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Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft

News Microsoft's Mac unit is set to disclose that copies of the new Office for Mac 2008 are flying off the shelves at three times the rate of its predecessor. The company also said it was ready with the first "service pack" update for Mac Office 2008...

Tags: mac, apple, office, microsoft

[13 May 2008]

OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing

News The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released this week, adding significant features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard.

Tags: windows, mac, openoffice

[09 May 2008]

Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...

News Meanwhile, back in the present, silicon.com's Apple guru Seb Janacek contemplated what converted him to the ways of the Mac 10 years ago. Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user eBay hits back at boycotters

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 2008]

Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 25.04.08

Round-Up Podcast Foul-mouthed habits will get you fired, that ain't a word, and the age-old Mac vs PC debate all get an airing on this week's Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Julian Goldsmith, Natasha Lomas and Bethan Jones.

Tags: pc, mac, dialect, jobs

[25 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their favourite didn't feature on the poll… And from old computers to the latest in high-tech cool, the age-old...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod

News Apple yesterday posted a 36 per cent rise in quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of Mac computers, iPod players and iPhones, but its profit margin and cautious outlook disappointed investors. Shannon Cross, analyst at Cross Research, said: "It...

Tags: ipod, iphone, mac, apple

[24 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment The June Apple developer conference is likely to focus heavily on the iPhone and development roadmap, probably more so than the Mac. The Mac, and more recently the iPod, have had an undeniable influence on both the hardware and operating system and...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Accessing Exchange 2007 From Your Apple Macintosh (Part 1)

whitepaper This paper examines the various options for accessing Exchange from Apple Mac OS X including a discussion of some of the pros and cons of each solution. The clients which are looked in detail in this paper are Mac Mail 2.1.1, Outlook Web Access in...

Tags: mac os

[23 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum

Comment Find out what the priorities of your CIO are this year, have a look at the latest CIO Jury discussing the insider security threat, and read Seb Janacek on why he loves his Mac. Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal...

Tags: sinclair, commodore, spectrum

[22 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC to the way of the Mac, Seb Janacek reflects on what it is that made him the sad little geek he is today. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged...

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

Photos: Robots, lasers, action

Photo El-E's power and computation is all on board and runs Ubuntu Linux on a Mac Mini. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death...

Tags: healthcare, laser, robotics

[10 Apr 2008]

Mac OS X 10.2.8 or Earlier: About Using Disk Copy Disk Image Files

whitepaper There are two common types of disk image files produced by Apple software. These instructions may not apply to disk images created by third-party software. Files or applications stored in a disk image file do not work unless you open the disk image...

Tags: tape drives - libraries, disk, image, file

[10 Apr 2008]

AMPTRAC Connectivity Management System

whitepaper This joint intelligent structured cabling solution enables enterprise customers to minimize network downtime, reduce staff workload, and reduce MAC time by automating the management of the physical layer.

Tags: cable, intelligent, patch, structured

[10 Apr 2008]

Power Allocation for Multi-Band OFDM UWB Communication Networks

whitepaper Though extensive study on physical layer has been conducted, limited work exists in the literature on design of medium access control (MAC) layer protocols. Ultra wideband (UWB) technology has shown significant advantages over other existing ones...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, multi, ofdm, medium

[10 Apr 2008]

Adobe gives Linux breath of fresh AIR

News AIR 1.0, released late last month, runs on Windows and Mac OS. Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced it is joining the Linux Foundation. AIR is Adobe's software for running and creating web applications that run both...

Tags: adobe, air, mac, linux

[01 Apr 2008]

BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch

News Users have been receiving a 553 error message when trying to send emails from Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Mac Mail. Several thousand BT Yahoo! Mail customers have been unable to send email from their accounts following a Yahoo!

Tags: yahoo!, update, outage, security

[31 Mar 2008]

Winner: Apple voted brand with biggest impact

News The creator of the iPod and Mac computer triumphed in six categories including most inspiring brand and the one readers cannot live without. The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world's consumers, while Microsoft and the US nation brand...

Tags: us, microsoft, apple

[31 Mar 2008]

A Wireless MAC Protocol Using Implicit Pipelining

whitepaper While the concept of pipelined scheduling can be applied to various MAC protocol designs in general, this paper focuses on its application to IEEE 802.11 DCF. In particular, an implicitly pipelined dual-stage contention resolution MAC protocol...

Tags: wireless lan, protocol, mac, resolution

[27 Mar 2008]

Reading Hospital Technology Training Success Story

whitepaper Reading Hospital needed a Technology-based training program for their newly-developed Siemens Medication Administration Checker (MAC) software that could accommodate a staff of 1400 nurses. Healthcare Training with InfoLogix eLearning is web-based...

Tags: online - distance education, training, siemens, administration

[27 Mar 2008]

Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art

Photo This shows the iPhone simulator which allows you to see how apps will look using a Mac. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. This creation pictured is from a phishing program.

Tags: supercomputer, robots, viruses, military

[27 Mar 2008]

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