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BBC iPlayer hacked… again
News Paul Battley, a developer for crowd-sourced reviews site Reevoo, wrote on his blog that he had "defeated" the fixed iPlayer code. The iPlayer hack released on Thursday can run on Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems, Battley claimed, and... [17 Mar 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment It is spectacularly beautiful, features an innovative design and wowed the Macworld crowd. It was spectacularly beautiful, featured an innovative design and wowed the Macworld crowd. Crucially, the Cube also squeezed itself in between the consumer... [06 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.02.08
Round-Up Have you ever seen the crowd at a Steve Jobs keynote? Mac users are a bunch of arrogant, self-satisfied gits. The same applies to Mac users. They've given up and are just fuelled by a sense of futile despair, following whatever tasks are allotted... [01 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up Then have to fire the remaining rockets manually 600 feet into the air in the howling wind and rain above a braying, booing crowd. A month earlier, silicon.com readers ranked it below Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux as their operating system of choice. [04 Jan 2008]
Stories of the year
News Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd The comments were made after Frank Abagnale, the one-time confidence trickster turned security expert (who also inspired the film Catch Me If You Can), said the scheme should be scrapped if... [14 Dec 2007]
Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd
Comment Graham Linehan has written a string of popular UK comedy sitcoms, from Father Ted's eccentric group of Catholic priests on Craggy Island, to a grumpy bookstore owner in Black Books - and his most recent endeavour, The IT Crowd, about an IT support... [12 Oct 2007]
Minority Report: Changing of the guard at Apple?
Comment Even the arrival of the Mac Pro - Apple's high-end workstation equipped with two dual-core Xeon processors - failed to wow the crowd, despite the machines representing the early completion of the company's impressive transition to Intel chips. [01 Sep 2006]
Macs 'inherently more secure', say Mac users
News In other words, writing a Windows Virus is a good way to get lost in the hacker crowd. Mac users have reacted angrily to yesterday's leader article on silicon.com which questioned whether the Mac operating system is perceived as being more secure... [07 Jul 2006]
Apple: 'Don't expect Mactels to run Vista'
News In more bad news for the Vista-on-Mac crowd, Microsoft reportedly told another IDF session on Thursday that the initial release of Vista won't be supporting EFI at all. Windows is a legacy OS," Esfahani said, to laughter and applause from the crowd. [10 Mar 2006]
Jobs delivers Mactels "a little ahead of schedule"
News Addressing a packed crowd of the Mac faithful, Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday served up the first Intel-based Macs, introducing a new high-end laptop and a revamped iMac. Jobs said: "The MacBook Pro is the fastest Mac notebook ever, obviously. [11 Jan 2006]
Video iPod fails to move the blogosphere
News But for all the speculation about when Jobs might reverse his opinion about the importance of adding a video iPod to Apple's line-up, the final product met with a relatively underwhelmed crowd. Many blogs showed that the company's move to bring the... [13 Oct 2005]
Mac mini hits the shops
News In addition to newbies, there was another crowd of people hoping to buy the iPod Shuffle on Saturday -- those who already had an iPod or iPod mini in hand. Although the shop did have a supply of Mac minis and the company's latest software titles... [24 Jan 2005]
Macworld coverage - all in one place
News This year at the Macworld Expo trade show in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs once again wowed the enthusiastic crowd with new hardware and software announcements as well as more details about key partnerships and the like. [12 Jan 2005]
New iPod users 'dumping PCs for Macs'
News Among the factors influencing the ex-PC crowd were ease-of-use, the focus on entertainment and the perception of better security. According to a survey of iPod users by financial analyst firm Piper Jaffray, Macs are now basking in the reflected... [23 Nov 2004]
Emerging markets tough nuts for Microsoft to crack
News If Price was looking for help from the crowd at WinHEC, he probably didn't get much. How much does a Big Mac cost in India versus in New York versus in Taipei, and how do you map a similar Big Mac index to software? [10 May 2004]
