Take out the middle-man and an angel gets its wings
Call me slow if you like but I’ve just figured out what the internet is good for.
Call me slow if you like but I’ve just figured out what the internet is good for.
Following the alarming number of notebook battery recalls this year, a group of PC vendors met recently to seek safer lithium ion cells, and resolved to draft an improved standard for battery manufacturing and quality control by the second quarter of 2007.
“If you want your organisation to be the leader in the industry, avoid ‘best practice’ processes,” says Mike Kennedy, Gartner’s senior programme director for executive programmes. Kennedy was speaking at the CIO annual conference held in Auckland last week.
Apple Computer has tapped the head of Google for its board, hoping to benefit from his extensive industry experience.
Apple Computer will resolve its patent squabble with Creative Technology by paying the Singapore-based company US$100 million (NZ$157.5 million) for a license to use a recently awarded patent.
One of the bigger names in virtualisation — VMware — has been strangely silent on the subject of Macintosh support, but is silent no more — it has announced support for the Mac with a forthcoming beta release.
Apple unveiled a new XServe at the conference, its line of 1U rack-mountable servers. The new XServe — a quad Xeon, 64-bit server, featuring Mac OS X Server Tiger on two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors running up to 3.0 GHz — completes the company’s transition to Intel-based machines across its entire product line.
Apple Computer has stepped up its criticism of Microsoft’s Windows operating system and revealed numerous new features to its planned spring 2007 release of Macintosh OS X 10.5, or Leopard. But it was the hardware shown last week during San Francisco-hosted Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs that got people talking.
We all cheered when Apple began experimenting with community-driven, open source development for its flagship operating system, Mac OS X. But if those experiments are now drawing to a close, should anyone really be surprised?
Following a busy week of hardware and OS announcements from Apple, Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell and Senior Editor Rob Griffiths spent an hour fielding readers' questions on everything from new Leopard features to the latest Mac Pro information. Here are some highlights from the from their chat session.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave Mac developers and the public its first look at Mac OS X v10.5, code-named "Leopard" at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple's annual gathering of registered developers. The sixth major version of Mac OS X since its inception, Leopard will ship in spring, 2007, according to Jobs.
Apple has announced the Mac Pro, a new professional desktop computer that replaces its line of Power Mac machines. The Mac Pro completes the company's transition to Intel chips across its line of desktop and laptop machines. The standard Mac Pro configuration is priced at US$2,499 (NZ$4,000), build to order options will be available as well.
Security researchers David Maynor and Jon Ellch performed a digital drive-by this week, at the Black Hat USA conference. Their target: an Apple Computer MacBook.
Apple extended me the courtesy of meeting me the day after my column on the closing of the OS X x86 kernel source code (Computerworld, May 29) was published online.
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