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Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft

News Senior marketing manager Amanda Lefebvre declined to give all of the credit to Apple, but said of the increased number of Macs, "Of course that's one of the components that is helping us. While Apple's market share gains are cause for consternation...

Tags: mac, apple, office, microsoft

[13 May 2008]

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

Comment My only two problems with Macs: The topic that got readers turning to their keyboards this week was silicon.com's latest poll: What was your first home computer? Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod

News Robert Stimpson, portfolio manager at Oak Associates, which owns Apple shares said: "It looks like the Macs were good, the iPods were flat and the iPhones were OK. Apples sold 2.3 million Macs in the quarter, topping the two million to 2.2 million...

Tags: ipod, iphone, mac, apple

[24 Apr 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. Last month's launch of iPhone developer software passed unnoticed by the...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Apple patches up Safari

News According to Apple, in the first quarter of last year it shipped 2.3 million Macs, representing 44 per cent growth year-on-year. Apple has released another round of security patches for its web browser this week, targeting a vulnerability which...

Tags: safari, apple, security, macbook air

[18 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment Certainly, there are a couple of Macs in the Apple stable that have been guilty of positioning form above function. However, with the Macs I've owned this problem has never been applicable. But perhaps the most common allegation hurled in the...

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole

News ¦ iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs The BBC has issued a fix for a loophole that allowed hackers to download unrestricted content from its iPlayer online TV service. In a statement the BBC said it had released a fix for the "unrestricted...

Tags: iplayer, drm, online, content

[13 Mar 2008]

BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone

News ¦ iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs The BBC's online on-demand TV service iPlayer is now available to use on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Writing on the BBC blog this morning the BBC's head of digital media technologies, Anthony Rose...

Tags: apple, edge, iplayer, bbc

[07 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet  iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs The streaming version was compatible with Macs and Linux as well as the Microsoft platforms right from its launch. Aside from the work to make the download version compatible with Macs, the BBC also...

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

iDirect Brings the Cost of Satellite Broadband Access Down to Earth

whitepaper They needed a processing platform that could deliver 100 percent performance improvement at a lower cost and lower power, integrated features like encryption and Ethernet MACs, and the ability to "Turn on" features that were specific to certain...

Tags: broadband

[04 Mar 2008]

Mansfield Independent School District (MISD)

whitepaper Moves, Adds, or Changes (MACs), and any phone system repair and maintenance work required service calls to the Centrex provider. Mansfield Independent School District (MISD) is one of the fastest growing school districts in Texas, with a current...

Tags: voice - data integration

[04 Mar 2008]

ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight

News  iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today.

Tags: isps, bandwidth, fcc, questions

[25 Feb 2008]

Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts

Case Study Faber said it was shocked at the number of unlicensed fonts it uncovered on 21 Apple Macs by Montotype's Fontwise software, nearly three times the initial estimate. Publishing giant Faber & Faber is wiping away the chance of costly law suits by...

Tags: bsa, unlicensed, font, publishing

[22 Feb 2008]

BBC iPlayer continues to soar with 17 million downloads

News ¦ iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs The download version of iPlayer for Macs is due this year, although no firm date has been made public. The BBC's online on-demand TV service, iPlayer, continues to go from strength to strength, with 17...

Tags: iplayer, download, macs, bbc

[20 Feb 2008]

BBC signs up with iTunes

News  iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs A range of BBC television programmes are now available for download at Apple's UK iTunes store. BBC iPlayer: all the coverage   BBC signs up with iTunes   BBC's iPlayer is go diams...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, apple, itunes

[19 Feb 2008]

iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs

News The service has been available in streaming form for Macs and Linux - in addition to Windows XP and Vista - since December last year. BBC stats suggest around 90 per cent of people using the streaming version of iPlayer are running Windows, with...

Tags: bbc, online, firefox, iplayer

[08 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 01.02.08

Round-Up Let's take an analogy - and being a dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist the Round-Up's going to use the usual car analogy to differentiate between Macs and PCs. Mac users are a bunch of arrogant, self-satisfied gits.

Tags: hmrc, broadband, pc, windows

[01 Feb 2008]

First Direct banks on Apple

News Around 10 per cent of the customer base use Macs - a higher proportion than other banks, according to First Direct. First Direct is now offering its online banking services through Apple's Safari web browser, as well as on the recently launched...

Tags: mobile banking, apple, iphone, ipod

[24 Jan 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. If Mac users fall for scams that PC users have faced for years, it won't be long before criminal gangs exploit them, say security experts.

Tags: apple, malware, mac, exploit

[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...

Tags: apple, steve jobs, ipod, mac

[23 Jan 2008]

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