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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
"The lady doth protest too much," said one of Shakespeare's characters. So what are we to make of RSOL PC saying that even though its Jive Series PCs will run a modified version of Mac OS X, customers shouldn't do so?
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
An offhand remark by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer has sparked a fresh round of speculation that an Mac touch tablet will soon be announced. The idea that Apple could release such a device has fascinated commentators for years, but could this be the signal that it's finally about to arrive?
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
I've criticised Apple before for being slow to deliver patched versions of open source and other third-party software, but the latest example involving BIND, the software that provides DNS services, is hard to fathom.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Apple botched the .Mac to MobileMe transition and made a huge mistake by failing to keep customers informed about what was happening. It's now moving in the right direction, but the damage may already have been done.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
A 'state of the union' memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to all his employees makes it clear that the company still sees Apple and Google as threats, but for very different reasons. The defensive tone of the memo which mentions Microsoft's competitors by name is an unmistakable sign that the company is feeling the heat.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
An Australian TV station has finally made free "catch up" programming and other content available via the Internet at reasonable resolutions. Readers in the US and UK may wonder what the fuss is about, but the ABC's iView service comes as a breath of fresh air.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
Apple has released what appears to be a security update for its widely used iLife application suite, but aside from a vague reference to "security content" the company has yet to release details of what's been fixed. Users are still in the dark about the nature of the flaw or flaws, and whether any exploits are in circulation.
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
Another Mac clone maker, Open Tech, has arrived on the scene to provide Apple's lawyers with another target. Open Tech may be trying to stay out of trouble by avoiding Psystar's practice of pre-installing Mac OS X, but will that be enough to keep it out of court?
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
The rise of Apple's Macintosh family and Mac OS X shows no sign of waning as Apple sets an impressive new quarterly record for the three months ending June 2008 with almost 2.5 million Macs shipped. The good news didn't just come from the Mac business: iPod and iPhone sales weren't too shabby either.
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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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