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RSS macs the macApple OS X more vulnerable than Vista?
News Macs have traditionally been viewed as suffering from fewer vulnerabilities than Windows. Apple Mac operating systems had more critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007 than Microsoft's operating systems, according to research. [20 Dec 2007]
BBC's iPlayer comes to Macs and Linux
News But Anthony Rose, the BBC’s Head of Digital Media Technology, has now said the corporation is aiming to launch a download version for other platforms "including Macs" in 2008. A streaming version of the BBC's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has... [14 Dec 2007]
Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel
Photo The Macs currently run Apple's Tiger OS but are due to be upgraded to the new Leopard OS before Christmas. Using the Macs you can surf the web while watching TV - the service offers 38 TV channels. City Inn plans to roll out the Macs to its other... [20 Nov 2007]
Mac porn Trojan is multiplying, warns F-Secure
News It shows that Macs are "starting to get interesting for the bad guys", he added. Security company F-Secure has discovered 32 variants of a Mac Trojan unearthed last week but claims about its powers have been wildly overstated, according to experts. [09 Nov 2007]
Minority Report: Apple's blues
Comment Users found despite an apparently successful installation, their Macs soon hung on restarting and presented users with a blank blue monitor. It seems only fair I spend some time with Apple's new big cat to assess what features will help the Macs... [05 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07
Round-Up Complaints soon began to hit Apple's support web forums and phone lines as users reported that having installed the new OS their Macs subsequently hung on restart with a plain blue screen. Worse still, some Macs installed with Leopard now feature... [02 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment have people never considered the possibility of making a backup or do macs never get hit by lightning or power surges or knocked off desks or have coffee spilled on them or any of a hundred and one accidental disasters that affect computer systems... [01 Nov 2007]
BBC tech chief hits back at iPlayer critics
News He said: "I am a deep lover of Macs. The BBC has hit back at criticisms from the Mac and open source communities over the iPlayer only being available for Microsoft's Windows XP platform. The BBC launched the iPlayer in July this year for the... [30 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment We do believe the next suite of Adobe Air products will enable us to offer a download solution for Macs and we believe that would be possible at some point during 2008. I am a deep lover of Macs. The launch of the iPlayer, however, hasn't been... [30 Oct 2007]
Apple riding high on Mac sales, iPhone
News Apple sold 2.1 million Macs during the quarter, a company record and 400,000 units better than its previous best. Mac shipments were up 34 per cent compared to last year, and iPod shipments were up 17 per cent. [23 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer
Leader The BBC is in the process of developing a video streaming version of iPlayer, its online on-demand TV service, for both Windows XP and non-XP platforms.iPlayer is currently only available as a download service for Windows XP, despite the BBC... [19 Oct 2007]
Inside Mac: Using Virex
White Paper Fortunately, Macs seem to be safe from most viruses, but every now and then, one will slip through, and when one does, one needs to be prepared to deal with it. Viruses are the bane of the Internet. They typically get started by some punk who has... [10 Oct 2007]
Vista sales failing to sparkle
News Swenson credited the large number of people switching to Macs as part of the reason for the spike in Mac Office sales. While much of the sales were for the new Office 2007, Swenson said just over 20 per cent of all boxed copies of Office were... [12 Sep 2007]
E-CSMA: Supporting Enhanced CSMA Performance in Experimental Sensor Networks Using Per-Neighbor Transmission Probability Thresholds
White Paper This paper proposes to enhance the de facto state of carrier sensing-based MACs in wireless sensor networks by using low cost channel feedback combined with a learning approach to try to better predict the probability of a successful reception, on... [03 Sep 2007]
Hop-by-Hop Congestion Control Over a Wireless Multi-Hop Network
White Paper Many wireless MACs use a time-division strategy for channel access, where, at any point in space, the physical channel can be accessed by a single user at each instant of time. In a wireless network, an important constraint that arises is that due... [31 Aug 2007]
