New Kinect Star Wars demo shows game’s quirks, problems

Star Wars for Kinect on paper sounds like a home run: control a Jedi master with your body, and slash away with a light saber using the motion of your arms. But what about in practice? Does it live up to our hopes? Microsoft just showed off a live demo of the game at E3 and it was, well, wonky. The kid who was the live guinea pig on stage playing the game had to struggle to get the controls to bend to his will....

2 min · 383 words · Travis Harris

New Mac Flashback trojan horse malware pretends to be Flash installer

Evidence of a new bit of Mac malware has surfaced and it is taking the form of a trojan horse that disguises itself as the Flash installer,reports Intego. The security company reports that it has seen only one example of the malware so far, so don’t panic. The malware, called flashback.A, is transmitted by using a displaying a ‘Flash must be installed’ message when Mac users visit a site. When the link is clicked, they get the fake ‘Install Flash Player’ package which installs the trojan horse....

2 min · 353 words · Adam Williams

New MacBook Airs arriving next week, sources say

Although many sites have been predicting that new MacBook Air models, along with OS X Lion, would be arriving this week, we should expect to see them next week instead,reports All Things D. According to the site’s sources, Apple plans to ship new models of its lightweight MacBook Air next week. Once of its sources even referred to the rumors by saying that “the rumor sites are off by a week....

2 min · 370 words · Amanda Ross

New Macbook Airs coming on July 19th with Thunderbolt, Sandy Bridge

We can expect to see new Macbook Airs in mid-July, featuring Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge — and, of course, Lion. Both Lion and the new Airs will be available as of July 19th, sources connected to Apple havetold AppleNApps. TheMacbook Airis well overdue for a refresh, with its 2GB of RAM and various other features not up to scratch in the ultraportable industry anymore, particularly at Apple’s hiked up price points....

2 min · 252 words · Alyssa Hernandez

New MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge to be launched in June-July

According toDigitimes, the Taiwan-based supply chain for Apple products will begin shipments of 11.6″ and 13.3″ MacBook Air models for launch in June or July, which features the Sandy Bridge chipset and Thunderbolt interface. The new models are expected to come withThunderbolt, Intel’s ‘Lightpeak’ high-speed connection technology, along with the latest processor, Sandy Bridge, which would represent a significant upgrade for Apple’s MacBook Air, which until now is still using the previous generation Core 2 Duo processors....

1 min · 173 words · Sean Stephens
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