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Of course you realize, this means war.

Fanboys exist for every favored computing platform. When you’ve been writing about computing for any number of years, such as I have, you are eventually going become the target of kooks â€" people who post completely random stuff on your blogs, send you crazy and inflamed emails, or write...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Macalope, Jason Perlow, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-04-23

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Of course you realize, this means war.

Of course you realize, this means war.Jason, that was superb.ntI disagree with you, Jason"Apple could significantly expand its market share by allowing Mac OS X to run legally on other hardware platforms"1. Writing an operating system for one set of hardware is way easier than for the "whatever" hardware. You...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, MacOS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., hardware, Jason, PC, Wintel, accident

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

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As regular readers know one of the big problems I see IT management facing every single day is the inability to identify and correct the misinformation senior executives pick up from the media and then unconsciously rely on to override our carefully researched and thought through recommendations. ...

Tags: Paul Murphy, Data, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Forbes, Notebooks, Analyst, IT manager, Desktops, PC, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Attack journalism: an iPhone example

Here's a comment from cnet contributor ripragged in response to a Macalope blog entry responding to an article about DRM - but entirely applicable in a different context: the essentially unanimous rejection of the iPhone by the paid IT analyst community: I'm trying...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Attack, Gruber, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Apple's growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at risk

Apple is clearly in a war with hackers over the iPhone and its most loyal fans could take a few hits. How Apple performs through these battles will determine the company's overall reputation going forward. Today's angst over iPhones becoming iBricks because they were modified is really just...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Customer Service, Consumer Reports, Apple Inc., Public Relations, Product Marketing, Hacking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Apple has a spectacular quarter

Apple has a spectacular quarterI'm a bit surprisedthat they are expecting less revenue in the third quarter, which I believe is the quarter in which the iPhone will be released. I know it's not a huge quarter for consumer cyclicals, but this is supposed to be their new big product.Not...

Tags: Desktops, Sales strategy, Apple Inc., desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-04-26

German researchers put final nail in WEP

German researchers put final nail in WEPWPA was widely available back thenWPA was widely available back then and there are newer versions of the DS still being sold. The need to PATCH it.Nintendo made the move on the Wii, don't be so quick to judge GeorgeThe Wii supports WEP,...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, WIRELESS, SECURITY, identity theft, WEP, WPA

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Hollywood wants to change iPod DRM

Hot on the heels of Microsofts deal with Universal Music a unit of Vivendi to pay a US$1 royalty on every Zune player sold in exchange for licensing its recordings for Microsofts new digital music service, Hollywood now wants in on the action.Why in the world would Microsoft agree to...

Tags: iPod, Music, iTunes, Movies, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-01

DNS fear mongering and Windows Vista

DNS fear mongering and Windows VistaOpenDNSI agree George.This is what I like to call 'borrowing trouble'.As web infrastructure continues to expand, so too will DNS.I personally have found using changing my DNS setting to point to [url=http://www.opendns.com]OpenDNS[/url] has made a big difference in overall web page retrieval times.Faster, safer DNS...

Tags: NETWORKING, Domain names, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, IPv6, DNS, IPv4, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-09-06