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Thu, 20 Jun 2013

How to extract audio from movie files

Christopher Breen

A reader who prefers to remain anonymous has some movies that he'd like to turn into an entirely different kind of media file. He writes:

Thu, 20 Jun 2013

Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions hit 700,000

Jackie Dove

Despite customer outcry over Adobe's switch from Creative Suite software in a box to Creative Cloud software as a service, the company reports that it added 221,000 paid Creative Cloud customers to its roster in the second quarter of 2013 for a total of 700,000 subscribers to date.

Thu, 20 Jun 2013

5 products Facebook should announce instead of Instagram video

Caitlin McGarry

Facebook's coffee-stained paper invitation to a Thursday announcement in Menlo Park promised a new product, which by all accounts will be Vine-like videos for Instagram. Not exactly new, but Facebook is clearly taking aim at Twitter.

Thu, 20 Jun 2013

Report: Microsoft and Nokia talked acquisition

Zach Miners

Microsoft and cellphone maker Nokia were in advanced talks about an acquisition of the Finnish company's device business, but the discussions have broken down, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Thu, 20 Jun 2013

Microsoft reverses policies on Xbox One rentals, online check-ins, and region restrictions

Hayden Dingman and Alex Cocilova

If you balked at the news that the Xbox One would require a constant online connection or griped about restrictive policies toward used games on the forthcoming console, Microsoft has heard your complaints. On Wednesday, the company changed course on online connectivity and used games, announcing new policies for the Xbox One.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013

Apple end-to-end encryption far from bulletproof

Antone Gonsalves

Apple won't provide experts with details of encryption architecture, so what it means by 'cannot decrypt"' data is unclear, expert says

Wed, 19 Jun 2013

HBO, ESPN, Sky News, Crunchyroll and Qello arrive on Apple TV, BBC iPlayer, 4OD coming soon?

Ashleigh Allsopp

Apple has announced several new additions to its Apple TV, including HBO Go and WatchESPN, sparking speculation that on-demand services such as BBC iPlayer could be coming to the Apple TV soon.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013

WATCH: Rare Steve Jobs video from 1994 emerges

Ashleigh Allsopp

A rare video of Steve Jobs from 1994 has appeared online this week, showing the Apple co-founder speaking about his legacy and then fast moving nature of technology.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013

Apple adds Kings of Leon, Paramore to iTunes Festival 2013 lineup

Ashleigh Allsopp

Several new artists have been added to the iTunes Festival 2013 lineup, including Kings of Leon and Paramore, Apple announced today.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013

Facebook set to beef up Instagram with video?

Sharon Gaudin

Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013

Start-up tackles advanced persistent threats on Microsoft, Apple computers

Ellen Messmer

Start-up CrowdStrike today made available its first product, called Falcon, designed to detect and block stealthy infiltrations of Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh-based endpoint machines and servers.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013

Four ways iTunes Radio can live up to expectations

Christopher Breen

It's official: iTunes Radio (and not iRadio as we once thought) is on its way. Here's what we'd like to see iTunes Radio offer.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013

5 social media deals that make Waze and Tumblr seem like steals

Caitlin McGarry

Google buys Waze. Yahoo buys Tumblr. Facebook buys Instagram.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013

Apple's big-screen TV was a no-show at WWDC, but analysts say it's coming soon

Mark Sullivan

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference has never been a venue for truly big hardware surprises. In recent years, it has become the launch pad for iOS updates and Mac computer refreshes, and not much else. But given Tim Cook's late May musings about Apple's stake in TV-related technology - he told a D11 Conference audience there's "an intense interest" in this area - one could have easily harbored hopes that Apple would stun Monday's WWDC audience with a big-screen Apple TV.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013

Apple video showcases its design philosophy

Digital Arts Staff

The video features some elegantly fragile motion graphics that, while monochrome, tap into the marks and shapes of the new iOS 7.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013

Will your creative software run on the Mac Pro 2013?

Neil Bennett

Featuring a radical design, new CPUs and – especially – new graphics chips, the likes of Adobe, Autodesk and The Foundry will need to update some of their tools for the new Mac Pro.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013

Apple's events move on, and so does the company

Jason Snell

In the technology world, being complacent is deadly. Something that's groundbreaking, revolutionary, or classic is inevitably tired and creaky just a few years later. As Steve Jobs himself preached, staying relevant is always about moving forward. At Apple's 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) we saw Apple itself take a revolutionary product that's by many standards still the best in the industry, and change it into something new.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013

Google wins over Waze, says the maps app will remain independent - for now

Caitlin McGarry

The deal is done. After weeks of rumors, Google on Tuesday announced that it has snapped up Waze, the crowdsourced mapping app for iOS and Android.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013

Yahoo spruces up its search results display

Jared Newman

Changes at Yahoo keep on coming and this time, there's a new look for Yahoo Search.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013

Google asks DOJ if it can release details on government data requests

Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI director Robert Mueller seeking permission to disclose specific details about the information it is required to provide to the government in response to requests for user data from U.S. intelligence agencies.

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