According to Wired's 'Gadget Lab' blog, Snow Leopard's next update, OS X 10.6.2, will block the Atom processor and will disable many 'Hackintosh' netbooks . It is indeed true that OS X will run just fine on some netbooks if you install the r...
In a sign that ebooks are rising in popularity, a recent survey by mobile analytics company Flurry revealed that users may be using the iPhone for more intellectual pursuits, and not just the visual sizzle. The 'book-related' apps on the iPh...
Groklaw has an extensive look at the latest developments in the Psystar vs. Apple story . There's a nice picture illustrating the accusation by Apple that Psystar makes three unauthorized copies of OS X . The most interesting, however, is th...
Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish...
While the world focused on Microsoft's launch of Windows 7, Florida-based Psystar quietly launched Rebel EFI , a software product that should worry Apple a lot more than Microsoft's latest operating system. Rebel EFI allows users to run Appl...
Apple has replaced its ZFS project page with a notice that 'The ZFS project has been discontinued . The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly.' Apple originally touted ZFS as a feature that would be available in Snow Leopa...
On April 18, 2008, Apple Computer applied for a patent relating to an 'invention' that allows for showing advertisements within an operating system . The first named inventor on the patent application is none other than Steve Jobs. The paten...
Due to a strike with the UK's postal system, people in Great Britain are getting copies of Windows 7 early and have already posted their experiences about the install process. Some have an easy time but others post installs taking 3 hours in...
Today Apple announced several new hardware offerings , including a new Mac mini , their (almost-literally) pint-sized desktop computer. In a bizarre twist, they are now also offering a Mac mini with Mac OS X Server bundled in , along with a...
bth nods an AppleInsider story on a patent troll who has gotten hold of fundamental Ethernet patents and is weilding them broadly. Three guesses which US Appeals Court the lawsuit was filed in. A Texas company has targeted a number of techno...
Apple's Grand Central Dispatch, which was recently open sourced , has been ported to FreeBSD and is planned to be included by default in FreeBSD 8.1. Also known as libdispatch, the API allows the use of function-based callbacks but will also...
Turns out that while a few fortunes can be made with Apple, Steve Demeter made most of his money by buying Palm (of all companies) at $1.76 and selling at $12. Apparently, there aren't as many iPhone App millionaires as we would like to be b...
Over the weekend there's been a bit of controversy over the fact that Apple has effectively shut indie artists out of the iTunes LP market by charging $10,000 in design fees. But the real question is why Apple is in charge of designing the n...
inglishmayjer was one of several readers to send in the news of a major bug in Apple's new OS, 10.6 Snow Leopard, that can wipe out all user data for the administrator account. It is said to be triggered not every time by logging in to the G...
Australian supermarket Woolworth is on the receiving end of an action from Apple over Woolworth's new logo . The green, highly stylized 'W' logo could at best be described as 'apple-like.' As outlined in the article, Apple is taking similar...