Si tu me montres le tiens, je te montre le mien ! Dans un renvoi d’ascenseur prévisible, l’équipe juridique de Samsung a demandé à Apple de lui remettre la version de la prochaine génération de l’iPhone et iPad pour s’assurer que ses propres dispositifs futurs ne seront pas soumis à la même infraction d’imitation (dans le cadre de la poursuite exécutée par Apple le mois dernier).

Les rumeurs allaient bon train sur les nouveaux produits Apple qui seraient présentés la semaine prochaine lors de la WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) de la firme à la pomme. Eh bien, Alors que ce n’est pas franchement l’habitude de la maison, un communiqué de presse officiel annonçant à l’avance certains produits vient de tomber. iOS 5, OS X Lion sont donc au programme ainsi que l’énigmatique  « iCloud ».

Apple has confirmed maybe the worst kept secret in Silicon Valley: it’s been working on a cloud service, and will announce it at the June 6 Worldwide Developers Conference.

So now we know annual developer’s conference will unveil “iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering,” but we don’t know yet what it is, or what exactly will reside at the domain name it may have bought for $4.5 million in April.

Welcome to the second installment of our list of top SSDs at at any given price point. This month we see the announcement of several new drives from OCZ, availability of Crucial's m4 lineup (at expected prices), and the emergence of new SF-2200 options.

What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?

I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.

2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.

“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”

That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.