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Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'

News Initially the program will be limited to 10,000 US testers and computers running Windows but Microsoft said it plans to extend Live Mesh over the next few months to mobile phones, Apple computers and other devices connected to the internet.

Tags: google, cloud, microsoft

[23 Apr 2008]

Mozilla chief slams Apple's Safari-iTunes move

News   Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld   Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008   Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel   Photos: Who's in the iPhone queue?

Tags: itunes, safari, apple, install

[25 Mar 2008]

Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008

Photo In talking about Leopard, Jobs announced Time Capsule, which is a "backup appliance" that looks like the Mac Mini or Apple TV, and is basically a wireless access point with a hard drive. A display in the lobby of San Francisco's Moscone Center...

Tags: apple, macbook, macworld, jobs

[16 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News The annual event is Microsoft's opportunity to lay out its vision of where technology is headed and make the case for its approach, as contrasted with that of rivals such as Apple and Sony. A probable reference to the Apple CEO Steve Jobs once...

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

2008: The year of mobile handset evolution?

News With the glamorous promise of Google's Android and the glitz of Apple's iPhone, 2007 may seem like a hard year to beat in mobile terms - but 2008 looks set to be a battleground year for mobile handsets.

Tags: video, iphone, handsets, platforms

[03 Jan 2008]

Top 10 weird data disasters

News As he leant over the high-chair the device fell into a dish of apple puree. Follow the link to see video of how silicon.com reporters fared when they were told to do their worst to two innocent hard drives and then send them off to be resurrected...

Tags: recovery, hard drive, data, laptop

[05 Dec 2007]

Podcasting Hacks: Build a Simple Sound Cart for Macintosh

whitepaper First the author started with Xcode, which is available to Apple Developer Connection members (online membership is free), and quite possibly on one's Mac's hard drive in /Applications/ Installers/Xcode Tools.

Tags: streaming media, sample, mac, studio

[17 Oct 2007]

Microsoft Zune gets a makeover

News The pricing scheme for the devices exactly mirrors Apple's iPods. Apple hasn't said how many unprotected tracks on iTunes are available. In May, Apple announced it had partnered with record company EMI to sell DRM-free music on iTunes.

Tags: mp3 player, drm, microsoft, ipod

[03 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07

Round-Up It's just that Apple has decided to continue its migration towards players with flash-based memory and updated its entire iPod product range leaving only one 'classic' device with a hard disk. It's difficult to imagine what other features Apple...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[07 Sep 2007]

Apple to pipe YouTube to its TV

News The current Apple TV product costs $299 with a 40GB hard drive but a version with a 160GB hard drive will now cost $399. Starting next month, Apple TV users will be able to select "YouTube" as an option from the device's main menu and view...

Tags: apple, youtube, apple tv

[31 May 2007]

DRM-free tunes coming to the Zune too?

News Microsoft plans to follow Apple in selling unprotected songs from EMI, though the company won't say just when such tracks will appear on the Zune Marketplace store. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs issued his open letter calling for an end to DRM...

Tags: emi, apple, drm, microsoft

[05 Apr 2007]

Microsoft to issue fix for Zune glitch

News The company still trails Apple's iPod in the hard drive-based music area and does not yet have a flash-based device to compete with the iPod Nano or Shuffle. Reindorp said the Zune held its number two spot in hard drive-based digital music players...

Tags: zune, microsoft

[01 Mar 2007]

Zune not even close to snatching Apple's crown

News The Zune, meanwhile, captured 12 per cent of the hard-drive-based player market for December, although Current Analysis' study does not include many retail sales outlets, including Wal-Mart Stores and Apple's own retail stores.

Tags: zune, ipod

[05 Jan 2007]

More than a million Zunes to be sold by summer?

News As a point of comparison, research company IDC forecasts there will be 21.5 million hard drive-based music players sold this year, the vast majority from Apple. The company also projects Apple and Zune combined will have 98 per cent of that market.

Tags: zune

[07 Dec 2006]

Five reasons to love (and hate) Windows Vista

News Gadgets - In Windows Vista, Microsoft allows you to drag and drop Gadgets (think Widgets on the Apple Mac OS X desktop) to tell the time, calculate currency or tackle any trivial task you perform regularly that would be handier if it were always...

Tags: windows vista

[30 Nov 2006]

Minority Report: Apple in your living room

Comment Apple plans to sell it in the US for $299.iTV may also allow you to download content directly - Disney's Iger hinted as much during a Goldman Sachs conference shortly after the iTV pre-announcement, when he let slip that the device has a hard...

Tags: movie downloads, itv, apple

[09 Oct 2006]

Microsoft shows off iPod killer

News This gets harder and harder to do with Apple's continuous upgrades of the iPod. There had been a report last month that Microsoft was hoping to charge $299 for the Zune, Apple's then-price for the 30GB iPod.

Tags: zune, microsoft, ipod

[15 Sep 2006]

Leader: Nokia pulls an Apple

Leader And, like Apple, Nokia is a gorilla of the tech world - when you sell a third of the world's phones, you can drive a hard bargain for getting content with the sort of pricing and rights deals that customers and CFOs might like.

[10 Aug 2006]

Apple offers glimpse of Leopard

News Apple on Monday introduced the Mac Pro, the company's first Intel-based professional desktop, and also gave developers a preview of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X. The software records a copy of every change made to a file, which required...

Tags: mac pro, leopard, mac os x, os x

[08 Aug 2006]

Microsoft and Apple 'must improve security patches'

News The remarks come after Washington Post journalist Brian Krebs wrote in his blog about an experience at the Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas, where he witnessed the exploit of a wireless driver in one of Apple's MacBooks.

Tags: computer security

[03 Aug 2006]

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