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Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News Adebayo said: "Before recommending such a radical change for close to 2,000 in-house IT customers, I'd need to consider not only the costs of the software, hardware, and training; but also the intangible costs of inevitable downtime,... [02 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment With reports abounding of the mythical Mac tablet being unveiled at the start of 2010, the timing can hardly be coincidental. For years, I've had doubts over the tablet Mac. Now, reports of the tablet... [01 Oct 2009]
Apple readying lightweight MacBook?
News Indeed, Mac sales have been very impressive lately. Data provided by market research firm IDC showed the entire PC industry down more than three per cent for April, May and June, but... [26 Aug 2009]
Ubuntu-using small businesses get a helping hand with helpdesk support
News According to Net Applications, Linux as a whole has a 1.05 per cent share of the global OS market, to Windows's 93.04 per cent and Mac OS X's 4.86 per cent. However, the new Desktop Support Services,... [04 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: iPhone puts the 'smart' in smartphone
Comment There was a solid rise in Mac sales year on year and a slight decline in iPod sales for the same time period. Apple has a minority share of the computer market yet its profits continue to defeat downward... [27 Jul 2009]
Spending more than $1,000 on a computer? Chances are you'll go Mac
News Of course, all the computers Apple sells - with the exception of the $999 white plastic MacBook and the Mac Mini desktop - are more than $1,000, so they should own that market. The Mac... [24 Jul 2009]
Macs and iPhones Apple of its eye as profits rise
News The Mac has outgrown market in 18 of the last 19 quarters. Though iPod sales slipped, Apple's increased Mac and iPhone sales drove the company to a better-than-expected quarter.... [22 Jul 2009]
Windows 7: Will touch ever take off?
News That built-in ability to use two fingers to rotate, scroll and zoom offers tangible proof that the operating system is different from its predecessor, not to mention being something not found on a Mac. [02 Jul 2009]
My top 10 fantasy Mac tablet features
News What's key is to keep the best parts of the iPhone and the best parts of the Mac desktop OS, like the iPhone's version of the Safari browser, and compatibility with the App Store, he said. Mac OS, on the... [01 Jun 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Netbooks
Cheat Sheet Notably absent from the party is Mac-maker Apple, and rumours surrounding a Mac OS X netbook arriving anytime soon were quashed recently by COO Tim Cook.silicon.com's resident Apple commentator Seb... [08 May 2009]
Inbox: 'Microsoft - focus on what you do do, not what you don't do'
Comment I've had Mac and PC products with no discernible reliability, usability differentiator.in fact the PC I'm using now is eight-years-old and has had no issues. In recent years Apple's... [05 May 2009]
Netbooks: "cramped keyboards, terrible software and junky hardware"
News But to a certain extent, Apple is indifferent to Mac market share: the PC wars are over, and Microsoft won a long time ago, as Steve Jobs himself said back in 1996. Cook can't say... [23 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.02.09
Round-Up Microsoft has announced it is planning to launch its own series of branded stores in an attempt to play catch-up with the Mac-iPod-iPhone maker Apple. At least not according to silicon.com's resident... [20 Feb 2009]
PC shipments drop as credit crunch bites
News The Mac maker's market share expanded again in the US, reaching 7.2 per cent, the highest in at least a decade. Loren Loverde, PC market analyst for IDC, said: "We had... [15 Jan 2009]
Five of the best mobile browsers
Photo The browser preloaded on Apple's iPhone is a version of the Mac-maker's desktop offering Safari, based on open source WebKit tech. It's not Mountain View's sole foray into browserland (its PC web browser... [05 Jan 2009]
