Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Thursday, March 6, 2008
Dell and Apple Make Gains in Q4 PC Market
256GB MacBook Air by 2009?
The Trouble With Steve Jobs
MacFormat Issue 193 On Sale Now
CrossOver Will Finally Do What Everyone Actually Wants
Taiwan Suppliers Benefited by Increasing MacBook Air NB Shipments
RiffRumble IX Song Contest: $2500 in Prizes for the Best RiffWorks Songs
The Mac Night Owl: Apple Say's Everything's Great - Wall Street Says Not So Fast!
Gene Steinberg meets Macworld's Jason Snell, commentator Kirk McElhearn and Benjamin Rudolph of Parallels this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE
Dell and Apple Make Gains in Q4 PC Market
iSuppli reports:
The fourth quarter of 2007 was a strong period for the top-tier U.S. PC brands, with Hewlett-Packard Co. continuing to pad its dominance in the global market, Dell Inc. showing signs of a resurgence and Apple Inc. coming on strong, according to iSuppli Corp....
After HP and Dell, the next U.S.-based PC OEM in iSuppli's preliminary rankings is Apple, ranked just below the Top-5 brands at No. 6, a position the company has held since the third quarter of 2007. The company's total fourth-quarter PC shipments grew 39.3 percent year-on-year, with equally strong growth for its desktop and notebook businesses.
For the full report visit here:
http://isuppli.com/news/default.asp?id=8844
For more information, visit:
http://www.isuppli.com
256GB MacBook Air by 2009?
Macworld UK's Agam Shah and Sumner Lemon report:
Samsung Electronics could deliver 256GB solid-state drives next year, quadrupling the capacity of SSDs it is currently shipping to computer makers, the company said.
The company is due to ship samples of 128GB SSDs in the middle of this year.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=20628
The Trouble With Steve Jobs
Fortune's Peter Elkind reports:
In October 2003, as the computer world buzzed about what cool new gadget he would introduce next, Apple CEO Steve Jobs - then presiding over the most dramatic corporate turnaround in the history of Silicon Valley - found himself confronting a life-and-death decision.
During a routine abdominal scan, doctors had discovered a tumor growing in his pancreas. While a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often tantamount to a swiftly executed death sentence, a biopsy revealed that Jobs had a rare - and treatable - form of the disease. If the tumor were surgically removed, Jobs' prognosis would be promising: The vast majority of those who underwent the operation survived at least ten years.
Yet to the horror of the tiny circle of intimates in whom he'd confided, Jobs was considering not having the surgery at all. A Buddhist and vegetarian, the Apple CEO was skeptical of mainstream medicine. Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet - a course of action that hasn't been disclosed until now.....
For the full report visit here:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?cnn=yes
IBM Gets Back Into PCs
The Register's Kelly Fiveash reports:
IBM is getting back into the PC game - or at least it is in Eastern Europe.
The company sold its PC business and brands to Chinese hardware maker Lenovo in 2005 and this time round is partnering with an Austrian company to make the actual boxes and with a Polish firm to distribute them.
The Microsoft-free boxes will be made by Austrian firm VDEL, and Warsw-based LX Polska will act as distributor. The computers will be called "Open Referent" and are based on IBM's Lotus Open Collaboration Client Solution marketing initiative with Red Hat.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/05/ibm_open_referent/
MacFormat Issue 193 On Sale Now
[ Press Release ]
60 Apple gems: get more from your Mac with our favourite budget apps!
We bring you 60 of the very best free or inexpensive apps to enrich your Mac life
What's more, the majority of applications mentioned in our main feature can be found on the DVD. Whether it's everyday tasks like phone calls, word processing or sleeping (yes, we have apps to help you sleep!), playing games, using the net or keeping your Mac healthy, we have an indispensable program to do the job.
Also this month, we explain in detail how the iPhone's WiFi location works, and Christopher Phin goes on the road with Vodafone's USB modem, trying his hand at liveblogging from San Francisco: is this device worth buying? Read his diary to find out.
Also this issue
Tutorials
Turn a grey sky blue with Photoshop
Make an iDVD slideshow
Create widgets with Safari 3
Make your Mac child-proof
Control your Mac over the net
And more…
Reviews
Apple MacBook Air 1.6GHz
Apple iPod touch 32GB
Creative T40 Gigaworks
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac SME
Elgato EyeTV 3
And more…
Mac questions answered
Drive partitioning; restricting Time Machine usage; speeding up your Mac after installing Leopard; a MacBook crashing since Leopard; managing an Office 2008 update and more…
On the DVD
Three full programs: Jigsaw Puzzle 1.1, Schreiben 2.4 and Pano2Movie 1.2.1 plus German lessons, guitar tutorials, hot demos and more…
It's all in MacFormat issue 193, on sale now....
For more information, visit:
http://www.macformat.co.uk/page/macformat?entry=macformat_issue_193_on_sale
CrossOver Will Finally Do What Everyone Actually Wants
MacUser's Dan Pourhadi says:
Let's be honest: nobody uses Windows-on-Mac tech for anything productive or important. There's all this nonsense about running Windows-only business apps, or taking advantage of Microsoft technologies like Windows DRM, or ensuring better file compatibility with coworkers and friends. But that's crap. There's only one thing people want from Windows virtualization.
Games.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.macuser.com/games/crossover_will_finally_do_what.php?lsrc=murss
Taiwan Suppliers Benefited by Increasing MacBook Air NB Shipments
CENS reports:
Most key parts and the assembly works of Apple`s MacBook Air, the world`s thinnest notebook PC model, are produced and handled by Taiwan-based companies, according to industry sources.
AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), the largest manufacturer of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in Taiwan, supplies LED-backlight 13.3-inch display to MacBook Air with a monthly value of NT$500 million (US$15.63 million at US$1: NT$32). Kenmos Technology Co., Ltd. and Nano Electro-Optical Technology Co., Ltd. (Nano-Op), Taiwanese suppliers of the super-thin backlight units for the 13.3-inch TFT-LCD displays, are also expected to benefit from increasing MacBook Air shipments.
For the full report visit here:
http://cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_22610.html
RiffRumble IX Song Contest: $2500 in Prizes for the Best RiffWorks Songs
[ Press Release ]
Sonoma Wire Works announces RiffRumble IX, an online song contest for RiffWorksTM recording software users. Entries will be accepted March 12 - March 25, 2008. Contestants will compete for $2500 in prizes including a Line 6 Variax Acoustic 700 Guitar, TonePortTM UX2 USB audio interface, RiffWorks InstantDrummer sessions by Submersible Music, Recording Magazine subscriptions, and RiffWorld.com online collaboration memberships.
Three Categories to Win:
Line 6's Choice: The song chosen by Line 6 wins a Variax Acoustic 700 guitar, Recording Magazines, 1 yr. Creator Membership for RiffWorld Online Collaboration, and 5 RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions by Submersible Music
Contestants' Choice: The song that receives the most votes from the contestants wins a TonePort UX2, Recording Magazines, 1 yr. Creator Membership for RiffWorld Online Collaboration, and winner's choice of 25 InstantDrummer Sessions
Popular Choice: The song that receives the most votes from the public receives Recording Magazines, 1 yr. Creator Membership for RiffWorld Online Collaboration, and 5 RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions by Submersible Music
Record an original song using RiffWorks Standard or RiffWorks Line 6 Edition. Submit one song to enter all three categories. Voting takes place March 26 - April 1.
RiffWorks easy-to-use guitar recording software includes automatic track creation, loop recording, guitar-oriented effects, InstantDrummer, professionally recorded drum tracks, online music collaboration, and song posting. RiffWorld.com rolls it all into a friendly online community with song contests and more.
RiffWorks Standard Pricing and Availability: $129 MSRP.
Sonoma Wire Works Website:
http://www.sonomawireworks.com
RiffWorks:
http://www.sonomawireworks.com/riffworks.php
Download:
http://www.sonomawireworks.com/riffworksdemo.php
Purchase:
http://www.sonomawireworks.com/riffworkspricing.php
Contest and Prize Details:
http://www.riffworld.com/riffrumble/riffrumbleix RiffWorks
The Mac Night Owl: Apple Say's Everything's Great - Wall Street Says Not So Fast!
Welcome to the nasty world of disconnect, where a high-flying company can say anything it wants, even if true, and the stock market prefers to look for troubling news.
.
To read more, click here
Notes: You can also access our RSS feed, available at:
http://www.macnightowl.com/rss
Or our Atom feed at:
http://www.macnightowl.com/atom
Gene Steinberg meets Macworld's Jason Snell, commentator Kirk McElhearn and Benjamin Rudolph of Parallels this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE
During this week's all-star episode, the Night Owl gets down and dirty with the MacBook Air. Is this the perfect road warrior's appliance, or can it serve well for both desktop and travel?
You'll get answers from two devoted MacBook Air owners, commentator Kirk McElhearn and Macworld's Editorial Director, Jason Snell. In addition, Jason, a TV buff, will discuss a few highlights of the truncated TV season -- lessons learned from the writer's strike?
In another show segment, Benjamin Rudolph of Parallels will talk about the latest features of Parallels Desktop and the ongoing development of Parallels Server.
You can tune into the broadcast Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at
http://www.techbroadcasting.com
Our new chat room will also be open for listener participation. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.
You can also access our show's Podcast feed, now available at:
http://www.techbroadcasting.com/nightowl.xml
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
|
|
|
|
| |