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Philips' £299.99 dual iPhone turntable dock looks ridiculous

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Long gone are the days of oversized boomboxes and lugging cases of audio equipment just to get the music started. If you're okay with ostentatious gear, Philips' FWP3200D 300W Mini Hi-Fi System wants to make party rocking easier by providing a dual iPhone and iPod dock equipped with a pair of 2-inch tweeters and 5.25-inch woofers. A cross-fader and basic treble and bass controls are also...

MacBook Pro with Retina display gets full configuration options, even at base specification

Gallery Photo: New MacBook Pro with Retina Display hands-on pictures!

One of the early complaints with the Retina MacBook Pro was that it had an unusual limitation on how it could be configured in Apple's built-to-order store. That's changing today, however: the Apple Store is now offering expanded configuration options for the base specification machine. Previously, the $2,199 base model only had one configuration option: a $200 upgrade to 16GB of RAM. If you wanted to upgrade the amount of flash storage or if you wanted to configure the laptop with a faster processor you needed to start with the $2,799 model.

What does this all mean for prospective buyers of Apple's high-resolution machine? Well, you can now spend just $100 to upgrade the base model from a 2.3GHz Core i7 to a 2.6GHz processor. Or, if you're afraid of having merely 256GB on your primary drive you could spend $500 or $1000 to get a...

Flash storage, CPU, and RAM options limited no more

Watch Hulu Plus worldwide with an Apple TV and US iTunes account (update: requires US credit card)

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If you were excited to hear about Hulu Plus on Apple TV only to be reminded that it’s unavailable in your corner of the globe, we have good news. The Next Web reports that signing up for a US iTunes account and charging it with US iTunes cards will allow you to use the service from anywhere in the world. Since the monthly $7.99 fee for Hulu Plus on Apple TV is billed through iTunes directly, as far as the folks at Hulu are concerned you’re just another American watching The Walking Dead....


Nearly 40 iPhone and iPad prototypes revealed in Samsung trial

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Today at the Apple vs. Samsung trial, Apple designer Christopher Stringer took to the stand as Apple's first witness. In the course of his testimony about Apple's design process, he showed dozens of rejected iPhone and iPad designs — including some he actually showed in person. They give us yet another look at Apple's design process and reveal a bit about how the company forms its design aesthetic. Some of the newly revealed phones do...