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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two men accused of stealing computer chip blueprints - and trying to tap the Chinese government to help launch a startup built on the contraband - are becoming the first defendants charged with economic espionage to have their case heard by a jury....

The Washington Times: 'Just how important are computer operating systems, anyway?'

. California company posts $1.67bn (£1bn) quarterly profits. Sales near $10bn (£6bn)Apple surprised Wall Street today by announcing record-breaking sales and profits, as the Californian technology company continues to defy the recession.Thanks to the highest ever sales of its iphone handsets and Mac computers, Apple posted profit of $1.67bn (£1bn) for the last three months based on sales of almost $10bn (£6bn). That marks a 46% increase in profit over the same period last year, when the company made $1.14bn (£695m) on revenues of $7.9bn (£4.8bn).Chief executive Steve Jobs - who returned to the company earlier this summer after a six-month break to undergo a liver transplant - said he was 'thrilled' with the results and had more plans to wow customers in the near future.'We've got a very strong lineup for the holiday season and some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010,' he said. Those products are rumoured to include a new touchscreen computer that the company hopes can c

. California company posts $1.67bn (£1bn) quarterly profits. Sales near $10bn (£6bn)Apple surprised Wall Street today by announcing record-breaking sales and profits, as the Californian technology company continues to defy the recession.Thanks to the highest ever sales of its iphone handsets and Mac computers, Apple posted profit of $1.67bn (£1bn) for the last three months based on sales of almost $10bn (£6bn). That marks a 46% increase in profit over the same period last year, when the company made $1.14bn (£695m) on revenues of $7.9bn (£4.8bn).Chief executive Steve Jobs - who returned to the company earlier this summer after a six-month break to undergo a liver transplant - said he was 'thrilled' with the results and had more plans to wow customers in the near future.'We've got a very strong lineup for the holiday season and some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010,' he said. Those products are rumoured to include a new touchscreen computer that the company hopes can c

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A newly published Apple patent suggests the company is developing a feature for its MobileMe subscription service that would sync playback state across devices. The feature would allow users to begin watching or listening to a file on one device, such as a computer, and then switch to a separate device, like an iphone, with their current position within the media file synced automatically. Curiously, the patent covers both locally and remotely stored.

Apple said its net income rose 47 percent in the most recent quarter as more people bought Mac computers and gave in to the iphone craze.

Tens of millions of U.S. computers are loaded with scam security software that their owners may have paid for but which only makes the machines more vulnerable, according to a new Symantec report on cybercrime.

Gary McKinnon's battle against extradition to the U.S. on hacking charges took yet another twist today when British officials agreed to hear psychiatric evidence about McKinnon. McKinnon has been fighting extradition since his arrest in 2002 for hacking into U.S. military and NASA computers. - Gary McKinnon, a hacker charged with breaking into Pentagon computers, has had his extradition to the U.S. put on hold again as British officials weigh psychiatric evidence. According to the BBC, the British Home Office has agreed to consider the evidence about McKinnons medica...

BOSTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Rave Computer today unveiled two new aluminum fanless small form factor computer systems, one 'green' PC, designed specifically for low power commercial applications and one MIL-SPEC-810F for rugged environments. These products were revealed during the MILCOM 2009 exhibition.