Beleaguered Dell said Monday it hopes to save up to $3 billion over the next three years via cost cutting and employee layoffs…
Month: March 2008
Sony BMG accused of using pirated software
Sony BMG has been accused by PointDev company of having used Ideal Migration, the administration software…
Apple sued for 20-inch iMac ‘deception’
Apple deceptively marketed its new 20-inch iMac in a way that grossly inflated the capabilities of its monitor…
Outspring Mail for Mac released; email client with a ‘brain’
Outspring Mail observes the user’s actions and learns from them, suggesting…
Why IT is powerless to stop Apple iPhone onslaught
In less than a year, the iPhone has won the hearts of users, who speak of the combination cellphone, Internet device and music player with reverence…
Microsoft’s Open Office XML approved as international standard amidst voting irregularities claims?
Microsoft looks almost certain to have got its Office Open XML (OOXML) file format passed as an international standard but…
25-year PC vet dumps Microsoft’s Windows for Apple Mac, finds ‘digital heaven’
“I was an avid fan of PCs for 25 years. I was an ardent supporter of Microsoft Windows, even during the dark Me years…
Apple poised to become most powerful tech company
Apple is poised to become the most powerful company in technology and along the way it’ll definitely…
Apple named top brand in 2008 Brandjunkie Survey Results
The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world’s consumers, while Microsoft…
Analyst reiterates: Apple will sell 45 million iPhones in 2009
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted…
Bank of America expects next-gen 3G Apple iPhone launch in 2nd quarter
Apple Inc .is expected to launch a high-speed wireless version of iPhone in the second quarter…
Leaked RIM BlackBerry 9000 photos show derivative Apple iPhone exterior
It’s the same old, same old in an iPhone-inspired wrapper. And that should fail to inspire much confidence in RIM…
RIM’s BlackBerry 9000 shows how little they’ve learned from Apple’s iPhone
Uh oh, RIM shareholders. If this is all RIM’s got, you guys and gals might want to quickly add “former” ahead of that…
Mac OS X Scareware trojan ‘MacSweep from Imunizator’ tries to scam Mac users
SophosLabs has advised the Apple Macintosh community not to panic following the discovery of another Trojan horse Mac OS X platform…
Grand Opening of Apple Store, Grand Arcade, Cambridge, UK videos and photos
I’m just back from the Cambridge Apple Store which opened Thursday, March 27th along with the rest of the Grand Arcade…
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 PC hacked in security contest via undisclosed Adobe Flash vulnerability
Shane Macaulay from Security Objectives has won a Fujitsu U810 laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 after it was…
Apple releases Apple TV 2.0.1 Update
Apple TV 2.0.1 Update can be obtained by using Apple TV’s Settings…
Security cameras, audit helped solve iPhone thefts from Apple Store Rockingham Park
The two men accused of stealing 330 iPhones from the Mall at Rockingham Park (Salem, NH) did it all in one night…
Observers eye big June debut of Apple’s next-gen iPhone
Apple is gearing up for a big bump in sales of the next generation iPhone, if new production plans…
Apple Inc. places 6th in BusinessWeek 50 ranking
The companies that make up the BusinessWeek 50 represent the star performers in each of the 10 sectors…
Forbes’ Billionaire Comebacks: Apple CEO Steve Jobs
It was a stinging blow for Steve Jobs when a boardroom power struggle ousted him from Apple…
FlyTunes now offers over 160 channels of music and talk for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch
FlyTunes Inc. today announced that since its launch in January, it has tripled its channel offerings from 50 to over 160 channels…
Apple iTunes music subscription option might not be a bad idea
I’m coming around to the notion that an iTunes subscription model, alongside Apple’s existing system, could work quite well…
Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update to developers
Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update…
Report: Hon Hai secures order for Apple’s next-gen iPhone
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has secured an exclusive contract to assemble a more advanced version of…
PC Magazine reviews Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro (Penryn): ‘Editors’ Choice for mainstream laptops’
Performance enhancements alone should encourage first-generation MacBook Pro owners and frustrated Windows users to take the plunge…
Mac hacked in security contest via undisclosed Safari vulnerability
A team of security researchers has won $10,000 for hacking a MacBook Air in two minutes…
Gartner backtracks on report of additional 10 million 3G Apple iPhones
Technology research firm Gartner on Thursday tried to clear up reports that it had said Apple might be buying 10 million iPhones…
Apple looking to hire Handwriting Recognition Engineer
Apple has started hiring for a new Handwriting Recognition Engineer. The job description specifically…
Apple releases Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.3
Apple has released Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.3 which fixes several issues to improve the stability of Mac Pro…
ZDNet lays off George Ou
George Ou is saying goodbye to ZDNet, at the behest of ZDNet…
Apple releases Aperture 2.1 with powerful image editing open plug-in architecture
Apple today released Aperture 2.1, which introduces an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy…
PC Magazine: Apple’s iPhone, desktop and laptop PC killer
My generation’s concept of what it means to compute is so quaint and firmly rooted in the 20th century…
Report: Apple iPhone to launch in Mexico in June
Apple’s revolutionary iPhone finally has a launch date in Mexico, according to a source in the company…
Spend an evening in Santa Barbara with Woz
Tech guru and philanthropist Steve Wozniak helped shape modern technology when he single-handedly designed and built the Apple I and II, effectively inventing the personal computer and co-founding Apple Computer…
Apple releases iPhone SDK Beta 2
The second beta version of the iPhone SDK is now available and includes Interface Builder, a powerful tool…
Detroit Free Press: Apple’s Time Capsule can save your digital life
Our digital files are valuable beyond words. Some of us have thousands of photos on our hard drives, even more…
Werck BV releases Checkout 2.0 point of sale solution for Apple Macintosh
Werck BV today announced the international release of Checkout 2.0, the total point of sale solution for small to medium sized Mac-based stores..
Apple files for iPhone trademark in Canada
On December 21, 2007, Apple Inc. applied for trademark protection for “iPhone” in Canada with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office…
eMusic CEO: Contrary to USA Today report, we’re #2 in digital music sales, not Amazon
Yesterday morning I read with some surprise in USA Today that Amazon is No. 2 in digital music sales since opening nearly six months ago…
eMusic CEO: Contrary to USA Today report, we’re #2 in digital music sales, not Amazon
Yesterday morning I read with some surprise in USA Today that Amazon is No. 2 in digital music sales since opening nearly six months ago…
Nokia Siemens Networks doubles EDGE data speed
Nokia Siemens Networks today launched their downlink Dual Carrier EDGE software solution, ushering the first steps of EDGE Evolution…