Electronic Arts (EA) has released an adaptation of the original Monopoly board game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $4.99 and is available for download from the App Store. This is the first iPhone and iPod touch adaptation of the original, classic board game in which you buy, sell and trade properties like Marvin [...]

Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) is offering U.S. college and graduate students a considerable discount if they purchase Office for Mac Business Edition. According to the company’s Mactopia Web page, students can get a 70 percent discount on the suite of applications. The business edition includes Entourage, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Messenger. “At the MacBU, we’re committed [...]

Virgin Mobile has recently added Mac compatibility to their Broadband2Go device, available without a contract for $99. I decided to try the device out to see how it holds up on my new MacBook – a late 2009 2.26GHz model running Mac OS X 10.6.2. I’m still waiting for AT&T Wireless to tell me how much [...]

Apple on Thursday released updates for users of Boot Camp and its Server Admin Tools, which are used to remotely administer a Snow Leopard server. According to Apple, the Boot Camp Drivers Update 2.2 addresses issues with the Apple trackpad and turns off the red digital audio port LED on laptop computers when it is not [...]

Open source Web browser, Camino, was updated on Wednesday, adding a vast amount of new features, according to MacUpdate. Changes in Camino 2.0 include improved tabbed browsing with a Tab Overview that displays a grid of tabs. Tabs in the new version can also be rearranged by dragging and dropping. Camino also now supports Google Safe Browsing, [...]

There are quite a few non-profit organizations that help impoverished nations, but none seem to have the grassroots approach of Nuru. This one-year old non-profit is using education to help communities, help themselves and they’re using technology to do it. Nuru was formed by Jake Harriman, a platoon commander in the Infantry and an elite unit [...]

Microsoft’s MacBU on Tuesday said it is offering a few deals on Office for Mac over the holidays. According to the company you can save: $20 on Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition $50 on Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition $40 on Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition Upgrade The holiday prices are effective November 17 [...]

Apple on Tuesday released the 2009 version of “Star Trek” directed by J.J. Abrams. In addition, the company also posted the iTunes Extras for the movie. The iTunes Extras for “Star Trek” feature two featurettes, international trailers, production art and poster galleries, and a secret code that unlocks additional content, according to the iTunes Store. The iTunes [...]

We all know that Microsoft blatantly copied the Apple retail store strategy, but Microsoft wasn’t content with stealing something that worked, they felt the need to add to it. So what did the brain trust in Redmond come up with? Line dancing. That’s it, let’s take a perfectly workable retail strategy and throw in line dancing. [...]

THQ has released Star Wars: Trench Run, a new game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $4.99 and is available for download from the App Store. Reliving the climactic battle sequence of the original Star Wars movie (Episode IV: A New Hope), Star Wars: Trench Run puts you in the cockpit of a Rebel [...]

Activision announced Monday the release of Call of Duty: World at War Zombies, a new 3D action game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $9.99 and is available for download from the App Store. Call of Duty: World at War Zombies features the original zombie map “Nacht der Untoten” (”Night of the Undead”), in [...]

I love EQs. That may sound strange to some of you, but a good EQ let’s you carve out space in the frequencies of your music, so everything has a nice comfortable place to live. A couple of weeks ago, Universal Audio released the Trident A-Range Classic Console EQ. Being an EQ lover, I decided to [...]

Oxford Dictionary released its Word of the Year for 2009 and this year’s winner is one many of us are familiar with: unfriend. unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. “It has both currency and potential longevity,” said Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary [...]

Blue Microphones recently added to its consumer line of mics by introducing a new product called Yeti. Yeti is a USB mic, but offers some high-end technology to improve the devices recording ability. For instance, Yeti is the first USB mic to offer Blue’s premium condenser capsules in a proprietary triple capsule array, the company said. Yeti [...]

Still waiting for AT&T Wireless to get its tethering act together for the iPhone? Virgin Mobile may have an affordable alternative in the form of its Mobile Broadband2Go service. It’s now available for Mac users, and doesn’t require a two-year commitment. When Virgin Mobile introduced Mobile Broadband in June, 2009, the company offered the service only [...]

It looks like the battle is finally over. Apple on Friday won its legal war against Mac clone-maker Psystar. Apple and Psystar both filed motions for summary judgment with the court, but Judge William Alsup agreed with Apple. In his decision, the judge sided solely with Apple and denied Psystar’s claims, according to the court documents [...]