In an effort to chip away at Apple’s incredibly thin MacBook Air, Samsung hit Apple head on with their new Series 9 notebook. At 13.3-inches in size and less than 3lbs. in weight, it’s certainly up there with Apple in terms of lightness and size. In fact, Samsung actually claims that the 9-series notebook is thinner than Apple’s MacBook Air. (When will they learn, thinner isn’t always better?) As for the display specifics, it is LED-lit with 1,366...

Apple may continually receive media attention for it’s ever increasing 300,000+ strong App Store, but Android is making headway — and quick. Android Market tracker AndroLib.com now pegs the “official” number of available apps at a touch over 200,000. Google, meanwhile, hasn’t officially confirmed this new figure. Another thing to consider is that AndroLib’s quoted numbers have been wrong before. Further adding to the skepticism is an...

As multiple-PC households may know, keeping all of the software up to date across several machines can not only be time consuming, but costly as well. Being an operating system, Windows isn’t cheap in numbers. Though that isn’t quite the case with the Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack. Consisting of 3 individual licenses, at ~$42 per license it’s far and wide the best deal. In comparison, a single upgrade license of the same version of Windows 7 costs...

On Apple’s iOS platform, there are no less than half a dozen to a dozen mobile apps dedicated solely to multi-account IM apps (that are worth using). Some are better than others. My personal favorite has been Beejive. It looks good, performs well, and as cliche as it sounds — it just works. But maybe you don’t want or need support for as many accounts as Beejive supports and you don’t like the built-in chat functionality in the Facebook app. ...

A screenshot showcasing a new version of Flipboard that made waves around the web yesterday is reportedly fake, this according to the official Flipboard iPad developers. The new app was supposedly going to drop on on or near the January 6th launch date of Apple’s Mac App Store. In response to the alleged image, Flipboard developers told 9to5 Mac that while they are looking at a possible future home on OS X, they currently do not have any actual plans outside of the...