Moore’s Tech Web Reader - Friday, October 19, 2007
Apple woos business with Unix-friendly Mac OS X Leopard
The Future of G4 iMacs in the Age of Leopard
It's Official: Apple's Number Three In The U.S.
RIAA Aims Lawyers At Usenet Newsgroup Service
How To Get Colour Composite-video From An Apple TV
Upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard Guide Posted
Why Users Ditch OS X for Windows
DS2 Introduces 400Mbps Powerline Communications Technology
eWEEK: Environmental Center Threatens Suit Against Apple
eWEEK: Apple Promises Third-Party SDK for iPhone, iPod Touch
PC Mag: The Newspaper Killers
eWEEK: Facebook to Crash the Online Advertising Party
The Mac Night Owl: Waiting for Leopard Book II: The Real Marquee Feature
Desktop Linux: It's here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives
Reports: Apple's U.S. Market Share Now 8.1%. Or is it 6.3%?
Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Dueling reports from Gartner and IDC show Apple grabbing a larger slice of domestic computer market in the third quarter of 2007, although the reports disagree about just how large that slice is.
Gartner has Apple's market share climbing to 8.1%, up from 6.2% a year earlier.
IDC also shows strong growth for the company, but by its calculations, Apple now commands a 6.3% market share, up from 5.7% last summer.
Their findings are summarized in the charts below........
You can check it out here.
Apple woos business with Unix-friendly Mac OS X Leopard
itnews.com's Paul McDougall reports:
Beyond its Unix credentials, Leopard comes with a preinstalled version of Bootcamp - software that allows users to run Windows applications on a Macintosh..
As part of its push to grab a bigger share of the business computing market, Apple is touting the fact that its forthcoming Mac OS X Leopard operating system is fully Unix compliant - meaning the software will run many of the applications typically used in large corporations. Because it's Unix-based, Leopard offers a number of features that could appeal to business IT managers. Among other things, Leopard is compliant with POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface), a standard designed to ensure that code authored for one POSIX system will work on another....
Beyond its Unix credentials, Leopard comes with a preinstalled version of Bootcamp - software that allows users to run Windows applications on a Macintosh. That could help Apple overcome the dearth of business applications currently available for the Mac OS. Still, Apple has a long way to go if it's to make a splash in the business computing market......
For the full report visit here:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=63325
The Future of G4 iMacs in the Age of Leopard
Low End Mac's Dan Knight says:
Apple has announced the system requirements for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard": a drive that can read the DVD install disc, at least 512 MB of memory, and an 867 MHz G4 or better.
That said, we've heard from the field that if you install Leopard on a supported G4 Mac and move the drive to another G4 Mac, it works, so there is hope for running Leopard on G4 iMacs. That being the case, it should also be possible to connect an unsupported G4 iMac to a supported PowerPC Mac in Target Disk Mode and install Leopard that way. Another option should be to use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone a PowerPC Leopard installation onto the internal hard drive
Time will tell..
For the full report visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/musings/mm07/1018.html
It's Official: Apple's Number Three In The U.S.
BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl reports:
The latest PC market share figures from Gartner just landed in my inbox about an hour ago, and they are very interesting.
By Gartner's reckoning — and it should be noted that these are estimates — Apple has finally surpassed both Gateway (now part of Acer) and Toshiba to make it into third place in the U.S. PC market behind leaders Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
For the full report click here.
RIAA Aims Lawyers At Usenet Newsgroup Service
The Register's Cade Metz reports:
The Recording Industry Ass. of America has now attacked a company that provides access to internet newsgroups.
Last Friday, RIAA lawyers chucked a federal lawsuit at Usenet.com, claiming that the Fargo, North Dakota newsgroup service "enables and encourages" people to swap copyrighted music.
The organization that represents the country's big-name record labels is convinced that Usenet.com infringes copyrights in ways that extend well beyond peer-to-peer file-sharing services....
According to Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital watchdog, the RIAA has long fought behind the scenes to shutdown access to binary newsgroups.
For the full report click here.
How To Get Colour Composite-video From An Apple TV
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
I've been playing with Apple's Apple TV set-top box this week, and I have to say I like it. But Apple's missing a trick by not allowing those of us - me included - without HD TVs to make the most of the device. No matter: a simple hardware trick solves the problem.
I've found Apple TV to be a great way of getting content not simply from a computer onto a TV, but for taking the computer (almost) out of the equation. My approach isn't for everyone - plenty of Register Hardware readers have way more downloaded music and video content, in a broader array of formats than I have, but I like to keep things simple.
For the full tutorial visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/18/eb_apple_tv_composite_hack/
Upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard Guide Posted
switchtoamac.com says:
This guide will describe the process of upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard. As Leopard has not been released yet, we've compiled this information based on our expectations and experience with previous upgrades of Mac OS X. This guide will get you to start thinking about the steps involved a Mac OS X upgrade. If this will be your first ever Mac OS X upgrade, you'll want to pay close attention. We describe the process in a few high-level steps. Before we get started, we'd like to point out that you will want to verify the system requirements as outlined by Apple. If you have a recent Mac, you'll shouldn't have any problems upgrading to Leopard.
To check it out, click here.
Why Users Ditch OS X for Windows
OSWeekly's Matt Hartley says:
Despite my continued reluctance to make the OS X plunge, I'm amazed that Windows users who are looking to upgrade their existing computers are automatically considering Vista as the best option.
After looking into this closely, the reason why the casual user is still buying PCs despite hassles with Windows is not the common reasons that many Mac owners might suspect. It's cost, pure and simple.
Macs Do Cost More for Comparable Power, But it May Be Worth it in the End. If one more person points me to a Mini and tells me this is going to replace a 2.00GHz PC with standalone video and a SATA drive, I'm going to scream. Despite Apple providing a superior OS for the casual consumer, it remains a price issue for most people.
You take any unsuspecting cash conscious family and if you actually tell me that they are going to be willing to drop $1,099 versus $499 on a notebook for their child, you had better present one serious sales pitch. Even considering the long-term value, malware-free environment, those parents would be presenting their soon to be college aged kid, the fact is they are not informed enough to understand that the $499 notebook is an utter junk, thanks to poor hardware quality.
For the full commentary click here.
DS2 Introduces 400Mbps Powerline Communications Technology
[ Press Release ]
DS2 has announced that it has developed technology that will allow next generation powerline products to operate at a peak data rate of 400Mbps. This milestone will enable the development of new HD-capable multimedia applications, such as multi-channel HD-IPTV delivery or multi-room PVR.
Demonstrations of the 400 Mbps powerline technology will be featured at the invitation only technology launch in New York City next month.
DS2 400Mbps technology will be available in next generation products from DS2 on time to satisfy the demands for extra bandwidth in the digital home and last mile applications that most analysts predict will happen from 2009 onwards. Next generation multimedia applications including multi-room IPTV and HDTV networked entertainment services, networked PVRs (personal video recorders) and multiple video streams will require bandwidth sufficient to support 5 or more simultaneous video streams.
A recent study from the Diffusion Group on "Bandwidth Challenges to the Digital Home" (2007), confirmed that the need for bandwidth sufficient to deliver at least 3 HDTV and 2 SDTV streams to the home is foreseen as early as 2009.
DS2's 400 Mbps technology will be compatible with existing 200Mbps products from DS2, ensuring a seamless migration path for existing users and designs, and will comply with the evolving standards. This quantum leap in performance is slated for 2009.
Jose Calero, CTO at DS2 stated, "Increased bandwidth requirements for multimedia networking applications is one of the key requirements that suppliers to the home networking, networked entertainment and last-mile BPL markets are looking for from future technology specifications. We are well on the way to developing our 3rd generation technology to ensure that suppliers will have the products available to meet the demand for multimedia applications in the future.
These results are very exciting and demonstrate that we will be able to achieve the rates required to sustain the multimedia applications of the future over powerline or coax".
The new technology builds on the success of DS2's 200 Mbps technology, already deployed and tested by leading operators that include Belgacom, British Telecom, Portugal Telecom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and Telia Sonera; global electricity utilities such as Endesa, Electricite de France, and Iberdrola and vendors of networking products including Buffalo, D-Link, Comtrend, Corinex Communications and Netgear. During 2008 DS2´s roadmap includes the delivery of additional features in the 200 Mbps technology, as well as reducing manufacturing costs, to give DS2 the edge in meeting customer demand for increased customization of today's powerline enabled multimedia applications.
DS2 will continue to maintain its low-cost leadership with this 400 Mbps generation as well.
Big Media Gangs Up On Pirates, File Sharers
The Register's John Oates reports:
A large group of media giants is poised to announce a new system for copyrighting content on t'internet.
The US edition of the Wall Street Journal reports CBS, Microsoft, News Corp's Fox and MySpace units, NBC, Viacom, and Walt Disney are all part of the group. Reuters has more here.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/18/media_bigwigs_copyright_effort/
eWEEK: Environmental Center Threatens Suit Against Apple
The group says levels of a toxic substance in the iPhone exceeds California state limits.
To read more, go to:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201672,00.asp
eWEEK: Apple Promises Third-Party SDK for iPhone, iPod Touch
After silence on the subject, Apple promises a path for third-party applications on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
To read more, go to:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2200868,00.asp
PC Mag: The Newspaper Killers
These are the Web sites, services, and apps that have your local newspaper fearing for its life.
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2200558,00.asp
eWEEK: Facebook to Crash the Online Advertising Party
CEO Mark Zuckerberg parries dogged questions about online advertising.
To read more, go to:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201115,00.asp
The Mac Night Owl: Waiting for Leopard Book II: The Real Marquee Feature
All right, with a genuine 316 new features and enhancements in Leopard, you can probably talk all day about the ones that appeal to you. But you only read, most times at any rate, about a handful of sexy features that, while useful in and of themselves, may not be the most important reasons to buy an operating system upgrade for your Mac.
For the full report click here.
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Desktop Linux: It's here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives
"Ubuntu users rejoice. Ubuntu 7.10 is here.
Ubuntu, the remarkably popular desktop Linux distribution that tries to bring the latest and greatest open-source programs every six months, arrived Oct. 18. The Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition includes improvements in advanced plug-and-play printing, enhanced browsing and the option of a smooth new user interface built on top of the new GNOME 2.20 desktop."
To read more, go to:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9663741090.html
Charles W. Moore
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