CNBC is predicting that Apple may top Microsoft as computing's most valuable firm. But that kind of success might be self-defeating.
As CNBC rightly acknowledges, Apple has a long way to go before it can dethrone Redmond, but ...READ»
For an Apple Tablet to be a hit, it will have to be more than a big-screen iPhone. And the difference between a lithe, touch-based Mac and a giant, lame iPhone comes down to one crucial nerd-factor: memory management.
Memory ...READ»
Apple's Snow Leopard upgrade to OS X has many subtle behind the scenes powers that assure it'll remain cutting edge for a good while, but it also seems to have unexpected green skills: It could save the world 50GigaWatts of ...READ»
Apple just announced that it's next update to OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, will ship on Friday. That's great news if you own an Intel Mac, but if you own an older machine, you're out of luck--version 10.6 won't support PPC Macs. But ...READ»
After a period of downtime early Monday morning, Apple has reinstated their online store with one seminal addition: the ability to preorder Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, for shipping on August 28. Unlike most major revisions to the ...READ»
How would Facebook be different today if its social operating system was built into Apple's OS X? The two companies spent a lot of time collaborating early on. But, as Facebook's senior platform manager and former Apple employee Dave ...READ»
New data suggests Microsoft's Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It's great news for the team at Redmond...but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance?
Microsoft's ...READ»
Yesterday I wrote about the smartbook--a half smartphone, half netbook device that's being pushed as the future of mobile computing. And now it looks like a Chinese firm has beaten everyone, and released a cellphone that runs ...READ»
Microsoft, corporate bully, evil monopolist, purveyor of buggy virus-ridden software and gargantuan money-making machine, is about to make the Windows 7 May "release candidate" OS entirely free to download, and functional ...READ»
Blackberry, for all its success, suffers from one core problem: It's the boring corporate suit at the funky smartphone office party. Now two bits of news have popped up to suggest that RIM is trying to inject a bit of hipster design ...READ»
Digitimes reported today that LCD manufacturer Wintek will produce displays for a new Apple [AAPL] netbook to be released this summer. We've been hearing about the non-existant Apple netbook for months. Why won't these rumors die? ...READ»
It's been a tough year for Redmond: bricking Zunes, class-action suits, and the people-hate-Vista debacle. You'd think those three catapstrophes would be enough to make the PC giant shape up. You'd be wrong.
Microsoft [MSFT], it ...READ»
As part of his CES keynote speech yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer surprised the crowd by announcing that Windows 7 is now available as a Beta test version for free download.
MSDN and TechNet subscribers can get it ...READ»
With the doors of the Moscone center in San Francisco soon to burst open upon a Jobs-less Macworld 2009, the Internets are predictably alive with rumors--some more believable, some less believable, some just stuffed with desperate ...READ»
HP's EX485 and 487 servers have just hit the network-attached storage scene, and they're likely to make a bit of a splash: they're apparently the first NAS devices not made by Apple that are officially compatible with the Time Machine ...READ»
While Apple is busy trying to protect its current-generation operating system, Microsoft has been trying to kill off its elder one. Windows XP use has rumbled on far longer than Microsoft would've wanted (original termination was ...READ»
The Psystar saga has rumbled on for while now, but the latest move proves how bizarre the head-to-head with Apple has become. Psystar's lawyers are now claiming that Apple has not properly registered a copyright claim on OS X, meaning ...READ»
A Chinese company says it's producing a case for an upcoming iPhone Nano. Bits of code inside the latest version of OS X suggest a new Mac Mini. Are they one in the same?READ»
There's a little computer company in Florida called Psystar making cheap Macintosh clones, that thinks that OS X should be open. But Apple [AAPL] thinks the company may be the puppet of a larger enemy.
The Cupertino computer-maker ...READ»
Businessweek is hypothesizing that HP [NYSE:HPQ] might be ready to ditch Microsoft's [NASDAQ:MSFT] Windows and develop its own operating system.
According to the magazine, HP is a little disappointed with many of the unpopular ...READ»
Since Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL] moved its computers to Intel chips, they've had to rebuild OS X to run on x86 -- aka, PC -- hardware. That's obviously opened some doors for mettling hacker-types, who've since ported the OS to run on any ...READ»
If you weren’t listening closely to the first couple of minutes during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech yesterday, you might have missed another significant product announcement: Snow Leopard OS X. Details were sparse from the Silicon ...READ»
Fulfilling the many rumors of a Mac OS-related announcement at WWDC in San Fransisco today, Apple [NASDAQ: APPL] unveiled a new version of its OS X "Leopard" operating system, dubbed "Snow Leopard," that is big ...READ»
With less than five days until Apple's [NASDAQ: AAPL] Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Fransisco, Mac fanboys are getting some exciting peaks into the coming announcements. Spy shots taken at the Moscone Center, where the ...READ»
According to Mac rumor site the Unofficial Apple Weblog, Apple seems to be poised to release the successor to its Leopard operating system, aka OS 10.5, at its World Wide Developer Conference later this month. The update to 10.6 ...READ»
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