10 reasons Vista haters will love Windows 7 | 10 Things
| TechRepublic.com: "Many of my friends and readers adamantly refused to make the switch to Windows Vista when it came out. Some who bought new machines with Vista installed immediately “downgraded” the OS. A few proclaimed that they would give up XP only when you pried it from their cold, dead hands. But even in the last category, many of them are impressed with what they’ve seen in the Windows 7 beta."
Thursday, May 14, 2009
AppleInsider | Apple, AT&T sued over ties to Shazam music ID service
AppleInsider | Apple, AT&T sued over ties to Shazam music ID service: "Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices."
AppleInsider | Apple execs to keynote WWDC, issue final Snow Leopard preview
AppleInsider | Apple execs to keynote WWDC, issue final Snow Leopard preview: "Apple said Wednesday that a team of its top executives lead by worldwide marketing chief Phil Schiller will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month with a keynote address on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. that will showcase a final developer preview of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard."
AppleInsider | Apple now selling iPhones online in bid to clear inventory
AppleInsider | Apple now selling iPhones online in bid to clear inventory: "In the latest sign that iPhone season is rapidly approaching and inventories of existing models need a push out the door, Apple is now offering to sell customers an iPhone 3G through its website and ship it out for free."
AppleInsider | Steve Jobs seen returning post-WWDC brandishing new iPhones
AppleInsider | Steve Jobs seen returning post-WWDC brandishing new iPhones: "While all eyes are on Apple's annual developers conference as a likely forum for new iPhone hardware announcements, one Wall Street analyst is advising clients that better bets may be placed on an event a few weeks later that may also mark the return of Steve Jobs."
Monday, May 11, 2009
UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk | Security - CNET News
UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk | Security - CNET News: "The attackers accessed a public Web site and then bypassed additional secured databases stored on the same server. In addition to SSNs, the databases contained health insurance information and non-treatment medical information, such as immunization records and names of doctors patients had seen. No medical records (i.e. patient diagnoses, treatments, and therapies) were taken, as they are stored in a separate system, emphasized Steve Lustig, associate vice chancellor for health and human services."
Court says police can use GPS to track anyone | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Court says police can use GPS to track anyone | Technically Incorrect - CNET News: "ven't managed to become dependent on GPS yet.
It seems to be quite fun when you're driving in strange areas of America. But I'm not sure I want to hear a voice telling me where to go all the time. It's all a little too, well, corporate for me. Or a little too like a 20-year-old marriage.
However, I was moved to virtual paralysis when I learned that an appeals court in Wisconsin decided that police can stick a GPS-tracking device on anyone they want without getting a search warrant. Even if that person is not suspected of anything more than living, breathing and expectorating."
It seems to be quite fun when you're driving in strange areas of America. But I'm not sure I want to hear a voice telling me where to go all the time. It's all a little too, well, corporate for me. Or a little too like a 20-year-old marriage.
However, I was moved to virtual paralysis when I learned that an appeals court in Wisconsin decided that police can stick a GPS-tracking device on anyone they want without getting a search warrant. Even if that person is not suspected of anything more than living, breathing and expectorating."
In new TV hard sell, Microsoft strikes at Apple's art | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
In new TV hard sell, Microsoft strikes at Apple's art | Technically Incorrect - CNET News: "The latest Laptop Hunter TV spot from Microsoft is the very definition of a hard sell.
No, not because it barks at you to buy a PC or you'll miss out on the deal of the century (even though you will, you will), but because it goes after the fearless foot soldiers of the Apple army--artists."
No, not because it barks at you to buy a PC or you'll miss out on the deal of the century (even though you will, you will), but because it goes after the fearless foot soldiers of the Apple army--artists."
The iPhone's secret silicon: A need to know? | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News
The iPhone's secret silicon: A need to know? | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News: "Granted, many people don't care about the silicon inside their iPhone. They just want it to work. That said, I think more than a few people would like to see the specifications for the iPhone's core silicon posted on Apple's Web site."
Wall Street Journal plans micropayments model | Digital Media - CNET News
Wall Street Journal plans micropayments model | Digital Media - CNET News: "Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Journal, told The Financial Times that 'a sophisticated micropayments service' will launch this autumn. The system would charge small fees to occasional users who may not be willing to pay more than $100 a year for a subscription to WSJ.com, Thomson said."
Citrix Demos of a New Kind of Virtual Machine for Mac - Mac Rumors
Citrix Demos of a New Kind of Virtual Machine for Mac - Mac Rumors: "Perhaps most interesting, however, was Citrix's demo of their new virtualization solution XenClient for the Mac. Virtualization is the process by which you can run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. It has been frequently used on the Mac to run Microsoft's Windows in conjunction with Mac OS X. Citrix first started publicizing their plans for a new kind of Virtualization called 'Type 1 hypervisor' back in January."
Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS Windows Drivers - Mac Rumors
Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS Windows Drivers - Mac Rumors: "MacRumors has learned that Apple's Boot Camp utility under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include Windows HFS drivers, which will allow Windows installations to read Mac OS X HFS formatted partitions."
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