Monday - June 15, 2009
Apple is making an impressively strong statement that it can survive Steve Jobs' departure. While I still don't think it has the magic that Steve Jobs brings to the table in terms of execution, it is actually doing better at the moment than when he was there and active. Palm just took a major shot at its base and missed, and Apple is going after it with blood in its eyes. In addition, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week, the company took aim at Windows 7.
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Friday - June 12, 2009
Google doesn't want you to use Bing to search the Web, and it would much rather see you using Gmail and Google Docs than Hotmail and MS Word. But if you want to use Google's Chrome browser, you have to run Microsoft's Windows operating system. Does the irony just kill you? Don't worry -- it's all temporary. Google has released versions of Chrome for the Mac and Linux platforms.
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Friday - June 12, 2009
The hottest news in the Apple-focused blogosphere this week all started with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. On Monday, the company -- sans still-on-hiatus CEO Steve Jobs -- announced the faster iPhone 3G S, multiple MacBook upgrades, and its next Mac OS X -- aka "Snow Leopard." All these announcments gave the online world plenty to talk about.
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Wednesday - June 10, 2009
In what looks to be a bid to penetrate the corporate environment, Apple has provided Snow Leopard, its upcoming version of Mac OS X, with the ability to sync with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. On Tuesday, Apple previewed Mac OS X 10.6, aka "Snow Leopard," at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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Tuesday - June 9, 2009
Apple used the first day of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference to focus on power, speed and price-slashing regarding its hot-selling iPhone. Monday's keynote speech and demonstrations introduced the new iPhone 3G S that is supposed to be faster in terms of download and connection speeds and more robust when it comes to juggling applications.
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Friday - May 15, 2009
Some of the biggest news in the Apple-focused blogosphere this week centers around Apple's upcoming June 8 Worldwide Developers Conference. There's the news, certainly, of what Apple said it'll deliver, and then there are the predictions of what might or might not show up -- a new iPhone, perhaps?
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Wednesday - May 13, 2009
With the release of Mac OS X 10.5.7 Wednesday, Apple appears to have acknowledged a raft of security issues surrounding its operating system. The latest updated version of the Mac operating system addresses bugs, improves support, and contains 47 security fixes, by the count of security software vendor Intego.
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Thursday - April 16, 2009
Ask a Mac OS X fan or a Windows fan what the difference is between the two operating systems, and the short answer might be something like, "The difference is, the one I use doesn't stink." That response may underscore the emotional pull an operating system has with a particular sort of computer user, but it is not very helpful for getting at the heart of the matter.
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Friday - February 6, 2009
While Apple has said that the next version of its Mac OS X operating system, dubbed "Snow Leopard," will be more of a performance-based release rather than a cornucopia of new features, the latest builds of the OS that Apple has released to developers indicate it may include new location-based tools that can determine a Mac's location, as well as new multi-touch capabilities.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Apple has released its latest update for Mac OS X, bringing the version numbers up to 10.5.6. Depending on a user's destination Mac, the update ranges from 190 MB or so up to a staggering 668 MB "combo" update, which tends to be used in organizations that plan to update multiple different Macs. The update includes dozens of general operating system fixes that enhance stability, compatibility and security.
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