Apple has reportedly scheduled overnights for Tuesday night in preparation for the OS X Lion launch. According to 9to5 Mac, Apple Store outlets are already equipped with hard drives to quickly install Lion on the show floor computers, and the stores have been sent new posters to outfit the walls with advertisements for the new operating system. Apple is also expected to refresh the MacBook Air in the imminent future. We’re expecting the new notebooks to pack the Thunderbolt I/O port in place of DisplayP...

Many were expecting Apple to launch its third generation of MacBook Air today, only to be left high and dry. Digits‘ All Things D‘s John Paczkowski now tells us it was never meant to be today. And it won’t happen tomorrow, either. Instead, Apple will launch it next week along with OS X Lion. The new MacBook Air is expected to sport Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors, Apple’s Thunderbolt port, backlit keyboard and 128 GB and 256 GB of flash storage. My second gen MacBook Air just...

We met up with Seagate last week to get a sneak peak at its brand new wireless mobile storage drive, the GoFlex Satellite. It’s a battery-powered external hard drive, though it’s not just a traditional drive — it can also stream any and all content wirelessly over Wi-Fi to any iOS or Android device, or even any Wi-Fi device with a browser. The premise is that since most mobile devices are limited in storage, you can load only what you really need on your iPad, for example, and have your entire m...

Apple has refreshed its iMac desktop computer range, pumping up the gigahertz with some hefty quad core processing muscle, and throwing in some extra specs as well. The new iMac range comes with quad-core Intel Core i5 processors, with users having the option to go for Core i7 processors upto 3.4 GHz. There are also new AMD Radeon HD graphics processors, which enables Apple in its typically understated manner to claim that “the new iMac has the most powerful graphics ever in an all-in-one desktop.”...

The detectives over at Android Police have found an interesting weakness in Skype for Android. The site has discovered that the popular VoIP chat client stores contact details, conversation logs, and a host of other information in a series of unprotected squlite3 databases. “Skype mistakenly left these files with improper permissions, allowing anyone or any app to read them,” reads the article. “Not only are they accessible, but completely unencrypted.” The vulnerability was initially ...

It has been a trend that we have been noticing over the past few years – Apple has been bumping up the specs of its notebooks, even while bringing down their prices. True to form, the fruity company from Cupertino has done it again in its latest refresh of the MacBook Pro range. Among the additions are “next generation dual and quad Core processors” (yep, that’s from the release), better graphics, higher resolution FaceTime HD cameras, and a new I/O technology called Thunderbolt that i...