In an apparent bid to rapidly gain share of the online browser market dominated by rival Microsoft, Apple is leveraging its vast iTunes install base to recommend that Windows users also download and install the latest version of its Safari web browser.
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What’s the sound of one hand clapping?
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Can Word edit the unknown?
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“[Improved in Beta 4!] Firefox 3 Beta 4 includes more than 900 enhancements from the previous beta, including drastic improvements to performance and memory usage, as well as fixes for stability, platform enhancements and user interface improvements. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.”
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Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares.What does Google think? Apple? Yo mama?
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Personally, i have always liked Nokia phones. iHave had a cheapy and a top-o-the line one, both were
effective communications devices, and i actually miss them. (as much as a person can miss a phone) I have had other phones, some likable, most likable was the blackberry i had, i could travel freely between north and South America with it getting updates from my secretary with gtalk, until that came to and end with the Blackberry falling out of my pocket after jumping the chain-link next to the Hudson river at a late-night 6 Apart party. I somewhat hold them responsible as i wouldn’t have gone to that “blogging cook-out” nor invited if i would have known that the Grandmaster Flash party wasn’t really put on by them, they just scheduled a cook-out at the same time, if losing my phone & going to a fake party wasn’t enough, i had this wall street journal woman calling me all week and eventually getting quoted in the journal while some one was using an average of eight calls a day on my overpriced verizon plan. So after that I got the quite dislikable motorola, i know own. i dislike the Motorola so much i sometime opt not to bring my phone places, not because of people, but because of the phone. iSimply can’t wait until September when my contract is finito and i can get an apple/google/ or nokia at that time. Hopefully Nokia will still be up to par, it looks like they are trying, check out this money publication regarding Nokia’s strategy and how they are looking to stay the world’s number one phone maker. Read the rest of this entry »
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Don’t trash your Boot Camp drive just yet, but Leopard could contain the early signs of running Windows apps in Mac OS X after all. While the evidence is telling, we encourage you not to hold your breath just yet.
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Redmond are done with Messenger for mac (which was lets face it, one of the buggyest apps)
But there is a new client which is reportedly (and I believe this is verbatim) “Really really cool, and awesome”!!
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IT’S ABOUT F**KING TIME.
Salvdor Dali’s Classic Painting,
by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up”, 1944
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Jobs: Decade of Mac OS upgrades likely
Apple will likely continue its current upgrade strategy for the Mac OS, says Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Speaking with the New York Times, Jobs notes that the Friday release of Mac OS X Leopard will form the basis for another cycle of continuous operating system upgrades, possibly lasting as long as a decade. “I’m quite pleased with the pace of new operating systems every 12 to 18 months for the foreseeable future,” Jobs comments. “We’ve put out major releases on the average of one a year, and it’s given us the ability to polish and polish and improve and improve.”The strategy stands in contrast to Microsoft, which only releases major upgrades to Windows every few years, punctuated by one or more “service packs” to keep systems current. The company has also taken to an approach of releasing multiple versions of its current platform, Vista, a practice which Jobs jokes is misguided. “[With Leopard] everybody gets the ‘Ultimate’ edition and it sells for 129 bucks, and if you go on Amazon and look at the Ultimate edition of Vista, it sells for 250 bucks.”
Microsoft also expects its next operating system, currently codenamed Windows 7, to remain in development until 2010, a timeframe which may give Apple the chance to release two more major upgrades.
Charles Wolf, author of the industry newsletter Wolf Bytes, comments on recent market share gains by noting that of the 100 million or so visitors now coming to Apple’s retail stores each year, he estimates that 60 to 70 million are Windows users drawn in by the iPod or iPhone. Some of these people may potentially switch over to the Mac platform, says Wolf.
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Yes, I’m sure you’ve heard. Strange bedfellows… perhaps. Also notice that I used the Wall Street Ticker symbol for Microsoft and that Facebook does not have one. They kind of want to go public, like Google, Inc. did. There was a time not too long ago that they were simply a company, now they are part of the American economic engine, which is faltering pretty hard. Notice how the yen is stronger, the canadian dollar is EQUAL, and the Euro, well… lets not go there.
The fact of the matter is Zuckerboy is gonna win no matter who buys the book. i knew the first time i even heard of Facebook, Dang,
that. is. a Go-o-o-d idea. Opening it outside of the .edu system kinda stinks tho, becuase now it is getting ruined like myspace. Which of course opens the door for someone else to do the SAME THING. With-out the pokes i’m thinking tho.
Remember the good ole days. Kiss ‘em goodbye. Facebook is filled with some marketers, but like Scoble says, its his rolodex these days. Link-in eat your heart out. Facebook zombie apps rule.
So will MSFT buy it? i doubt it. i bet they will pour more ad money into it, but that is kind of stupid. If they buy facebook, even for 5 to 10 billion, it is a good buy due to brand equity. MSFT has become an old grandpa and facebook is the promising whooper snapper, if they hiot the skate park together and share a malted milk, it will get the kid some treats and gramps the ability to wear, the coolest grandpa ever t-shirt and bragging rights.
So strange bedfellows yes, relatives in the same house, seems MUCH more likely and honestly makes for better blogging.
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