http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 06:28:45 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19718/iMacs_10th_Anniversary/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19718/iMacs_10th_Anniversary/ "Today, I'm incredibly pleased to introduce iMac, our consumer product. And iMac comes from the marriage of the excitement of the internet, with the simplicity of the Macintosh." With these words, ten years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the product that would literally save Apple from certain doom. The all-in-one, translucent computer would become a revolutionary product. Tue, 06 May 2008 15:53:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19702/Review:_PsyStar_OpenComputer/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19702/Review:_PsyStar_OpenComputer/ The soap surrounding PsyStar, the company that offers a Mac clone for sale, just keeps on running. After the initial launch, the company was plagued by doubt and mystery surrounding its actual existence, but soon after videos started popping up of the OpenComputer out in the wild, beyond the company itself. Thanks to CNet, the company may now have fully redeemed itself. Thu, 01 May 2008 09:10:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 67 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19693/PsyStar_OpenComputer_Starts_Shipping_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19693/PsyStar_OpenComputer_Starts_Shipping_/ Some more information regarding PsyStar and its Opencomputer have surfaced, that try to dispel some of the doubts surrounding the company. Last week, the company posted a video online that supposedly showed the inside of the company, as wel as a bunch of OpenComputers running Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows XP. In addition, a Gizmodo reader has sent a video to Gizmodo where he shows off his OpenComputer. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:36:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 45 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News Innova http://www.osnews.com/story/19676/Apple_Sees_Strong_Mac_Sales_iPhone_Sales_Drop_Sharply/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19676/Apple_Sees_Strong_Mac_Sales_iPhone_Sales_Drop_Sharply/ Yesterday (well, CET in any case), Apple posted its financial results for the second quarter of the 2008 fiscal year (which ended 29 March). While sales of Macintosh laptops and desktops soared to ever greater heights, and while sales of the iPod consolidated itself, the news is not so good for the iPhone. And the dodo will have an Apple TV to play with, soon. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:52:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 62 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19672/Apple_Buys_Chip_Designer/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19672/Apple_Buys_Chip_Designer/ Does anyone remember the chip start-up P.A. Semi? This company made its rounds around the internet in 2005, when it lifted the veil of secrecy on a new, highly efficient PowerPC processor it had been working on. 2005 Being the year that Apple announced its switch to Intel, people started to doubt Apple's reasons. A few months later, in May 2006, it became known that Apple had been working with P.A. Semi right before Apple made the switch. P.A. Semi released their chip a year later, and now the company has been bought by... Apple. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:19:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 32 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News Francis Kuntz http://www.osnews.com/story/19643/Suspicions_Soar_About_Mac_Clone_Maker_PsyStar/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19643/Suspicions_Soar_About_Mac_Clone_Maker_PsyStar/ Two days ago, the news that a company called Psystar was offering a Mac clone made quite some waves across the net. They were offering their Open Computer, a standard x86 machine, which they could pre-load with Mac OS X Leopard."We're not breaking any laws,", they insisted. ComputerWorld and The Guardian did some digging around, and found some discrepancies. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:09:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 39 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News jello http://www.osnews.com/story/19636/IBM_Launches_Pilot_Program_for_Migrating_to_Mac/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19636/IBM_Launches_Pilot_Program_for_Migrating_to_Mac/ As further evidence of the growing interest in Macs among enterprise customers, IBM's Research Information Services launched an internal pilot program designed to study the possibility of moving significant numbers of employees to the Mac platform. The study has already found an enthusiastic response from participants and is helping to drive Mac support for IBM's business applications. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:33:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Apple 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News Hakime http://www.osnews.com/story/19631/Psystar_Offers_USD_400_Mac_Clone/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19631/Psystar_Offers_USD_400_Mac_Clone/ The website of a Miami-based networking and security solutions reseller became inaccessible Monday, shortly after the company began advertising an unauthorized Mac clone for a fraction of the cost of Apple's cheapest system. Dubbed OpenMac, the USD 400 offering from Psystar Corporation is described as 'a low-cost high-performance computing platform' based on the ongoing OSX86Project - a hacker-based initiative aimed at maintaining a version of the Mac OS X operating system for everyday PCs. The website is back online now, and the machine has been renamed to Open Computer. Update: Psystar says they will continue to sell the Open Computer system, despite the fact that it appears to violate Apple's EULA. "We're not breaking any laws," they insisted. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:44:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 141 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19535/Safari_on_Windows:_Decidedly_Not_Illegal_Font_Fixes/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19535/Safari_on_Windows:_Decidedly_Not_Illegal_Font_Fixes/ The web has been abuzz the past two days with the 'news' that it was supposedly illegal to run Safari for Windows on anything but an Apple-branded computer. It was obviously a mistake, so I decided to run no story on it. Now, however, it has specifically been fixed by Apple; Ars decided to phone Apple PR, and they fixed the issue. The WebKit guys also offer a fix for the 'fuzzy fonts' issue on Safari for Windows. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:32:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 59 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19520/Safari_3.1_on_Windows:_a_True_Competitor_Arrives_(Seriously)/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19520/Safari_3.1_on_Windows:_a_True_Competitor_Arrives_(Seriously)/ "While pundits have been lamenting the fact that Apple's 'software update' program on Windows is now pushing Safari 3.1 to users, we thought we'd check out Safari 3.1 to find out if Apple has made any real progress on the Windows version of this browser. After all, it's about the software, right? We put the Safari 3 beta on Windows through the wringer last summer, and we weren't too terribly impressed. The problems were significant, such that we'd have a hard time recommending the browser to any Windows user. As of last summer, Firefox was still the Windows browser of choice here at Ars. Have things improved for Safari? Wow, have they." Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:34:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 65 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19511/Why_Apple_Fans_Hate_Tech_Reporters/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19511/Why_Apple_Fans_Hate_Tech_Reporters/ "There are many tribes in the tech world: TiVo lovers, Blackberry addicts, Palm Treo fanatics, and people who exhibit unhealthy affection for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners. But there is no bigger tribe, and none more zealous, than fans of Apple, who are infamous for their sensitivity to slams, real or imagined, against the beloved company. "It's funny - even if I write a generally positive piece about Apple, I still get more complaints from Apple partisans" than from opponents, Mossberg says. He has even coined a term for the effect. "I call it the Doctrine of Insufficient Adulation." Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:18:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 65 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News marc anton http://www.osnews.com/story/19501/Apple_Launches_Safari_for_Windows/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19501/Apple_Launches_Safari_for_Windows/ Apple has released the first version of its browser, Safari, for Windows. Safari 3.1, which was launched on Tuesday, will run on Windows XP or Vista and, of course, Mac OSX. Apple released a beta for the Windows-supporting version in June last year. Apple has claimed that the browser is the fastest available for Windows. In a Tuesday statement, Cupertino said it "loads web pages 1.9 times faster than [Internet Explorer] 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 [and] runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers". Don't think you have Safari for Windows installed? You might want to check again. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:37:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 72 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19468/An_Insight_Into_the_Woz/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19468/An_Insight_Into_the_Woz/ "Apple co-founder and icon Steve Wozniak visited Australia last week to deliver a speech on how technology will continue to enhance our lives. Woz, as he is affectionately known as, is not shy in coming forward. On any topics. Here we gathered a collection of bite sized snippets that we found to be insightful and down right amusing." Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:39:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News Ward D http://www.osnews.com/story/19447/Snap_Sun_Decision_Launches_Java_at_iPhone/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19447/Snap_Sun_Decision_Launches_Java_at_iPhone/ El Reg reports: "Less than a day after Apple unveiled its much-discussed iPhone SDK, Sun Microsystems has told the world it will build a Java Virtual Machine for Steve Job's handheld status symbol. 'We're very excited,' Eric Klein, Sun's vice president of Java marketing, told the The Reg. 'We've spent the last 24 hours furiously looking through what information was made publicly available, and we feel comfortable enough at this point on the information we have to commit the engineering resources to bring the JVM over to the iPhone and the iTouch as fast as our schedules and Apple's release schedule will allow.'" Sun plans to distribute the JVM free of cost via the App store. Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:07:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Apple 51 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News Moochman http://www.osnews.com/story/19438/The_iPhone_Opens_up_for_Business/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19438/The_iPhone_Opens_up_for_Business/ After months of strict control, Apple welcomes software developers to build applications for the iconic gadget--and also gives it entree into Corporate America. The iTunes-controlled service will be free for iPhone users, but there will be a nominal fee for iPod Touch users. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:03:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Apple 52 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News