“The combination of “Stockholm Syndrome” and “cognitive dissonance” produces a victim…
Month: October 2003
Superintendent forcing move from Mac to Windows due to retire before effects hit home
Back on September 15th we reported that Pinellas County Florida schools were forcing the migration from Mac to Windows PC…
Q&A Columnist uses ‘security through obscurity’ myth to defend Windows vs. Mac on virus issue
It’s time for yet another columnist’s mea culpa on the order of David Pogue and David Zeiler. This time it’s Patrick Marshall…
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update (Build 6R73); fixes ethernet, battery status issues
Upon running Software Update in Mac OS X, users who have already installed Mac OS X 10.2.8 (build 6R65) will find the 560KB updater…
Computerworld: Power Mac G5 ‘will pretty much hand every other computer its proverbial hat’
It’s clear from two weeks of testing that Apple’s new Power Mac G5 dual 2-GHz machine is the fastest thing the company has ever produced…
Nearly 2,000 Apple iBooks ready to boot up Greene County, NC schools
Through a four-year lease agreement between Apple Computers and Greene County schools, about 1,800 students…
Bob Levitus: Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 speed ‘astonishing’
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Herald-Tribune columnist: Microsoft a ‘vampire’ that eats smaller company’s ‘brains’
It’s kind of funny how some people can arbitrarily apply the same principles to different people or organizations in different ways without feeling hypocritical at all…
Steve Jobs trouncing Steve Ballmer in Forbes CEO performance survey
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is still being rated on performance (monthly) in Forbes.com’s CEO Approval Ratings survey…
Former Apple CEO John Sculley: We blew it with HyperCard
Dawn Kawamoto has conducted a Q&A with former Apple CEO john Sculley for CNET News.com. Among the many interesting answers…
Apple releases DVD Studio Pro 2.0.2 Combined Update
The combined update includes DVD Studio Pro 2.0.1 and DVD Studio Pro 2.0.2 and is strongly recommended for all users of DVD Studio Pro 2…
Microsoft hit with class action lawsuit over virus crashes; suit calls Microsoft ‘global security ri
Microsoft Corp. faces a proposed class-action lawsuit in California based on the claim that its market-dominant software is vulnerable to viruses capable of triggering…
DC30 Xact Driver for Mac OS X updated to version 1.5
DC30 Xact Driver has been updated to version 1.5. The first Mac OS X driver for the miroMOTION DC30 series video capture cards…
Steve Jobs beats out Gates for #1 on Silicon.com Agenda Setters 2003 list
Embracing open source for Apple’s latest OS, the success of the iPod and proving, with iTunes, that there is a model for selling music online…
Long-distance phone calls via the Internet and Mac OS X
Imagine dumping your long-distance telephone provider because now your Mac can make all your long-distance calls…
iSpeak It updated; converts text into AAC track via iTunes for iPod use
iSpeak It has been updated to version 1.3.1. iSpeak will take any document or web page and convert it into an MP3/AAC track…
Mac user Rush Limbaugh caught up in dual controversies
Mac user Rush Limbaugh is having a heck of a week with dual controversies swirling throughout the web,TV, newspapers, and radio…
Apple posts help wanted ad for ‘Hot-Spot Evangelist’
Apple is looking to raise awareness of its leadesrhip position in the Wi-Fi arena with a U.K. job listing…
‘Mercura’ digital music service aims to be iTunes with a few twists
A digital music service [to be called “Mercora”] set up by the founder of McAfee hopes to create networks of people…
Suburban St. Louis school equips students, teachers with 125 Apple iBooks
This school year Hixson [Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis] became one of the first public schools in the region to provide students with laptops…
Napster 2.0 beta launch coming Oct. 9th; Apple mum on iTunes for Windows debut
Napster, the pioneering song-swap service that was shut down for copyright infringement, is coming back next week to face the music…
Columnist: Apple’s attention to ‘fit and finish and feel’ second-to-none
Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist, serves up a lovely little tribute to Apple’s attention to detail right down to the cardboard…
Columnist tries the ‘security through obscurity’ myth to defend Windows vs. Macs on virus front
It’s time for another columnist’s mea culpa on the order of David Pogue and David Zeiler. This time it’s Paul A. Gilster…
Stillwater, MN students get Apple iBooks under revised agreement
The Stillwater school district and Apple Computer have agreed to provide laptops to students at Oak-Land Junior High…
BusinessWeek columnist: IT ‘Macophobia’ abating; Apple’s opportunity to break into corporations is n
Finally, an opening for Apple in IT,” Alex Salkever writes for BusinessWeek. “Macs as Unix workstations…
Florida students patch 360 PCs in marathon session due to Blaster virus; their Macs unaffected
As the Blaster virus was poised to crash computers and clog networks around the globe, Dillard High School…
Pennsylvania school district’s PCs infected with virus; their Macs unaffected
A virus has infected all PC-based computers in Ringgold School District in Washington, PA…
iPod is key to Apple’s dominance of online digital music market
Robyn Weisman has posted part two of her report on Apple Computer for E-Commerce Times. The article is titled…
