Apple phone?
Businessweek on an opportunity squandered by Steve Jobs: I don’t mean Apple should lay a bunch of fiber-optic cable and fill large buildings with high-price switching equipment. Rather, Jobs & Co. could provide the graphical interface and the ease of use. For the guts of ...
Best friends…
If I didn’t know any better, I’d actually believe that Microsoft was trying to play buddy buddy with Apple. After all, not only have they never delivered a version of Virtual PC or Office for Linux or Solaris, but they are continuing to deliver quality products on the ...
...or mortal enemies.
Does anyone find it a bit coincidental that at the same time they are announcing the release of upgrades to their Virtual PC and Office product lines for Mac, Microsoft is set to launch a music service that competes DIRECTLY with iTunes? To me this is coincidental AT BEST. ...
QuickTime and iTunes buffer overun vulnerability
A bug recently found in both Apple QuickTime v6.5 and iTunes 4.2.0.72 has been shown to let an attacker execute code in the SYSTEM context on Windows systems. This is a fairly serious bug since any web page that instantiates a quicktime movie can potentially exploit this ...
Tempting fate
After a recent announcement of two new products LPhotos and LTunes (which carry a strong resembalance to ITunes and IPhoto based on screenshots), people are wondering what the hell is wrong with this company. While Apple hasn’t responded (at least publicly) Lindows Inc has ...
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
Check out Scobles response to the CEO of Adobe, on why he shouldn’t lose sleep over Microsoft. In it he talks about how Adobe has always embraced new technology and how Adobe has been bold in the past in taking on industry leaders such as Apple and Microsoft. Let’s ...
The end is nigh…Pixar switchs to G5’s
If you ask me…not that anyone did…but if you had, I’d tell you that this is a major coup. For a major digital production studio to move away from the Linux stuff they were running and to bet the bank on OS X desktop and all the way to the back end, ...
Form And function
Looks like the worlds number one spam fighter, Steve Linford, founder of he Spamhaus project employs G4’s to fight spam in real time. Now I’m a Microsoft type…in case that wasn’t obvious enough, but when I hear things like this I have to admit that my curiosity ...
