*update #2* - We won't know until Apple actually tells us, but several outlets are reporting that the iPad Mini will come in as many as 16 different variations (black or white, internal storage and wifi/cellular) and could start as low as $250. Sources also report that Apple is likely to show off updates of current products like iMac, Mac Mini, a new 13" MacBook Pro w/ retina display and even an already updated iPad with the new Lightening connector introduced on the iPhone5. *update* this event is now official.  Invites were received this week for the Oct 23rd date. AllThingsD is reporting...


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Its here, and because Apple has now gone from a company capable of keeping its stuff under Area51-like wraps to about as leaky as the sieve you use in your kitchen to drain pasta, what we got yesterday was a little underwhelming. Not because it's not cool, but because we already knew the ending. We knew the iPhone5 was going to have a 4" screen, LTE and be lighter, faster and all of that.  But we didn't get any really cool new, "WOW" functionality that we didn't already know about.  And that's ok. The iPhone5 is the best iPhone ever. But "best iPhone doesn't equal "best phone". Should...


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Those pesky internet devils, AntiSec, announced in a posting on a hacker's site the following: During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of ”NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv” turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID),...


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Microsoft remains a wealthy and powerful company.  It no longer is the king of computing hill but it still is a tremendous force to be reckoned with and I have thought for a while that it simply had too much money and resources to sit and allow Apple and Google to leave it behind. So for the last several months Microsoft has been doing two things, continuously building up the successful user base of their XBOX360 console into more than just gamers, rather a total entertainment hub - and the previewing of Windows 8.  The new OS promises to be far more like the others and less like what you think...


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This week Apple had a tremendously successful WWDC despite the fact there was no new iPhone, iPad or the mysterious 'AppleTVBrainAbsorber' that surely will be revealed sometime this year. What in part made the presentation successful was the release of a new laptop so extreme in its design and specifications that even the most skeptical looked at it and at least raised an eyebrow of admiration.  Although it didn't take more than 48 hours for someone to tear one apart and find out that Apple had basically welded the thing together so that not only can you not upgrade the new "Super" MBP, even...


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Ever since Tom Cruise waved his tiny hands in the air controlling his holographic computer, geeks have wanted to also ditch their keyboard and mouse.  It seems that is closer than maybe imagined. Later this year a new device called "Leap" will become available and from the demo video that was released last week, looks to make controlling all aspects of your computer about as easy as a wave of the hand, or a point of a finger.  The video shows off several different uses for the device, from typing, to cursor control, to more advance uses.  There is even a moment where it shows off the accuracy...


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More than a half a million OSX operated Mac computers very well may have a virus called "Flashback" lurking in their innards.  The virus works to try and gather information about your browsing activities allowing hackers to sell all that collected data. A Russian anti-virus firm released this information last week and has been confirmed by other security firms in the following days.  The virus was first discovered in September 2011 disguised as an installer for Adobe Flash, but the current version is actually a self-installing virus using a weakness in previously un-patched Java vulnerability....


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One of the really interesting things to watch about the handheld segment of the electronics industry is the never ending battle to figure out what consumers want when it comes to screen size.  At one time there was a race to make the smallest, thinnest, lightest handheld devices possible.  That generally resulted in limited functionality and tiny, hard to read screens. Then tablets came back in vouge when Apple told the world it was ok to like them with the iPad and its 9.7" screen.  Of course there was immediate talk of smaller screened iPads and other manufactures began making tablets with...


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Yeah, starting (maybe) in February you can buy a Steve Jobs action figure.  From these pics its oddly lifelike in the resemblance, and even comes with 'real clothes' and three different sets of adjustable hands (a total JJ Arms homage!). It will cost you $99, but there is also a pretty good chance it will never go on sale as Apple and/or the Jobs estate is likely to block the sale since it's unauthorized.  That happened once before when a company called, MIC Gadget, tried to sell a far less similar looking action figure of Jobs.  In fact, the companies website, "InIcons", is down at the time...


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**UPDATE** PC Magazine has a complete walk-through and explanation of iTunes Match for your consumption After a promised launch of "late October", Apple today launched iTunes Match as part of a new download of iTunes (10.5.1). For $25 a year, iTunes Match will scan your library, give you access to stream and load any of those songs from the 18 million song iTunes library.  If one of your songs is not in that library, iTunes Match will upload that song and absorb it.  Therefore pretty much any song in your personal library, obtained legally or not, can be accessed by you on any iPad, iPhone...


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