Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off two super-skinny MacBook Air laptops at todays event, as well as OS X Lion, iLife 11 and FaceTime for Macs. The MacBooks are available now. – At Apple’s much-hyped event Oct. 20 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus, CEO Steve Jobs offered attendees an early look at Mac OS X Lion, introduced updates to iLife 11 and announced that FaceTime, a capability previously only available on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, is now available for Mac…
Microsoft will release a tool for syncing Windows Phone 7 with Macs, according to a company statement. That could allow Microsoft to make a play for Apple fans. – Microsoft is planning a software tool that will sync its
upcoming Windows Phone 7 with Macs.
“Later in 2010 Microsoft will make a public beta available
of a tool that allows Windows Phone 7 to sync select content with Mac
computers,” reads a statement from the company e-mailed to eWEEK. As othe…
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first started their company, they called it Apple Computer. It was a name that lived on through decades. But a few years ago, Apple officially dropped “Computer” from its name. And now, the company is known as, simply, Apple. Although some called the name change symbolic, today, it seems to be quite fitting. Apple is no longer a computer company that focuses its efforts on delivering the best machines users can buy. The company is now an electronics maker. And it wants to be the worlds top hardware maker going forward. But in order to achieve that goal, Apple has forgotten about Macs. And although those computers are still somewhat important to the company, they arent nearly as important to Steve Jobs and Company as they were years ago. Read on to find out why Macs dont matter to Apple as much as they once did. – …
If you are looking to add Macs, Linux desktops or other PCs to your Microsoft network, Likewise may just be the answer to your integration dilemmas. – Imagine you’re
a network manager, happily living in your world of Windows servers and
desktops, when out of the blue, the CTO marches in to inform you that not only
is the art department switching to Macs but the CFO wants to save a few bucks
by going the Linux route, and it’s up to you to make …
JAMF Software’s changes to Casper Suite bring Mac systems under central control. The Mac management suite gives IT managers the ability to keep Mac systems up-to-date while also tracking inventory and license compliance.
– IT managers looking to streamline Mac management should check out the new
polish JAMF Software has put on the latest version of its comprehensive Casper
tool suite. With modules ranging from inventory and imaging to patch management
and remote control, the Casper Suite brings legacy PC control to…
Malware is most likely the typical term for viruses, spyware, viruses, as well as other digital uglies that Windows xp consumers are constantly protecting yourself against. It really is, broadly talking, software package a person didn’t prefer to be placed on your desktop.
Jim Dalrymple (loopinsight.com) reports on one-year-old non-profit organization Nuru, formed by ex-Marine platoon leader Jake Harriman, who “served two tours of duty in Iraq where he realized that the key to ending terrorism was to end extreme poverty.†To that end, Nuru educates communities in impoverished nations using technology, particularly Mac Pro and MacBook Pro computers, iPhone, Final Cut Studio, iChat, and MobileMe.
Jefferson Graham (usatoday.com) writes that musicians are increasingly recording first and even final tracks at home in GarageBand and Logic Pro, which guitarists can operate hands-free using the new foot-controlled Apogee GiO for Mac. Writes Graham: “Apple has cranked up its offerings for musicians of all kinds — especially guitarists.â€
News Analysis: The NPD Group has found that the vast majority of Mac users also use Windows PCs. And although that has proven to be a benefit for Apple in the past, it means that Apple has to keep innovating and improving the Mac platform or risk losing some of the gains it has made in recent years among long-time Windows PC users.
– A recent
study from the NPD Group has found that the vast majority of Mac owners
currently have a mixed computing environment in their homes. The
study found that 85 percent of respondents currently have both a Mac
and a Windows PC running. That figure came with news that now more than
12 perce…
Parallels Desktop 4.0 Switch to Mac edition makes it simple to convert a physical PC–including applications and data–to a Windows virtual machine running on a Mac. Parallels further eases the transition by including several hours of helpful instructional demonstrations that show step-by-step how to perform tasks in the Mac world.
– Parallels Desktop 4.0 Switch to Mac edition makes it simple to convert a
physical PC including applications and data to a Windows virtual machine
running on a Mac.
Training videos included in the Switch to Mac package effectively
demonstrate how to perform familiar Microsoft Windows actions in t…
More than a third of the students surveyed by Retrevo reported wanting small, lightweight notebooks this year, and more than half had a budget under $750. The result, says Retrevo, is that back-to-school shoppers are passing on Apple laptops.
– Retrevo, a product search engine, says it polled more than 300 of its 4
million monthly visitors and found that the “majority of student laptop
shoppers will not consider buying a Mac,” the company reported in an Aug. 18
statement.
According to Retrevo, 34 percent of students said they want …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that the Im a PC ads, which highlight the low cost of Windows PCs at the expense of Macs, have led to renewed market-share gains over Apple. As consumers look for cheaper computing power in the midst of a global recession, mini-notebooks, known popularly as netbooks, have experienced an increase in their market share relative to higher-end PCs.
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks that his companys recent ad campaigns, which have
focused on the low cost of Windows PCs relative to Macs, have been key in
gaining market share over Apple.
quot;We’re going to continue to tell the story of the Windows
PC, quot; Ballmer said during a Q amp;…
