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Flickr member flypigs has made this series of six cover mock-ups for the rumored forthcoming Steve Jobs autobiography. They're all pretty cool, and if you look at the notes for each photo you'll see that flypigs has put a little research into it. For Steve Jobs: The Man Who Makes It A Different Place.

Apple Inc. is celebrating its 10 billionth song download with a $10,000 iTunes gift card prize for the person who does the transaction.

A McAfee report reveals that more computers are hacked in China than anywhere else in the world. The hacked computers often are clustered into "botnets," a.k.a. battalions of corrupted computers commandeered to attack websites and spew spam. The growing presence of botnets is yet another sign of network insecurity...

A man in southern China was sentenced to 13 years in jail for running a pornographic Web site, a state news agency reported Sunday, amid a national crackdown on lewd online content. The court in the Guangdong province city of Jiangmen handed down the sentence to Huang Yizhong and fined him 100,000 yuan ($14,600), official News Agency said.

Like a Star Trek convention minus Leonard Nimoy, Macworld Conference and Expo 2010 kicks off Tuesday at San Francisco's Moscone Center with no official

In November 2009, Apple launched a feature dubbed iTunes Preview, which essentially enabled people to see what music is available on iTunes from their Web browser without the need to fire up – or install – the desktop software program. This morning, Apple activated the iTunes Preview feature for iPhone / iPod Touch applications in addition.

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the iPad is so stupid that the number of comedy possibilities is just... astounding.

The recording industry has asked for a 10-day extension as it ponders whether to accept a vastly reduced damage award in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset P2P case. In the meantime, the RIAA has offered to settle the case for $25,000.

Will the Apple tablet finally be unveiled? We're at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco (see above) patiently waiting to get inside and get this thing underway!