Short and sweet: Apple seems to have removed all references to Microsoft’s Virtual PC from its “Switch” webpages in recent days…
Month: August 2003
CCIA wants U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security to reconsider buying ‘insecure Microsoft software’
The US Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has sent a letter to Tom Ridge, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security…
iTunes tops online music rivals in consumer awareness
Consumer awareness of paid-for music sites is rapidly increasing, but the biggest challenge is still convincing consumers…
Is Microsoft really to blame for the worms and viruses?
Microsoft controls about 95 percent of the world’s PC market. It became the behemoth it is through some heavy-handed tactics…
CNN/Money Senior Writer on Apple: Wall Street analysts ‘just don’t get it’
Wall Street analysts have missed the boat on Apple’s big stock move. So why listen to them now?
Apple’s iChat AV, iSight ‘powerful’ but ‘lack of ubiquity’ could be blindspot
Every once in a while you get a taste of what the Internet would be like if it were left to a few private enterprises…
Shattering the Mac OS X ‘security through obscurity’ myth
The real reason no viruses exist for Mac OS X has little to do with its low market share… but rather its near-impenetrability…
BusinessWeek’s Haddad gets it wrong; thinks low market share spares Macs from viruses
Although “I was tethered to the World Wide Web, I was spared this ordeal. What saved me? These worms have no appetite for Macs…
Columnist: New Sobig worm due in September; affects only Windows ‘to the delight of Mac devotees eve
Another Sobig pain may be on way, [so] erect defenses now, or stop crying about the consequences…
Apple’s Mac OS X added to U.S. government list of supported platforms
Mac OS X and Linux have been added to the list of platforms that are officially supported by the United States government…
CNET commentator: Dell is tech’s most influential PC company
“Which is the most influential PC company in the world,” asks Michael Kanellos for CNET News.com?
Software Developer files suit against Apple over use of ‘Rendezvous’ name
Developer Tibco Software has filed suit against Apple for alleged trademark infringement,” reports Jonny Evans for MacWorld UK…
Anodized icon set features 10 new icons for Apple hardware
Anodized is a smart set of 10 “Aqualicious” icons, containing the latest…
‘iChat Streaming Icon’ freeware application hits version 1.0
This Cocoa app works together with iChat AV to change your static buddy icon into an animation…
Apple posts updated Backup 1.2.3 application online
Your computer stores valuable information that can be damaged or lost. The best way to protect your files from accidental loss…
‘The Big 4 Graphics Bundle’ offers big savings on Photoshop plug-ins
Three of the top Photoshop plug-in makers and one of the largest Stock imagery companies have partnered together…
Ars Technica’s ‘Mac Browser Smackdown’ gives nod to Apple’s Safari
Eric Bangeman conducts a “Macintosh Browser Smackdown” for Ars Technica that looks at nine Mac browser contenders…
Associated Press: Rio Nitrus can’t top Apple iPod
So far, no gadget has come very close in mimicking the style and simplicity of Apple Computer’s top-selling iPod digital music player…
CNET: Power Mac G5 may be fast but it doesn’t do Windows (VPC on G5 article)
Apple’s new Power Mac G5 may be the fastest Macintosh around, but it doesn’t work as well as its predecessors with Microsoft Windows software…
Microsoft confirms VirtualPC incompatible with Apple’s G5
Microsoft confirms that Virtual PC is not compatible with the new G5 Power Macs…
Syracuse Post-Standard: 3 percent is a false stat; Mac holds ‘10 to 12 percent of the market for PCs
The unfortunately monikered “Dr. Gizmo” writes for the Syracuse Post-Standard. We’ll overlook the nom de plume because Dr. Gizmo is a genius, we do believe!
FWB: There is no RealPC; it’s vaporware and it’s discontinued
Looks like Mac users are beholden to Microsoft for Windows emulation for the foreseeable future…
Thinking of switching to Mac to avoid viruses? The Boston Globe serves up strong dose of Mac FUD
For those Boston Globe readers thinking about switching to Macintosh from Windows in order to free themselves…
Apple shoots for Iowa school system; offers plan for one laptop per student
Students in Newton, Iowa might be about to get lucky…
TechNewsWorld: Apple Xserve ‘puts to shame many of the Linux distributions available’
We subjected Xserve’s Apache Web server to the same suite of tests using Spirent Communications’ WebAvalanche software that we used to stress Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition…
Apple adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks and exclusives to iTunes Music Store
Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to rock on weekly. Apple has announced new releases to the iTunes Music Store…
RUMOR: Apple preps Bluetooth-enabled wireless keyboard and mouse
Looks like Apple may be set to release a new Bluetooth ‘Apple Wireless Keyboard’ along with a new…
OWC cuts prices throughout its FireWire-based storage product lines
Other World Computing (OWC) today announced that it has dropped its prices up to 20 percent on every FireWire-based…
New Spanish language Mac news website debuts
The Editor of NoticiasMac.com recently launched a new website for all things Macintosh for Spanish language users…
Apple gearing up for Enterprise business?
Apple has formed a new Enterprise division aimed at courting corporate buyers…
Chicago Sun-Times columnist: Windows ‘many holes in its security’ but ‘none of my Macs have ever bee
Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same…
Steve Jobs to keynote Apple Expo Paris on September 16
Apple this morning announced that Jobs will deliver the keynote speech launching the twentieth Apple Expo Paris…
Is Mac OS X really inherently more secure than Windows?
Paul Thurrott writes for WinInformant.com, “After a summer of repeated virus and worm attacks, security experts and bored editors…
Three reasons why iChat AV-like videoconferencing is about to explode
Two-way audio and video communication, for decades the promise of comic strips like “Dick Tracy” and TV shows…
SlashDock updated to 2.3.6; get news in your Mac OS X Dock
SlashDock, now updated to version 2.3.6, is a simple Mac OS X Application that fetches and updates headlines…
NetNewsWire 1.04 released; get your online news more efficiently
Ranchero Software is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the award-winning NetNewsWire…
‘Troubleshooting Mac OS X’ e-book now available
The X Lab has published “Troubleshooting Mac OS X,” a new e-book dedicated to preventing or resolving…
Sick of worms and viruses? ‘Move to Mac OS X’ suggests Chicago Tribune columnist
How to avoid worms and viruses? Chicago Tribune columnist James Coates suggests…
Sick of worms and viruses? ‘Move to Mac OS X’ suggests Chicago Tribune columnist
How to avoid worms and viruses? Chicago Tribune columnist James Coates suggests…
Australian IT columnist: Apple wins ‘race to bring 64-bit computing to the desktop’
The first of Apple’s all-new G5 Power Macs should be in Australian stores this week, sources say, and it’s possible…
Toshiba to take on iPod for Windows; no Mac support offered with new player
Toshiba has announced a new hard drive-based digital music player that is both smaller and lighter than both its previous model and the competing IPod player from Apple Computer…
The Age columnist: Windows PC a man’s computer; Mac a very nice ladies computer
Given that all my [Windows] computers zip along like dead ballerinas, I should be annoyed that I have been burdened with such a flawed operating system…
