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Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment There was nothing on new Mac hardware and no sign of the ghostly 'tablet Macs' some analysts had predicted. Other than a cursory mention of the new version of OS X for Mac, the keynote speech at the Worldwide Developer Conference was the iPhone and... [13 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment While worldwide computer unit sales continue to slow - although Macs are bucking the trend - it's in mobiles that growth is predicted as the web moves to handheld devices. CEO Steve Jobs announced at the iPhone launch last January that the company... [23 Apr 2008]
Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks
News We can't say that … Macs are the place to be but it's clear there is a market experiment going on. While Mac penetration remain relatively low in the enterprise, the increasing popularity of OS X in the consumer market has resulted in criminal... [23 Jan 2008]
Mac sales set Apple 'on fire'
News Apple estimates 19 per cent of the Macs installed are running Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, and Leopard generated $170m in revenue for Apple during the first quarter it went on sale, compared with the $100m that Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, generated for Apple... [23 Jan 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment Apple's change of name in January from Apple Computer to Apple Inc also highlighted the company's growing focus on product families other than Macs. The B team delivered a system that, while far quicker and more elegant than previous versions of... [21 Dec 2007]
Apple OS X more vulnerable than Vista?
News Macs have traditionally been viewed as suffering from fewer vulnerabilities than Windows. He found Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X, faced more critical flaws than Windows XP and Vista combined. [20 Dec 2007]
Stories of the year
News The age-old Mac vs PC debate was reignited this year when half of a silicon.com CIO Jury decided the cost of upgrading to Microsoft's latest OS - Windows Vista - is encouraging companies to consider investing in Macs or Linux-based machines instead. [14 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...
Comment With Apple shifting more Macs than ever before and Ubuntu really simplifying the Linux experience, we may start to see real competition in operating systems once again. In the UK, probably fewer than 3% of corporate machines are Macs, yet look at... [15 Nov 2007]
Mac porn Trojan is multiplying, warns F-Secure
News It shows that Macs are "starting to get interesting for the bad guys", he added. Last week, Mac security software vendor Intego discovered a Trojan designed for Mac OS X being distributed via porn sites. [09 Nov 2007]
Minority Report: Apple's blues
Comment While Apple doesn't need to support third-party apps, particularly ones that mess with system libraries, it's unfortunate - given the prevalence of the haxies in Macs - Apple didn't catch the problem. [05 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07
Round-Up Complaints soon began to hit Apple's support web forums and phone lines as users reported that having installed the new OS their Macs subsequently hung on restart with a plain blue screen. Worse still, some Macs installed with Leopard now feature... [02 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment have people never considered the possibility of making a backup or do macs never get hit by lightning or power surges or knocked off desks or have coffee spilled on them or any of a hundred and one accidental disasters that affect computer systems... [01 Nov 2007]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News Macs are as easy to hack as they are to use, according to security researcher Charles Miller. Open source is yet another vector for new attacks on Apple Macs. During his presentation, 'Hacking Leopard: Tools and techniques for attacking the newest... [14 Aug 2007]
BBC iPlayer petition hits 10,000
News The BBC added that developing a version for Apple Macs and Microsoft Vista is "absolutely on our critical path for this year". At the time of writing, 10,006 people had signed the petition calling for the Prime Minster to instruct the BBC to... [23 Jul 2007]
Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred
Comment Over the past few years Apple has done a lot to make Macs more appealing to corporations - and, says Seb Janacek, it looks like its hard work may just be starting to pay off. Other factors which have appeared over the last two years to endear Macs... [19 Jul 2007]
