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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up A report last week that claimed old adversary Apple, which is running its own anti-Vista campaign, is starting to claw back market share. Orange thinks it has the answer to the Apple iPhone. The company got together a sample of Windows XP users who... [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News The Mojave project is likely to be just one of many efforts designed to resuscitate Vista's image among stepped-up competition from Apple and Google. Much of that perception, Microsoft belatedly acknowledges, stems from Apple's successful and... [24 Jul 2008]
First iPhone 2.0 antivirus software released
News Paris-based computer security firm Intego said late last week it had released the first antivirus software for Apple's iPhone handset. Intego claimed that because Apple was allowing third-party developers to create applications for the iPhone by... [21 Jul 2008]
Apple OS gaining ground on Windows
News Apple's operating system is gaining ground on Microsoft Windows, with second-quarter results showing the company inching close to a 10 per cent market share in the US. While Windows certainly still dominates the computer market, Apple's share... [17 Jul 2008]
Reliability race: Microsoft OS beats Apple, Ubuntu
News Apple's service was down two hours and 34 minutes, with 99.9 per cent uptime, and Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux was down one day, five hours and 45 minutes, for 98.64 per cent uptime. Pingdom, a company that measures internet service... [15 Jul 2008]
Malware threat for iPhone 2.0
News Trend Micro said in the report, titled Trend Micro Threat Roundup and Forecast 1H 2008: "The release of Apple's new 3G iPhone will feature broadband capabilities and opportunities for multimedia application development. [14 Jul 2008]
Google Talk finds a home on iPhone
News However, while Apple continues to release new applications for the iPhone, a leading Mac OS X researcher, Charlie Miller, says Apple has not kept the iPhone operating system up to date with patches it has issued for the desktop. [04 Jul 2008]
Novell eDirectory Integration
White Paper Apple's Workgroup Manager is also capable of populating users, which he will discuss as well. Dan will also demonstrate how to create a simple iManager plug-in to manage the Apple specific attributes for user objects. [03 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment The processor giant's chipsets will now support OSes from Microsoft and Apple, as well as Ubuntu, Be, Linux and more. This approach might be the route to true convergence - by spanning the gulf created by OS wars and allowing anything, on any... [02 Jul 2008]
Migrating Applications to Intel Compilers for Mac OS X
White Paper The compiler integrates with Apple's Xcode .4.1 development environment, and is compatible with GNU C/C++ 4.0 to provide a very high level of optimization for Intel processor technologies. The Intel C++ Compiler 10.0 for Mac OS X provides support... [30 Jun 2008]
Nokia buys Symbian and looks to open mobile future
News Speaking to the industry back in February, the outgoing CEO of Vodafone, Arun Sarin, warned the industry about the threat posed by new entrants to the market, such as Apple and Google, called for fewer mobile operating systems to make life easier... [24 Jun 2008]
Photos: Bill Gates through the ages
Photo One of Gates' biggest rivals has been Apple's Steve Jobs. Gates launched the new OS at Microsoft's Redmond campus. Not an auspicious start for a young William Gates who was caught speeding in Albuquerque, New Mexico in December 1977 during the... [20 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment I am off to an Apple Mac. Join me in the exodus to Apple Mac. How dare they impose on us what OS we can use? Good grief.well who better to trust with high value equipment installations than an ex-cat burglar? [19 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment Some Apple watchers got themselves overexcited in the run-up to this week's announcements. That Apple will hit its target of 10 million iPhones sold by the end of 2008 is no longer in doubt. If you'd followed the rumbling of the Apple rumour mill... [13 Jun 2008]
Photos: Five of the best mini laptops
Photo The operating system is of course Apple's own OS X Leopard, neatly bypassing the Windows vs Linux dilemma. Photo credit: Apple Apple MacBook Air While it's not strictly a mini laptop, Apple claims its MacBook Air is the world's thinnest laptop... [06 Jun 2008]
