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Amiga head says new AmigaOS 5 "better than OS X"

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:05:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I too was shocked to hear they were still trying to become a "player". I knew they were still around but had no clue as to why...

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

Sure, we know you and your Video Toaster have been gutted over this whole AmigaOS 4 debacle... what's that? You've never heard of OS 4? You didn't know Amiga was still around? You hadn't heard that Bill McEwan, CEO of Amiga says the company's next OS is going to be "better than OS X?" Well time to perk up those ears, kiddo. In a truly enthralling read, the head of the ~~defunct~~ hardware-maker / software company says that Amiga is hard at work on a number of projects, not the least of which is the follow up to company's OS 4 -- which has been mired in development disputes with a company called Hyperion Entertainment since 2001 -- AmigaOS 5. A piece of software guaranteed to surprise and thrill the technology community at large, mostly (we suspect) due to the fact that no one even knew the company was still in business. Sure, some of the detractors say they haven't released a product in seven years, but what's seven years when you've got that pile of platinum that is OS 5? Exactly.

Tags: amiga, technology, os x, apple, mac

Palm selling 25% to Elevation Partners

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:13:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hopefully this will get them to get there buts in gear and come out with a kick ass new replacement for the treo.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - As expected, shareholders of struggling Palm Inc. approved Wednesday the partial sale of the company to a private equity firm and a change in the board's makeup.

Under the capital restructuring, Elevation Partners will pay $325 million in cash for a 25 percent stake in the company, and Palm will pay a special distribution of $9 per share, or about $940 million in cash, to shareholders for their reduction in ownership.

Palm will also get a new executive board chair — Jonathan Rubinstein, the former head of Apple Inc.'s iPod division — after the transaction closes.

Elevation partners Fred Anderson, Apple's former chief financial officer, and Roger McNamee, a veteran Silicon Valley investor, will also join the board, replacing outgoing directors Eric Benhamou and Bruce Dunlevie. D. Scott Mercer, who previously announced his resignation, will remain on the board.

Jobs giving all iPhone owners a $100 apple gift cert.

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:10:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow, that's a pretty sweet deal.

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

El Jobso is "confident" Apple's made the right decision to lower the price of the iPhone yesterday -- and really, we can't fault them for knocking some cash off the top to attract new buyers, why is cheaper gear a bad thing all of a sudden? But even given the outcry, we definitely didn't see this one coming. In another open letter to his people, Jobs states that he's giving all iPhone owners a $100 Apple gift certificate (details to follow in the next week -- it goes without saying this will only apply to people who bought before the price drop). Well, that's mighty kind of you Steve. And definitely unprecedented in the consumer electronics industry that a company would give cash back to early adopters -- those most accustomed to buying a gadget first, asking questions later, and bottling their complaints when said gadget later drops dramatically in price.

Tags: apple, steve jobs, iphone

Apple now designing car interfaces...

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:07:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think bmw tried something like this and nobody like it. I guess we'll see.

Clip Source: www.autoblog.com

That's a direct quote from, not Martin Winterkorn at Volkswagen, but Ian Callum, the design director for Jaguar, as quoted by CAR magazine. Callum says Jaguar's new XF's start button "starts to pulsate" when the driver gets into the car. Once running, the car's hidden air vents "rise up" and the JaguarDrive Selector pops up from the console. Actual buttons are kept to a min.

Sounds all very high-tech and somewhat Apple-like. The pulsating start button is very reminiscent of Apple computers' power indicator lights.

So now we have Apple confirmed to be working with Jaguar and rumored to be working with Volkswagen and Mercedes. Another item of interest we came across in researching this post is a Macrumors story which says it heard about the CAR interview with Callum from Macrumors reader -- get this -- Chris Bangle. Could it be? Nah.

Tags: apple, jaguar, interface, automobile

Play Mario Bros. on your iPhone!

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:20:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Though I will prob never own an iPhone and really could care less if I ever do, this is still really cool!

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

Yeah, the floodgates have opened, and we promise not to bug you with every new app to come down the pipe, but we figured you'd want to know when you can get your Mario on. Video is after the break.

Tags: iphone, emulator, technology, apple

New iMac keyboard?

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:44:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Looks pretty sweet to me!

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

See that? That's the rumored, "super slim," brushed aluminum keyboard said to be accompanying Apple's new iMac computer. It certainly appears to share the key design of the MacBook like we heard but seeing "Photoshop" in the exif data doesn't give us a high degree of confidence here. Regardless, a forum jockey over at the Rhapsody Apple forum in Hong Kong will sell you the keyboard (s/he has more than one) for 1,200 of the local stuff or about $153.40. Word to the wise, the consensus amongst rumor sites shows the new iMac coming as early as August 7th so you might want to hold onto that wad for a few more days to see what happens. We've got a bigger version of that image above along with the Apple development team sticker ~~reportedly~~ affixed to the backside of the unit in the gallery below.

Tags: apple, imac, keyboard, technology

A Worm for your Apple?

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:01:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It was only a matter of time. Maybe now some of those "my mac is so secure" people will sit down and think twice before bragging...

Clip Source: www.beskerming.com

When the first report was published on Sunday, InfoSec Sellout was claiming that the proof-of-concept worm was able to reliably deliver root and was based on a variation of mDNSResponder vulnerabilities that Apple had previously patched. InfoSec Sellout later disclosed that the worm was first completed on July 14, with functional testing on a network of approximately 1,500 OS X systems by the 16th of July.

In its first instance the worm only left a text file as evidence that it had been on a system, but it is reported that the worm can fully be 'weaponised' with the payload of choice (and it can achieve that result at this time). While InfoSec Sellout states that the worm only seeks out other systems on the same network for infection, they point out that it is not going to take much extra work for the worm to attack a much broader network segment.

Tags: apple, virus, worm, technology

iPhone, will it blend?...

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:03:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this may make some people cry..

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

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Tags: iphone, apple

Steve Jobs announces free iPhones to 17,787 employees!

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:16:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: that's a pretty nice perk!

Clip Source: www.thinksecret.com

June 28, 2007 - At a town-hall meeting with employees Thursday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that all full-time Apple employees will receive a free 8GB iPhone, while part-time employees who have been with the company for more than a year will also receive a free iPhone.

The phones are expected to be delivered to employees by the end of July, after initial consumer demand has subsided. According to Yahoo! Finance, Apple has 17,787 full-time employees.

This is not the first time Apple has givenfree product to its employees; in early 2005, the company rewarded all employees with a free 1GB iPod shuffle.

Tags: apple, iphone

iPhone... Not for business use?

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:57:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

It won't replace a BlackBerry. It's not good for text input. It's just not a business product.

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

The keyboard was simply described as "disappointing". Keyboarding with two thumbs often registers multiple key presses (two or three at a time) resulting in a lot of mistakes. The best way to type is with a single finger (as shown in most of Apple's demos), but two thumbs is supposedly very difficult. After trying it for a number of days our source gave up using their thumbs.

The text auto-correction only works well for simple words, but doesn't work for proper names. We can only assume this bit will get better with time as Apple fills out its predictive text dictionary.

In addition to its dock, the iPhone comes packaged with a polishing cloth (the thing's supposedly a fingerprint magnet, no surprise) and the usual smallish power adapter.

The touchscreen was said to, in general, require somewhat hard presses to register input, and needs some getting used to.

Tags: iphone, apple, cell phone, cellular, technology

Control your iPod with your watch wirelessly...

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:12:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.engadget.com

See that up there? That's a JPEG of a purported PPT slide supposedly sent to sporting goods distributors. Pretty much the easiest rumor premise imaginable to fake. Still, at the heart of any good rumor is an aura of plausibility right? Timex makes iPod docks and sporty i-Control watches while Apple is no stranger to the athletics world with their successful Nike+ collaboration. At the intersection of the two strategies then is this, the rumored Timex i-Control series of watches for wireless iPod control. Reasonable, sure. Coming in October? Who knows, we're still waiting around for those Nike Speed+ watches to hit.

Tags: ipod, apple, timex

Apple Says No to Asia

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:18:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cinematical.com

Not only do movie pirates ruin things for the studios and the cinemas, but now they're hurting the innocent citizens with no connection to the business, too. Thanks to such heavy piracy in all of Asia, there will be no iTunes movie store for billions of people living in that part of the world. Apple, who just announced their new movie downloads Tuesday, has said their new services are not available in Asia, and there's a good chance it will not be available anytime soon, if ever. Currently the music-only iTunes software has versions in Japan and Australia, but it isn't clear whether they will be given access to the new movies.

It's important to remember that before Apple introduced iTunes to the U.S., we had a huge problem with illegal music downloading, which, subsequently, was curbed significantly after its arrival. So, for Apple (or could it be the MPAA?) to deny nations with rampant piracy a service that may actually be beneficial to them and their anti-piracy campaigns is pretty stupid.

Tags: apple, itunes, media, asia, piracy

Television found to be a painkiller for kids

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:41:25 GMT

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Clip Source: gadgets.engadget.com

If you've spent more than five minutes around a kid, you're probably well aware that ripping him / her from the couch while their favorite cartoon rolls in the background isn't much easier than trying to get any solid deets on Apple's probably (not) impending iPhone (or similarly named product). Researchers in Italy took this seemingly well-known fact and put it to the test by drawing blood via hypodermic needle (rough way to prove a hypothesis, eh?) from a random sample of 72 children, all between the ages of 7-12. Not-so-surprisingly, little ones who were watching television while being stuck reported 50 percent less pain than kids who were being coaxed by dear old mom; the TV-watching subjects also claimed just one third the pain of those poor folks who endured the process while left alone without loving nor entertainment.

Tags: tv, television, painkiller

Apple Unwraps Power Mac Replacement

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:40:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Steve Job's announces no more power mac. Say hello to the intel based Mac Pro.

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

SAN FRANCISCO — At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday in San Francisco, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple, and his team announced their newest desktop computer, the Mac Pro. Although developers had speculated about a possible new iPod release, the crowd of developers and media seemed just as enthusiastic about the Mac Pro.

"In the first two quarters, we transitioned almost all of our products over to Intel except for one, and that is the Power Mac," Jobs said. "Well today, the Power Mac is going to fade into history."

Tags: apple, power mac, intel

Apple Boot Camp (Beta)

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:25:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Steve Jobs has officially given in to the idea of running Windows on a Mac.

A very smart move if you ask me. I think windows users will convert to mac harware simply for the style. If they have to use mac osx to setup boot camp so they can use windows on that hardware, it forces them to experience mac osx. Having always been a windows fan, I have to admit that I am now also a mac fan due to mac osx. I bet there hardware sales skyrocket over the next year.

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Apple is helping you install Windows! There is little reason not to get a Mac now, but keep in mind that Boot Camp is still a work in progress.

Steve Jobs has officially given in to the idea of running Windows on a Mac. Apple Boot Camp (Public Beta) is Apple's own version of dual booting Windows XP on an Intel based Mac, and it's now available for download on the Apple site. This download isn't for hacker-types; arguably its best feature is the user-friendly interface that lets average joes and janes dual-boot with ease. Apple successfully addresses BIOS issues and adds driver support for speakers and the video card, which will bring plenty of excitement to the gaming community. Boot Camp doesn't come without disclaimers: not everything works and your Windows partition will be open to virus attacks.

Tags: apple, boot camp, beta, software, windows, microsoft