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News None of the IT chiefs surveyed said the latest iteration of the Mac OS - Snow Leopard - will push their business to adopt Apple desktops.silicon.com readers also had their say on the matter - with voices... [09 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment Eventually, Apple software supported contextual clicking in late versions of OS 8 and the company eventually released a couple of multi-button mouses. The Apple mouse has long been the... [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Photo credit: Apple Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was among the first computers to sport a mouse - albeit a boxy and clunky one. Released with the iMac in 1998, the Apple USB mouse was... [03 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet Is this another name for Apple CEO Steve Jobs' infamous reality distortion field? The latest iteration of Apple's iPhone - the 3G S - has GPS, a compass and is also capable of superimposing data over the... [27 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment Brian Croll, Apple's vice president of Mac OS X worldwide product marketing, told silicon.com sister site CNET News.com: "Users are really growing tired of Windows and the headaches it brings.... [20 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment In a recent silicon.com CIO Jury, just one of the IT chiefs surveyed said the recent release of Snow Leopard will make their business more likely to adopt Apple desktops, while other CIOs outlined to silicon.com why they... [13 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Apple used the event to announce the release of the new OS 3.1 for both the latest iPhone and iPod Touch. Click here to see more screenshots of the installation of Apple's latest Mac... [02 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News It's a situation that looks unlikely to change, despite the launch of a new Mac OS: a recent poll of the silicon.com CIO Jury found none of the IT chiefs surveyed said the release of Snow Leopard will prompt their... [02 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet However, it was the swathe of software makers that entered the market a couple of years ago that really turned up the heat on Symbian by making its OS look increasingly dated and clunky - Apple's iPhone... [01 Oct 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Perhaps reflecting the increasing ambitions of Google, Schmidt left Apple's board of directors in August after saying the two businesses were starting to overlap too much. It also continued to push its Chrome web browser... [29 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet Well, the web browser market has long been dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer and although there are pretenders to Microsoft's throne - such as Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and Opera - more than two-thirds... [22 Sep 2009]
Macs more likely to be used on your network but you didn't pay for them
Comment Apple has made each new release of Mac OS X easier to integrate with corporate resources. Apple is content to continue to make Mac OS more enterprise-friendly and... [21 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Apple may be reinvigorated with CEO Steve Jobs back at the helm and a new OS just out of the gates, but it looks like the business world is still closed to the Mac maker. According to silicon.com's CIO... [21 Sep 2009]
Palm drops Windows Mobile operating system
News Palm has struggled to regain footing after losing market share over the past couple of years to companies such as Apple with its iPhone, and RIM, maker of the BlackBerry devices. Palm is to stop making Windows Mobile... [18 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: The Snow Leopard Appreciation Society
Comment Apple's latest OS doesn't aim to wow with a host of new features: it's the little things that count, says Seb Janacek A lot has been written about Snow Leopard since its release two weeks ago: but maybe... [16 Sep 2009]
