000 entry-level configuration of Apple's new Mac Pro is nothing to sneeze at -- but if...

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Apple will take orders Thursday for the new Mac Pro personal computer, which is being built in Texas with components made domestically as part of Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook's $100 million "made in the USA" push. "We have begun manufacturing the Mac Pro in Austin," Cook wrote in a posting...

Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed in an interview with ZDNet that the company felt forced to manufacture its own Surface line of tablets to better compete against the iPad. Ballmer also said that the company’s decision to make its own hardware gave it the best shot to keep pace...

There's no shortage of apps and watchfaces specially made for the Pebble smartwatch, but the experience of finding your favorites can be a rather frustrating (and confusing) one. Current users have to hunt through a litany of apps and third-party websites like mypebblefaces.com to customize (or...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google may be gearing up to build robots that resemble props in science-fiction movies as the ambitious internet company expands into yet another technological frontier.To gather the expertise and research it needs, Google has purchased eight companies that specialize in robotics...

Rosalina, ATVs, and hovering UFOs all make an appearance. We first heard that the venerable Mario Kart franchise was getting its eighth numbered iteration back at E3. We saw new vehicles, like the hovering UFOs and rugged ATVs, as they soared through various environments using the occasional...

Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:01am IST Link this Share this By Warren Strobel and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A White House-appointed panel on Wednesday proposed curbs on some key National Security Agency surveillance operations, recommending limits on a program to collect...

Just don't call it a trash can.  Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Digital Edition Months after it was first unveiled, the cylindrical Mac Pro, a high-powered and high-priced desktop...

Xbox's media-streaming apps bring video, TV shows, and music Windows Phone. Both are available for download today. by Sarah Mitroff December 18, 2013 10:04 AM PST Xbox Video for Windows Phone (Credit: Microsoft) Two new Xbox media apps hit the Windows Phone store today: Xbox Video and...