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SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone, SlingPlayer for Mac HD make debuts

Remember that proof-of-concept you saw way back in June of last year? You know, that one involving SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone? Here at Macworld , Sling Media is doing its darnedest to take the spotlight away …

MWSF: Apple introduces new 17-inch, unibody MacBook Pro

Apple has unveiled the new 17-inch MacBook Pro featuring an aluminum unibody enclosure, and a new built-in battery that purportedly delivers up to eight hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges for more than …

Pixar Animation pioneer Catmull earns Oscar

One of the digital wizards behind such cartoon smashes as “WALL-E,”"Ratatouille” and “Finding Nemo” is getting an Academy Award.Pixar Animation co-founder Ed Catmull is receiving the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, an …

The Easy Way to Make Your First Million

If you’re reading this, you’ve already gotten past the hardest part of investing in today’s markets. Plenty of people have simply turned off their computers, stopped reading financial news and brokerage statements, and taken to hoping that someone …

Apple cuts iTunes pricing, eases copy protection

Apple offered the record labels that flexibility on pricing as it got them to agree to sell all songs free of “digital rights management” (DRM) technology that limits people’s ability to copy songs or move them to multiple computers. By the end of …

Expert: Microsoft made $1.5B on ‘Vista Capable’ campaign

Microsoft earned more than US$1.5 billion from the sale of PCs marked as ” Vista Capable ” in the months leading up to the 2007 debut of Windows Vista, according to an expert’s estimate.

Google to release Picasa beta for Mac

Picasa for the Mac includes the ability to make collages and other core features.

What recession? CES has stuff worth seeing

Three-dimensional game glasses. Nvidia Corp., a leading maker of graphics chips for computers, will be touting $199 glasses that turn compatible monitors into three-dimensional displays, spicing up games like “Far Cry 2,” “Spore” and “Left 4 Dead …

Apple’s Steve Jobs will stay as CEO

That year, founded Next Inc., which made computers and software for educational institutions. Bought animation company Pixar from George Lucas in 1986 for $10 million. Returned to lead Apple in 1997, remained in charge of Pixar. Sold Pixar to Disney …

Recaps, previews of all 34 college football postseason games

But Utah doesn’t play in a BCS conference, so it gets no respect from the computers and the voters. Sadly, the BCS has decided that the two best teams in the country are Oklahoma and Florida, even though each has a loss. Oklahoma’s loss was to …