TOP TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Revealing how Steve Jobs runs Apple is like exposing the secrets behind a magician’s tricks. And several of the magician’s “assistants” just broke their code of silence.

In a lengthy feature titled “Inside Apple,” Fortune magazine’s editor at large Adam Lashinsky paints a clear picture of what it’s like to work at Apple, based on dozens of interviews with current or former employees at the company.

Intel has announced the world’s first 3-D microprocessor transistor for mass production.

It’s a major breakthrough for the semiconductor industry, which has been trying for years to get the microscopic semiconductor structures that make up computer chips into the third dimension.

“This transition to 3-D devices will help us continue Moore’s Law,” said Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr at the news conference Wednesday.

RIM has just announced the BlackBerry Bold Touch. The new handset comes in two versions: the 9900 is the GSM 3G and 4G version, and the 9930 is the CDMA world-phone, with quad-band GSM and and dual-band UMTS.

With those various confusions dealt with, let’s take a peek inside. The Bold Touch runs on a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, has 768MB RAM (and storage of 8GB to 32GB), a 5MP camera (which shoots 720p video), a 2.8-inch, 640 x 480 (287 ppi) display, all crammed into a pedestrian, thin-ish, corporate-friendly shell.

If you lose your phone or your computer, there’s a fair chance you’ll get it back if you’re using some kind of tracking software. As we have seen before, Apple’s Find my iPhone service has rescued more than one lost phone. But what about your other gadgets?

If your camera is stolen, you now have at least a chance of finding it thanks to the Stolen Camera Finder by Matt Burns.

Yet another major electronics manufacturer may throw its hat into the tablet ring this summer according to a recent report.

Chinese PC manufacturing giant Lenovo has plans to debut its Android 3.0-powered ThinkPad Tablet come June, according to a leaked Powerpoint presentation obtained by tech reporter Joanna Stern.

As the document says, the device will be powered by Honeycomb, the tablet-optimized version of Android. It will run on the Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, a chip which has virtually reached mobile-industry standard status after being featured on myriad phones and tablets debuted in 2011.

Remember the iCade? Sure you do. It was ThinkGeek’s 2010 April Fool gag, a tiny tabletop arcade machine which used the iPad as its screen. Now, just over a year later, the iCade is real, and can be pre-ordered for $100 at ThinkGeek’s store.

Along with the price drop (the joke unit was $150) there have been some changes to the imaginary specs. Now the iCade connects to the iPad by Bluetooth, not through the dock connector. It also has more buttons — eight instead of just two — but it keeps a coin slot so you can feed it with quarters.

But best of all is that ThinkGeek has teamed up with Atari. The legendary game company recently released Atari’s Greatest Hits, which brings 100 classic titles to the iPhone and iPad.

Picture a classic software startup. Two people sit in some dark room, faces lit by their computer screens. From these humble beginnings, the world can change, we tell ourselves. And it has been true often enough to become a part of Silicon Valley’s mythology.

Now picture a nuclear reactor. Hundreds of people build it. Dozens operate it.

The Brazilian police force is getting a little bit Terminator on its citizens. Well, on its criminals at least.

No, they haven’t built a humanoid killer, they’ve just taken a cue from the augmented, analytical sight capabilities of cinema cyborgs. In the next few weeks, Brazilian police will begin testing pairs of “RoboCop” glasses, which can identify a criminal’s face in a crowd of people.

If people want to know everything about you, they need look no further than your smartphone. It contains a host of your personal information and leaves a trail of digital footprints everywhere you go.

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed last week alleges that Apple and a handful of app makers are invading user privacy by accessing personal data from customers’ smartphones without permission and sharing it with third-party advertisers.

If you ever thought that it might be practical to take the Power Loader from Aliens, put it in your kitchen and use it as a fruit bowl, then we may just have the perfect iPhone stand for you. It’s called the RokForm RokStand and it is possibly the most over-engineered accessory ever made.

Made from CNC-machined aluminum with rubber rings to cosset the iPhone within, the specs contain quite ridiculous bullet points.