Psystar has had a rather lackluster showing in its attempt to sell unauthorized Mac clones—besides Apple suing the pants off the company, Psystar has also filed for bankruptcy after just a year in existence. Now, a new company in Los Angeles hopes to somehow escape the wrath of Apple Legal by—get this—opening a brick and mortar retail store. Quo Computer [...]

It was a busy week in the world of Microsoft. Let’s recap the top stories. Wondering how the Windows 7 release candidate UI compares to some of the earlier builds? Ars breaks down the differences in detail. And by detail, we mean extreme, OCD-like detail. If you’re wondering how the right-click menus differ, this is [...]

Some things are virtually mandatory. Whenever a new line of Intel processors comes out for the desktop, someone makes a laptop featuring it. This “laptop” weighs about ten pounds, has no battery life, and is loaded with the juiciest hardware anyone’s ever packed into a laptop. Core i7 launched a few months ago, and now, [...]

The new real-time communications platform will be federated, so anyone will be able to run their own Wave server. Read more …

Thief steals laptop, uses it to take photos of himself and then gets caught when the owner sees those on the Internet-based data backup service. Read more …

Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s director of global public policy, is reportedly leaving the search giant to be the deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration. Read more …