Apple has traditionally debuted new iPhones at its annual software developers conference, but this year's event in June will be 100 percent software news, according to a report.
Remember how we were all freaking out on New Year's Eve, 1999, convinced that the world as we know it would end -- at the hands of machines, of course?
Google this week unveiled its Chrome Web Store, which aims to do for the Web what Apple's App Store did for mobile devices: It provides a place to explore and "install" Web-based applications.
Can lightning strike twice for Apple in its quest for world software domination? Using the same system it pioneered on the iPhone, Apple is trying to bring its software-distribution system to users of its Mac OS.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday rolled out Mac OS X Lion, the computer company's latest operating system.
Apple has announced that CEO Steve Jobs will be emceeing the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7 in San Francisco.
Snow Leopard, the highly anticipated new operating system for the Mac, will be released ahead of schedule Friday, Apple announced Monday.
Is it safe and secure to keep my calendar online? What's the difference between a Google calendar, an Exchange calendar, and an intranet calendar?
Apple on Tuesday announced the release of a public beta Safari 4, promising a much faster browser with improved navigation and searching.
Consider, if you will, the humble coffee mug - that's right, the one with the wacky slogan on it that you might be drinking from right now. By bringing a mug to work and using it, instead of chugging your caffeine fix from disposable cups, you can help reduce the 2 million tons of paper and plastic cups and plates tossed out in the U.S. each year.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is Apple's first major operating system upgrade since Tiger more than two years ago. The changes include more than 300 new features, which, while not earth-shattering, further streamline the experience of using a Mac.
My branding and fashion PR consultancy, GTK Marketing Group, is constantly scrambling to get out mailings for premieres and launches. Our system is workable but a bit clunky: We keep mailing lists on Excel spreadsheets and print address labels on an ordinary inkjet printer using free mail-merge software that comes with our Avery labels from Staples. We then use the Postal Service's Click-N-Ship online-postage system (usps.com) to print a separate postage label for each invitation.
Dave Gerardi, a magazine editor and freelance writer in the suburbs of New York City, was trying to catch up on some work at home. Suddenly his computer screen froze. Thinking the glitch was routine, he restarted the machine.
Most technologies these days are spawned in the consumer world and laboriously swim upstream into the heavily dammed networks of corporations. But widgets--tiny, downloadable applications that display data from the Internet on websites or your PC's desktop--could make that leap in record time.
The browser is the new OS. Yes, we've heard this before, and if you're quietly groaning right about now, I can understand why.
In the past, H&R Block TaxCut has been strong on information but less user-friendly than Intuit TurboTax.
The lines between the Mac OS and Windows are starting to blur. And that portends major changes going forward in the world of PCs. At MacWorld, a little company called Parallels won awards for the latest version of its hit product, which enables you to run both operating systems at the same time on a Macintosh. It's a major breakthrough.
Apple computers have long been prized for being virus-free. But as more people use Apple products, experts say the company is increasingly becoming a target for cyber pranksters and criminals writing viruses and other forms of malware.
My branding and fashion PR consultancy, GTK Marketing Group, is constantly scrambling to get out mailings for premieres and launches. Our system is workable but a bit clunky: We keep mailing lists ...
Podblasting
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Michael Arrington at TechCrunch notes this morning that popular "quasi-legal" MP3 download service AllofMP3.com went down over the weekend, and has not yet come back up. The company operates under the dubious aegis of outfits like the "Russian Multimedia and Internet Society" which, reports MP3.com, grant it the right "to sell any song in any format without having to obtain the permission of copyright holders." Operating in a legal gray area, the site has sold music for as little as 11 cents a song, prices which have driven enormous traffic. In the U.K. it is second only to iTunes.
Since 1999, Apple has been a loyal customer of Akamai, the Cambridge, Mass.-based technology outfit whose content-delivery services speeds Apple's software and music downloads. As Apple preps an online movie store, however, it's looking at even heftier bandwidth bills. So rumor has it that it's looking at putting file-sharing technology into an upcoming version of its Mac OS X operating system. If Mac OS Rumors' report pans out, Apple would have Mac users download files from other Macs rather than from Apple's servers, saving Apple money. To encourage users to participate, the proposed scheme could reward them with credit towards iTunes purchases.
First Apple announced a partnership with Intel. Now it's running Windows. Talk about a 30th birthday surprise.
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its new Boot Camp software, which will enable Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP.
Ever since Apple declared it was switching to Intel chips last year, Mac fans have been looking forward to the prospect of running both Windows and Mac OS X on the same machine. But those who have tried to load Windows onto a Mac have kept running into unexpected technical roadblocks. Apple's stance on the matter? "We won't stop you, but we won't help you."
You can already buy just about anything from Amazon.com. But now, TechCrunch reports, you can buy space on Amazon.com's servers. Unlike Google's Gdrive, though, Amazon's online-storage offering isn't meant for consumers. Amazon, whose servers already host terabytes of book-cover images, music-CD reviews and sales data, is offering online storage space to companies who want to store their own data. The new service could make it easier for startups to build new services without worrying about buying and maintaining their own storage servers, writes former Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Parekh on his blog.
Change is inevitable, and that's generally a good thing. Granted, you won't find many dinosaurs happy about the sudden climate change 65.5 million years ago, but in the grand scheme of things the w...
Apple surprised everyone recently by delivering Intel-based Mac computers six months ahead of schedule. The shift, after a decade of Macs based on IBM and Freescale (ne Motorola) processors, raises the possibility of Macintoshes running the Microsoft Windows operating system, either instead of or along with Apple's Mac OS X. Despite increased risks of security holes, viruses, and other familiar Windows vulnerabilities, some Mac users want to run Windows programs from time to time (there are more games available for Windows, for example). But because of the way Apple implemented the Intel chips, you can't just boot up the Mac with Windows XP. Furthermore, the current version of Virtual PC for Mac, a Microsoft program that allows Windows to run in a window inside Mac OS X, does not work with the initial batch of Intel-based machines. Microsoft says it is working with Apple to find a solution, but stopped short of promising an Intel-based version of Virtual PC. Meanwhile, Apple says it will not stand in the ...
An executive at the No. 2 search engine said it wasn't her company's goal to be No. 1. Instead, said Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker, she'd be happy if Yahoo maintained its market share and improved the revenue it gets out of every search. One blogger's reaction: That's it, I am no longer using Yahoo Search.
It's almost comical, really. More than 200,000 gadget freaks and assorted hangers-on flocked last week to Las Vegas to see the latest in home electronics. Untold bad hot dogs were eaten. Miles of flat-panel TVs were displayed. Microsoft, Yahoo, Intel, Google and the like slugged it out for snazziest future product offering honors.
Apple said last summer that it is switching to Intel microprocessors from the IBM and Motorola PowerPC chips that have powered the Mac for the past decade.
PHOENIX (Komando.com) - If you're like millions of other people, you own an Apple iPod. And you may chafe at the perception that you must use Apple's music files on the iPod. Well, that perception is wrong. You can load music from your CDs or other sources on the iPod.
ONE OF MY FIRST illicit thrills was staying up past bedtime and tuning the AM radio to a station broadcasting only at night from hundreds of miles away across the Mexican frontier, one that played ...
Apple's announcement last month that it was switching from IBM PowerPC chips to Intel chips was one of those seismic events whose aftershocks continue to be felt for a long time.
THINK OF APPLE'S RECENT DECISION to start using Intel chips in its Macs as just one move in the mating dance that continually consumes the computing industry. It's like high school--one week you an...
STAR WARS FANS BY the thousands will be lining up to pay $10 to see the latest episode of the space opera, even knowing that they could be exposed to Jar Jar Binks again. And thousands of Apple fan...
Shares of Apple Computer Inc. tumbled nearly 6 percent a day after the maker of iPods and Macintosh computers reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings but a weak revenue forecast raised concerns among investors.
My hard drive's days were clearly numbered. A rapidly burgeoning 12-gigabyte collection of MP3s had taken most of the free space on my laptop's 18GB drive. And 2GB of photos from a recent trip to T...
SOME YEARS AGO I wandered, unaccompanied, past the desk of the chairman of a multinational corporation and was amused to see his computer monitor all daisied up with yellow Post-it notes. SYSTEM US...
PHOENIX (Komando.com) - It only takes 20 minutes on the Internet for an unprotected computer running Microsoft Windows to be taken over by a hacker. Any personal or financial information stored on that computer is ripe for the taking -- passwords, bank accounts, credit card numbers, and more. A firewall is your first line of defense and it works, so long as it is used properly.
The first Trojan horse virus to target Apple's latest operating system was discovered this week, and it appears to prey on the popularity of Apple's popular music service. However, it has not been released into the "wild" or on the Internet, and therefore remains low risk.
Do you remember the day you first surfed the Web, stretched out your arms over the vastness of cyberspace, teleported from site to site with an almost exhilarating power? Or alternately, sat waiting for "fat" pages to load?
HP's new OfficeJet 7130 All-in-One inkjet printer, flatbed color scanner, copier, and fax machine ($499 street price, Windows and Mac OS) elevates multitasking to an art form. It's the best multifu...
Video teleconferencing over the Internet isn't new. Just minutes after scientists discovered how to transmit two-way voice, video, and text streams between computers, sex-starved nerds were offerin...
How's this for a business model? Sell for 99¢ something the guy down the street is giving away for free. If Apple's new iTunes Music Store were a lemonade stand, it would already be out of busines...
Tens of millions of people around the world get along quite blissfully with ignorant mobile phones. But here in America, many people want their wireless phones to be smart. In theory, smartphones c...
Summer vacations end too quickly, but the memories can be preserved forever--or at least until you grow old and forget who those people in the photographs are--with Hewlett-Packard's Photosmart 755...
"Portable" is a relative term. Boom-box stereos are portable, for example. At the beach, you'll occasionally encounter a boom box-toting youth who generously wants to share his musical tastes with ...
At $149 for an upgrade, or even at $609 for a full version for first-time buyers, Adobe's Photoshop version 7.0 is cheaper than plastic surgery when it comes to erasing wrinkles and age spots from ...
The airport security guard already thought me a fool or worse for trying to slip past him with a deadly set of fingernail clippers concealed in my overnight kit. But when he asked to inspect my bac...
Stop whining. Your portfolio may be suffering a dot-com hangover, but that's no excuse to avoid looking at your finances. In fact, it's more important than ever to take charge of your money.
When Apple introduced the new, Unix-based Mac OS X in the spring, the operating system wasn't quite ripe. Despite its advanced features, OS X was basically beta software, including annoying design ...
Just 18 months ago, Advanced Micro Devices crowed with pride as it beat archrival Intel in the race to introduce the world's first PC microprocessor with a clock speed of 1,000 megahertz, or one gi...
Apple's original iBook was the computer equivalent of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's album. With its whimsical toilet-seat design, its fruity colors, including orange, blueberry, and lime, and its buil...
Computer shoppers who buy a Mac are finding something completely different--OS X, Apple's first new operating system since Macs made their debut in 1984. The new system is based on Unix, the heavy-...
Apple's OS X, which went on sale March 24, is a dazzling piece of work, representing an attempt to blend Apple's vaunted ease of use and elegant design with a completely rebuilt foundation based on...
Kodak has entered the mutant digital device sweepstakes with its MC3 Portable Multimedia Device, combining a digital camera, a simple video recorder, and an MP3 music player. The MC3, which works w...
You're in the boondocks on business, and you've forgotten some important documents you need for the meeting tomorrow morning. No problem. Your hotel room has a broadband connection--as many do thes...
The laptop of luxury
Windows XP, the new consumer PC operating system scheduled for delivery in late summer or fall, represents a long overdue spring cleaning for Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant is cleari...
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS I love MP3 digital music files, but I've always hated their incompatibility. I longed for the day that I could easily turn my CDs into MP3s or listen to MP3s on my stereo. Happi...
Steve Jobs, the personal-computer industry's chief aesthetic officer, is in his element. Here in the boardroom at Apple Computer's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, he's the only person seated. Recl...
Apple Computer has always had a tough time developing a decent notebook computer. It's a curious blind spot, as Apple often sets the pace in the design of desktop machines--witness the huge success...
When Apple Computer announced plans to soft-pedal its Rhapsody operating system in favor of the forthcoming Mac OS X--pronounced "OS Ten"--we couldn't help but wonder, Why "OS X"? Apple spokesperso...
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During the past 18 months some Silicon Valley types, led by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, have unleashed a barrage of hype about the network computer. At first the idea didn't make a lot of sense: Why ...
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