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RSS macintoshMagic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment The year after, the Macintosh sported one too. The Apple mouse has long been the weak link in its hardware set-ups. Seb Janacek asks: Can the new Magic Mouse change all that? I have a dream… a dream that Apple finally... [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Macintosh mouse The mouse was a key selling point of the first Macintosh in 1984, as it allowed the Mac user to break free from the command-line prompt and explore exciting new graphical user interfaces. [03 Nov 2009]
Adobe patches 28 flaws: Reader and Acrobat plugged
News Version 9.1.3 of Reader and Acrobat; Acrobat 8.1.6 for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix; and version 7.1.3 of Reader and Acrobat for Windows and Macintosh are affected. Adobe has released a bulletin patching... [14 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment It is difficult to determine whether the Macintosh platform would be more expensive than Windows because most IT departments and companies have no idea how much Windows is costing them in lost productivity, excessive... [13 Oct 2009]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile In 1984, he worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer's Macintosh Division, and he founded entertainment software company Liberty Software in 1979 when he was 15 years old. As head of Salesforce.com,... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Later, sales of the Macintosh surged on the back of desktop publishing software from Aldus and others. Every once in a while an application comes along that defines a platform. For the Apple II it was the early... [25 Sep 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News Krishnamurti says that while it is currently unlikely that Apple will support a technology that would allow non-Apple applications to run on the iPhone, he believes the company may come around eventually, as seen in its decision to allow... [03 Sep 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief, Macintosh is not more secure from a software standpoint than modern Windows; it's merely safer to use because malware writers prefer to target the platform with the biggest install... [27 Aug 2009]
New Office for Mac coming next year
News Eric Wilfrid, general manager of Microsoft's Macintosh business unit, said on a conference call that he couldn't really talk about how Outlook for Mac will compare to Snow Leopard, in terms of Exchange support, since... [13 Aug 2009]
Adobe patches critical Flash hole
News The vulnerability affected a file that shipped with Flash Player 9.x and 10.x for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and with Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and Unix. Adobe has released a patch for a... [31 Jul 2009]
Flash hole fix coming next week, says Adobe
News The vulnerability exists in current versions of Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x for those same platforms, Adobe said in an... [24 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday unleashes record number of updates
News Adobe also issued security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x for Windows and Macintosh on Tuesday in its first quarterly security update for its popular software for creating and reading PDF... [10 Jun 2009]
Windows, IE, Word, Office, and Excel all getting patched
News In addition, Adobe said it will provide security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x for Windows and Macintosh on Tuesday in its first quarterly security update for its popular software for... [05 Jun 2009]
Oracle gunning to boost Java in netbooks
News Java's claim to fame is that it allows developers to write one set of code that will run on multiple operating systems - including Microsoft's Windows, Apple's Macintosh OS and Linux. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison... [03 Jun 2009]
Centrify Adds Value to Active Directory - And the Business
White Paper The company builds middleware that makes Microsoft Active Directory the IAM boss of UNIX, Linux, Macintosh and web application systems, providing a simple but powerful solution. Business initiatives, regulatory... [16 May 2009]
