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While Apple is the famously fruity iPod and Mac company, a small upstart named Psystar has sought to steal a small amount of Apple’s thunder by producing clones of the famous Apple computers. Psystar took advantage of Apple’s recent conversion of all of its personal computers to use Intel microprocessors, the same microprocessors at the heart of ordinary PC’s, to make clones that (mostly) run Apple’s OS X software operating system. Of course, Psystar is not doing this out of benevolence, as its website proclaims: "Why spend $1999 to get the least expensive Apple computer with a decent video card...

There is much exuberance in the Mac orbit this week over news from market research and analysis firm Gartner Group that Apple has edged past Taiwan-based Acer into third-place spot for computer sales volume in the U.S. with 8.5 percent of the domestic personal computer market, although it still ranks sixth globally. However, domestically, according to Gartner estimates, Apple's sales now surpass all competitors save for for Dell and HP, showing amazing sales growth of 38.1 percent year-over-year, and that's with fourth-place Acer having gobbled up Gateway and Packard Bell whose sales are included in the Acer total. Gartner' market...

Ahead of the summer Olympics, Apple on Saturday will open the doors to its first retail store in China, a glass-enclosed high-profile shop situated in Beijing's newest retail development: the Village at Sanlitun. Keeping with his tradition of attending Apple's gala international retail launches, our friend Gary Allen from ifoAppleStore has made the grueling journey across the Pacific to be on hand for tomorrow's grand opening at 10:00 a.m. Allen reports that Apple's space within the Sanlitun complex "is nearly invisible from the street," because it sits within the center's inner courtyard. "But once you see it, it’s impressive --...

As Microsoft (MSFT) continues to waste time and resources figuring out how to win a sideline game it has already lost--Internet media--its shareholders have bigger things to worry about. Namely, the future of the Windows and Office cash cows. It has been so long since Microsoft had anything real to worry about in these businesses that it's easy to take their perpetual domination for granted. Don't. We've written frequently about the cloud computing threat: Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and other web-based services companies offering functionality and apps for free that Microsoft currently charges a boatload for. Microsoft is aware of this...

But Mac clone maker might counter with anti-competitive argumentApple Inc.'s demand that a Mac clone maker recall computers because the company installed Mac OS X on the machines may be an extreme measure, but it's hardly unprecedented, an intellectual property attorney said today. "It would be extreme because it would likely put Psystar out of business, but it's not a remedy that's coming out of the blue. It's not completely without precedent," said Carole Handler, a partner in the intellectual property (IP) department of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon. Handler is best known for her work on a case involving...

The national Internet service providers, AT&T and AOL, signed an agreement with state government to eliminate child pornography from the Internet, announced the office of state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, New York, on Thursday. As part of the agreement signed with Cuomo, the two Internet access providers agreed to work towards eliminating certain newsgroups that distribute child pornography online. A similar agreement was signed with Verizon Communications, Time Warner (News - Alert) Cable, and Sprint Nextel on June 10, 2008. The decision on making the service providers sign the agreement came after Cuomo’s office identified 88 different newsgroups that contained...

She's wanted - Dead or Alive. Her gamer tag is "Mystik" and she is a top-ranked player battling for world domination in the video gaming industry. Katherine Gunn, a 2006 Quartz Hill High graduate, is a professional "Dead or Alive 4" gamer who won a playoff spot in the Championship Gaming Series tournament this month at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. "Dead or Alive 4 (DOA4)" is the fourth game in Team Ninja's "Dead or Alive" series. It is an interactive fighting game based on avatars combining the skill of martial arts with assorted weapons to assassinate enemies. The...

Jerry and his ball From the Author: I built the ball machine because I thought my dog Jerry, might like it and that it would be something fun for me to build. So after two years of on and off work, with many safety features such as IR proximity sensors to protect Jerry and my son from the machine, I finally complete. Far from being a replacement for me, I was always right there with him enjoying his fun. And with all the troubles that I went through to build the ball machine, I still end up throwing more balls...

LOS ANGELES - In a bid to regain lost ground in the fiercely competitive gaming business, Sony announced Tuesday that it will cut the price of its high-end PlayStation 3 console by $100. It also will introduce downloads of movies and TV shows to the game machine's online store and, with some software partners, roll out a number of exclusive games. The moves suggested that Sony still views Microsoft as its chief rival rather than market leader Nintendo, which seems focused on extending its lead. But, of course, that's not how Sony brass portrayed its announcements at a press event...

The latest round of graphics card dueling between AMD and Nvidia isn't just over high-end gamers. The vendors will also exchange blows for the hearts and wallets of your friendly neighborhood medical imagers, seismic modelers, and computational fluid dynamicists. AMD is refreshing the FireStream processor line with a new general purpose GPU (GPGPU) that boasts more than one teraflop of processing power. Instead of handling gaming or graphics operatins, GPGPUs are built to crunch hundreds of parallel calculations per clock cycle. They promise massive speed improvements over a CPU in mathematical workloads of the scientific, educational and high performance computing...

Apple has sent out the following email to MobileMe customers: MobileMe services are now available We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped. Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac, and Gallery went relatively smoothly, the new MobileMe web applications had lots of problems initially. Fortunately we have worked through those problems and the web apps are now up and running. Another snag we have run into is our use of the word "push" in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all...

Worldwide PC shipments reached 71.9 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 16 percent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. "Mobile PCs continued to lead unit growth across all regions as the average selling price (ASP) of mobile PCs declined sharply relative to desk-based PC ASPs," said Mika Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner's Client Computing Markets group, in the press release. "Economic uncertainties have hit PC revenues, resulting in steep ASP declines, especially in markets such as the United States and the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. The...

As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.16 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html. We strongly recommend that all Firefox 2.x users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 2.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox 2.0.0.16 Release Notes.Note: Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008....

- 400GB drive cuts acoustic noise during data seek by 2dB*1 for near silent operation -TOKYO--Toshiba Corporation today announced a new line-up of high performance 2.5-inch HDDs, including a low-noise flagship model that boosts areal density to 477Mbit/mm2 (308Gbpsi) to achieve a capacity of 400GB on just two platters, plus five drives that bring new levels of performance and 7,200rpm rotational speeds to the company’s full range of storage capacities. Mass production of the 400GB MK4058GSX will start from September, targeting notebook PC and consumer electronic applications. Mass production of the 7,200rpm drives will start in August. The line-up includes...

Charges copyright, trademark infringement, violation of OS X software license (Computerworld) Apple Inc. has filed suit against Psystar Corp., the computer maker that in April started selling Intel-based systems with Mac OS X pre-installed. Apple is charging Doral, Fla.-based Psystar with copyright and software licensing violations, according to court records and a Florida attorney. A Psystar employee who answered the company's telephone this morning and identified himself only as "George," said that the company had no comment on the lawsuit. Although the full complaint has not been posted to the federal court system's electronic document system, Apple filed charges on...

If you've been waiting for a pocket-size device that's just as quick and powerful as your main computer, avoid the iPhone 3G. Even with a faster chip and a faster network, you'll resent waiting for Web pages to load, and you'll spend that time cursing other problems with the device. The 3-by-2-inch screen, for example, is too small. The 2-megapixel camera takes mediocre pictures. It only runs on AT&T's network. The GPS goes in and out. The fast Internet connection only works in cities. The battery dies after five hours of use. And the software is buggy. Still, even considering...

Went to the site a few minutes ago, and it has vanished like a Clinton adversary.http://www.wunderground.com/What's up?

As Macs make their way into the enterprise, IT needs to address these six security flaws before disaster strikesMacs are immune from security threats, right? It's Windows we have to worry about. That water-cooler wisdom needs to be flipped on its head, security experts and IT managers warn. Microsoft has gotten its security act together with Vista and its current security-response program; meanwhile, Apple is fast becoming the company most in need of getting its security mojo going. Many IT and security managers who have focused on securing Windows need to turn their attention to the Mac OS, as these...

Josh Martin beat me to the punch with his post on the Apple press release this morning (curse you!), but I thought I’d add a bit more context to the story. Those one million iPhone 3Gs sold this weekend provide a pretty good clue for why Apple and AT&T’s activation servers are slammed and barely able to keep up. This was a big deal. Why? Because not only was it about 4 times more phones than Apple had to deal with last year at this time, but because it is probably the largest consumer electronics launch in history. I noted...

Apple today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will go on sale in France on July 17. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to...

Excerpt - Apple today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will go on sale in France on July 17. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly...

Windows Vista, the OS that everyone loves to hate. Despite its enhanced security, improved CPU scheduler and excellent stability, it’s still the flawed gem in many critics’ eyes. But can Microsoft win back the XP crowd with its upcoming Windows 7 offering? The fact is, they have to. Being that gadget zone is still a fan of the Redmond, Washington, company (although we like Apple too), gadget zone contributor and computer expert, Vito Cassisi, has come up with the 20 Microsoft must do's to ensure the success of Windows 7.

Exclusive IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip. The IBM documents have the eight-core Power7 being arranged in dual-chip modules. So, that's 16-cores per module. As IBM tells it, each core will show 32 gigaflops of performance, bringing each chip to 256 gigaflops. Just on the gigaflop basis, that makes Power7 twice as fast per core as today's dual-core Power6 chips, although the actual clock rate on the Power7...

I bet all of you have seen this little disclaimer that is often attached to email:Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. rof,lmfaopersonally I recommend PGP if ya wanna keep yer eMail private

I gushed about the iPhone when it appeared last year, waxing on about its ease of use and its ability to draw people in with its intuitive and beguiling touch-screen interface. But it had its limitations and flaws, and the phone was in essence a very good first effort for a company with no history in cell phones. A little over a year later, the iPhone 3G shows that Apple has learned and built on what many felt was still the best smart phone available.

What is MobileMe? MobileMe is Apple’s new Internet service for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, and PC that takes the best of .Mac and adds many new features. With MobileMe you will continue to get services that take advantage of Mac integration such as iDisk and photo sharing from iPhoto ’08. You also get a suite of new web applications at me.com; push email, push contacts, and push calendar; and 20 GB of online storage. For more information about MobileMe features, watch the MobileMe Guided Tour. What happened to www.mac.com? MobileMe has a new home at (www.me.com) where you will find...

I knew it wasn't that good but I live behind a hill and can't get wireless from the local ISP. I decided to go with Hughes cause they are a big company and I figured they would do it right. 28kb per second dialup just wasn't cutting it. WRONG! $600 up front for the dish and installation and $70 bucks a month and one year later and I'm ready to rip the #$%&!@#!! dish off the wall and go looking for a Hughes executive to plant it in. They don't tell you... in fact they lie lie lie but the...

Quote: In a handout picture released on the news website of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, four long and medium range missiles rise into the air after being test-fired at an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert on July 9, 2008. Iran today test-fired a missile it said is capable of reaching Israel, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear drive could lead to war. G**** Images Hahaha nice Photoshop work If you dont have real pictures fake it

SYMPTOMS In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled: • Friendster • Klum • Nazr • Obama • Racicot One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail. Consider the following example scenario:• You compose an e-mail message in Windows Mail. • In the Options dialog box, on the Spelling tab, under Language, you select English. • You type a word that appears in the previous...

"This does not look good. Apparently people at home can't even upgrade to firmware 2.0 and the problem is afflicting iTunes on an international scale." ~snip~ This is how some of those newly bricked iPhones are occurring, and a source tells us that even first gen iPhones are susceptible.

In my little house we have an HP desktop and an ARCHOS 605 wifi (amongh other things) and for the longest time they worked perfectly together. Then one day they were no longer on speaking terms. Though each by itself worked out-- and checked out-- AOK. So, after some very careful investigation -- and a $$ an hour computer guy -- the problem almost certainly is a virus, or what have you. So, can anyone recommand a good de-bugging program? We just have the plain-vanilla AOL virus protection (quit snickering) and so...well...any recommandations? Thanks

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off of the iPhone 18 months ago, the wireless establishment offered a smug response. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Nokia executive sniffed that Apple’s new gadget merely validated his company’s strategy, and voiced his surprise to journalists that the iPhone didn’t use the latest 3G networks for fast data connections. “Overall, it’s very exciting for us,” he said, implying the mighty Nokia had nothing to worry about. A year and a half later, as the iPhone 3G arrives, Apple’s rivals look a lot more flummoxed. The little gadget...

One year and 11 days ago, our nation was swept by iPhone Mania. TV news coverage was relentless. Hard-core fans camped out to be the first in line. Bloggers referred to Apple’s new product as the “Jesus phone.” It was a stunning black slab of glass: a cellphone, a brilliant music and video player and the best pocket Internet terminal the world had ever seen. The huge, bright, touch-sensitive screen made it addictive fun to rotate, page through or magnify your photos, videos and Web pages. Today, the iPhone is in the hands of six million people. Clumsy touch-screen lookalikes...

. . . On Friday, Apple is launching a second-generation iPhone, called the iPhone 3G, which addresses both of those problems, while retaining the look and feel of the first model's hardware and software. The base version of the new iPhone costs $199 -- half the $399 price of its predecessor; the higher-capacity version is now $299, down from $499. Yet, this new iPhone is much, much faster at fetching data over cellphone networks because it uses a speedy cellular technology called 3G. And it now sports a GPS chip for better location sensing. The company also is rolling out...

One terabyte hard drives still cramping your decadent data storage lifestyle? No more tears. Seagate is rolling out 1.5TB HDDs this August. Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 will use four platters to cram the scale-tipping new raw capacity into an eleventh generation of its flagship drive. The storage firm points out its the single largest hard drive capacity bump in the last 50 years. As the name suggests, the HDD spins at 7,200RPM. The 3Gb/s SATA I interface has a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/s. 1.5TB = this image x 119,434,242 The disks are also sold in 1TB, 750GB,...

We are investigating the issue with the MS update KB951748. For the time being we suggest you uninstall KB951748 until the issue has been resolved. We will post when we have more information Best regards, Forum Moderator

Does anyone recommend a fax software since it is not included in the Vista Home Premium? I've read a bit about Snappysoftware.com but would prefer opinions and suggestions from folks on FR. Thank you!!

If you ever plan on writing an open source program, then you must make an important decision, selecting a program license. Generally for open source programs, there are two main licenses that most developers take into consideration. These licenses are the Gnu General Public License, and the BSD license. This article will explain the fundamentals of each license, and will help you in choosing the right license for your open source project. The first software license that comes to mind for an open source program is the Gnu General Public License(GPL). Created by Richard Stallman in 1989, the GPL is...

Comment Fed up with view from VistaHELL HAS FINALLY frozen over. This INQ hack has gone Mac. I'm now using a Macbook full-time and expect to be using a Macbook Pro when the (likely) August refresh occurs. I'm also buying a 3G Iphone in July. Nick won't be happy. I'm simply fed up. I'm fed up with the absolute turd that is Windows Vista. I've been using it since beta's were stable enough for day-to-day use, and I just can't take another five minute wait of constant disk thrashing, after another reboot forced upon me by yet another security patch...

O.K., the new iPhone comes out next week. I’m guessing there won’t be quite the same hysteria there was last year when the first iPhone debuted, but there’s still plenty of curiosity. Much of it surrounds the pricing. Yes, the phone itself starts at $200 (add $400 if you want it without a two-year contract)—but the AT&T service now starts at $70 a month instead of $60. So to help iPhone maniacs get a grip on their expectations, here’s the complete rundown of what it means to own an iPhone. This information comes directly from AT&T’s public relations representative, so...

I could use some computer help please. I have a portable hard drive and am saving old photos previously saved on zipdisc (Iomega portable zip drive). I have 2 folders that show pictures (jpeg files which I know were Ok before). The details list shows the files and the bites are there on the zip disc but I cannot view them in thumbnail mode or move them, I get a prompt that says "cannot read" Any help rescuing these pictures would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Information contained in the press release is current as of the date of announcement. It is subject to change without prior notice. July 7, 2008, Tokyo Pioneer Corporation Pioneer Succeeds in Developing World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc -Big Step toward Future Large-Capacity Archive System- July 7, 2008, Tokyo, Japan - Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world*1. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes, which is the same as that of a Blu-ray Disc (BD). This multilayer technology will also be applicable to...

I need a mouse pointer with a timer. I found the one in the mouse selections window of the control panel however it is graduate in .1 of a second to 9.9 secwho is fooling who here?I need the timer graduated in seconds to 999 sec. this will probably suffice although so,metimes programs are slower that that even

Excerpt - PCW: Can you share any funny, interesting, or unusual anecdotes about the 8086 that we haven't covered already? SM: I always regret that I didn't fix up some idiosyncrasies of the 8080 when I had a chance. For example, the 8080 stores the low-order byte of a 16-bit value before the high-order byte. The reason for that goes back to the 8008, which did it that way to mimic the behavior of a bit-serial processor designed by Datapoint (a bit-serial processor needs to see the least significant bits first so that it can correctly handle carries when doing...

A leading Mac OS X researcher says Apple has not kept the iPhone operating system up to date with patches it has issued for the desktop. The iPhone runs a stripped-down version of Mac OS 10.5 and automatically checks for security updates. The last update for the phone, 1.1.4, was issued in February. That means iPhone users are still vulnerable to a flaw discovered by Charlie Miller in March. During the CanSecWest conference, Miller found and used a buffer overflow in Safari in the Apple WebKit to win a $10,000 "Pwn to Own" contest. Apple patched Miller's Safari vulnerability for...

Waiting for the second comingApple has failed to keep software for the iPhone up to date with patches available for its desktop PCs. The latest version of the software for the iPhone, 1.1.4, came out in February and is essentially a pared-down version of Mac OS 10.5, according to security researchers. As a result the Jesus phone is still vulnerable to an exploit demonstrated by Charlie Miller at the CanSec West security conference back in March. Miller used a bug in Apple WebKit, as used in versions of Safari prior to version 3.1.1, to win a $10,000 prize in the...

Apple made some progress on the iPhone security/management front, but it has a looooooong way to go before truly satisfying enterprise concerns - or becoming a suitable alternative to BlackBerry or Windows Mobile, for that matter.After months of speculation, Apple unveiled its next-generation smartphone, the iPhone 3G and solidified its push into the enterprise mobile space with a spattering of business-specific announcements. But how well did these enhancements to the uber-popular device and its software measure up to enterprise users' expectations? Last week, in anticipation of the iPhone 3G's arrival in stores —which, by the way, won't be for another...

Here’s an unexpected Independence Day gift for Apple.Axel Springer AG, one of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers, with 10,000 employees and more than 150 papers in 30 countries, including its flagship Die Welt, announced on Friday that it is switching its entire operation from PCs to Macs. In a YouTube video, posted below the fold, CEO Mathias Döpfner lists four reasons for the change: Most of the company’s layout work was already being done on Macs Macs are more user friendly than other computers Apple creates the most elegant computers Macs are cheaper to buy and easier to maintain than they...

Chemists claim to have created the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts. The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances, the Japanese researchers say.

there is money to be made in the business of "fighting crime"From nailing seat belt offenders to grabbing druggies to arresting thugs there is money to be made in the buisinessand selling protection in every from insurance to anti-virus software feeds off the mal-activity in our societyso let's don't put a lot of good folks out of business by reducing or eliminating mal-activity. good jobs are scarce these days