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European customers lose the Mac Pro on March 1, maybe earlier

by Michael Rose (Jan 31st, 2013)

Product safety regulations, how do they work? European regulators are requiring adherence to UL's 60950-1 second edition standards, which originally came into effect in late 2010. The rules cover power supply design and other technical specifications. As reported in Macworld, the Mac Pro's ...

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, others to launch new Web standards resource

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2012)

Apple is just one of quite a few big tech companies signed on to help support the Worldwide Web Consortium (known as the W3C) in developing a brand new web standards resource called WebPlatform.org. The new site is simply designed to get all available information about how to code for the ...

Apple shows interest in European patent laws

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2012)

Apple has delivered a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute asking for basic principles for that region of the world on patents and their licensing, according to the Wall Street Journal. The letter asks for consistency across the board in how patents are owned and shared, ...

Microsoft embracing HTML5 / H.264 for IE 9

by Steven Sande (May 3rd, 2010)

Shortly after Steve Jobs delivered his "Thoughts on Flash" missive to the world last week, Microsoft's general manager for the Internet Explorer browser mentioned that the huge software company is putting its muscle behind the H.264 standard for HTML5 video content. Apple, of course, has been ...

App Store payola, and what it means for the app ecosystem

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2010)

Earlier this week, Wired posted a story about what they call "App Store Payola" -- the practice of sites that solicit cash payments (or other compensation) in order to expedite or publish app reviews. This isn't anything new. Ever since the App Store first went online, there have been sites that ...

Al Gore taunted at shareholders' meeting, gets 10k more options anyway

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2010)

Last week in this post and last night during the talkcast, we mentioned that Apple's shareholders had passed on a sustainability proposal during last week's meeting (the first time in recent memory that Apple didn't go for stricter environmental standards), but apparently the shareholders weren't ...

Apple supporting universal European handset chargers

by Dave Caolo (Jun 29th, 2009)

Last week I ordered my iPhone 3GS from the AT&T Store (no Apple Stores out here in the boonies). Five days later it was ready to be picked up and I drove out to the mall to get it. While the AT&T employee activated it and performed the soul-stealing voodoo that accompanies a new sale, a ...

Apple Matters: Vista isn't so bad after all?

by David Chartier (Oct 5th, 2006)

Hadley Stern at Apple Matters has penned a, shall we say, 'unique' review of the recent RC1 of Microsoft Vista. Since I need to spoil the article for my post here, I'll summarize: he likes it. Hadley found RC1 to be a vast improvement over earlier releases, regarding it as a usable, snappy OS. In ...

My other issues with iWeb

by David Chartier (Feb 6th, 2006)

Adding to the small pile of gripes with the new technology Apple is using with iLife 06, such as complaints about iWeb's bloated CSS or RSS standards and photocasting, I just developed a beef that I haven't really seen mentioned yet: the crummy new URL scheme for iWeb sites, both on and offline. ...

Is Photocasting totally non-standard?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 18th, 2006)

Not that Dave Winer is the complaining type, just like Mossberg is a "tough critic," but Dave and Kevin Yank have been swimming around in Apple's photocasting business. They didn't like what they saw. Remember Jobs saying something about photocasting using "industry standard" RSS ...