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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
Yahoo!'s dynamic duo, Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang have lashed out at "odd couple" Microsoft and Carl Icahn in a lengthy open letter to shareholders, accusing the pair of threatening to destroy shareholder value.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
Apple has pulled out all the stops and come out swinging against Mac cloner Psystar, asking for all profits made from its clones and a total recall of all Psystar clones sold into the market. The Cupertino company is making a total of ten claims against the Miami based system builder, covering copyright, trademark and trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, breach of contract, and unfair competition.
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
Much of the discussion surrounding Mac security surrounds malware - how prevalent it is on the platform, and how resistant the operating system is to its introduction. But physical theft or loss may be a bigger risk, especially for notebooks, so Sophos is providing ten tips to help protect your data in those circumstances.
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
Apple has finally taken legal steps to shut down Mac cloner Psystar, the company that brazenly offered consumers products running the Mac OS X operating system. The question on everyone's lips is why has it taken litigious Apple so long?
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
Apple's MobileMe (email, web publishing, data sharing and syncing, and remote-control) service came to life over the weekend following an uncomfortable transition from its predecessor, .Mac. In particular, going to the old www.mac.com home page now correctly redirects to www.me.com instead of yielding an 'under maintenance' message.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
Apple's rebranding of its .Mac Internet service to MobileMe is throwing users into disarray as the service has been offline for prolonged periods. Users find that some services still work while others aren't operational at all.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Segway's chief technology officer is reportedly leaving to join Apple. What would Apple want with a vehicle designer?
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
My experience with Mac OS X updates has been generally positive, with the exception of 10.2.8 which caused a major graphics problem with the 'Lombard' PowerBook G3. But updating to 10.5.4 didn't go quite as smoothly as I've become accustomed.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
One of the delights of Mac OS X is the way Spotlight provides rapid (at least on modern hardware) desktop searching. But what if some of your documents are 'in the cloud'?
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
Microsoft has finally released Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 after a protracted beta period. Used to remotely control a Windows system across a network from a Mac, a key feature of the new release is support for Network Level Authentication as used in Vista.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
Eight years after the world thought it had seen the back of the Y2K bug, Microsoft software is causing Mac users to lose data because of century-related date issues. The problem has arisen in Entourage 2008, the email and calendaring application of Office 2008.
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