[Video] Parallels Mobile App Runs Windows On iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
September 14, 2010
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Google Chrome Reaches 40 Million Users; Mac, Linux Versions To Launch Soon
November 19, 2009
Despite gaining momentum, Google Chrome adoption is still far behind Firefox's 330 million users!
At the Googleplex this morning, Google vice-president of product management Sundar Pichai started the Google Chrome OS press conference with an update on the search engine Web browser:
- Since launch, 14 months ago, 40 million people are now using Google Chrome as their main Web browser. Although this sounds like a big number, it’s not. To put it in perspective, Firefox added 30 million users in 8 weeks last month!
- Google Chrome has been updated more than 20 times through seamless auto updates;
- Javascript is 38 times faster than Internet Explorer. An important benchmark for Web 2.0 applications that make heavily use of AJAX;
- HTML 5 support.
Pichai also mentioned about 3 more announcements that Google will be making by the end of this year regarding Chrome:
- Release of the Mac version
- and the Linux version;
- Release of Extensions, which are similar to plug-ins.
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Kaspersky Lab Readies Anti-Malware Product For Macs; Sees Emerging Market
August 10, 2009
Kaspersky Lab confirms launch of anti-malware product for Mac by year-end
As the urban legend goes, Macs are just less vulnerable to viruses, malware and other various cyber attacks that usually plague Windows users.
And in large part, the status quo is mostly respected with some notorious exceptions however; like Apple recommending to run an antivirus software (from Intego, McAfee or Symantec) last November (Apple erased the note from its site a few days later), the “exploit” against Safari last March or the latest Mac OS X release that patches several vulnerabilities found in the Apple operating system.
MacOS X has a lot of vulnerabilities: FUD or not?
Should that make me feel less secure while working on my MacBook? Not really; which made Kaspersky Lab marketing manager Peter Beardmore grin when we met last week while touring Silicon Valley.
“The Mac today is far more vulnerable than people think it is. Percentage-wise a lot of Macs are not protected at all, meaning there’s an inherent vulnerability associated with that… The vulnerabilities are there and we can cite chapter and verse if you’re interested but there’s a lot of vulnerabilities out there,” said Beardmore.
Beardmore confirmed that Kaspersky will release a Mac version of its security suite later this year. So his remarks have been taken with a grain of salt as it’s hard to know if this is to build up the scare prior to the product launch or an actually real concern.
Follows a video excerpt of our conversation with Beardmore on the future Mac product. More on Kaspersky plans in later posts.
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[Analysis] Microsoft Windows 7 Is Essentially Vista; But Smaller, Faster
April 30, 2009
Roger Kay, President at Endpoint Technologies is optimistic about Windows 7. I'm not!
A little less than 2-years after the launch of the much hated Windows Vista, Microsoft is getting ready to launch its successor.
Windows 7 is expected to be pre-installed in consumers PCs as early as the end of summer, just in time for the back-to-school season.
Under the hood, Windows 7 is essentially Vista, according to Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay.
But for Kay, Windows 7 is better than Vista in important ways:
- Smaller footprint — The new OS takes up less disk space and runs with less main memory; part of the release surprise is the actual hardware specifications, which are similar to those for Windows XP, Vista’s less-resource-hungry predecessor.
- Faster — Everything is faster: boot time, application loading, overall performance.
- Quiescent — A lot of the old “chattiness” of Vista, particularly of user account control, is gone; the user interface stays out of your face and does what you tell it to do.
- More elegant — There are many fun and intuitive features that work well, stay in the background otherwise, and look good; the interface can be personalized more easily and to a greater degree.
Sounds like a MacOS me-too, right?
I’ll be testing the final release of Windows 7 soon on a Mac virtualized environment – just to fasten the comparison! – and will report back!
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HyperMegaNet Sells Mac Clones In Europe; Apple Weights Response
February 6, 2009
PearC is a Mac clone lineup, with models comparable to the Mac mini up to an entry-level Mac Pro
The German computer maker is opening a new front – in Europe this time – in the Mac clones war against Apple.
Following Florida-based company Psystar – that was sued last July by Apple for selling Mac clones in the U.S. – HyperMegaNet launched this week its PearC lineup, composed of 3 desktop machines (Starter, Advanced and Professional) which come pre-installed with the latest Mac OS X 10.5, Windows Vista or both (dual-boot).
The computers are built-to-order and sold in Europe from $645 (499 euros).
Comparing Apples and PearCs
It’s hard to directly compare PearCs and Macs as Apple’s only standalone consumer desktop is the Mac mini (814 euros) which turns out to be 45% more expensive than a comparatively equipped HyperMegaNet Starter tower (559 euros).
The price gap widens greatly however when comparing the high-end Mac Pro tower – with only one quad-core CPU – (2,700 euros) with an equivalent PearC Advanced (967 euros) machine.
HyperMegaNet computers does not go beyond one processor per machine, while the Mac Pro could host up to two quad-core Intel Xeon chips.
It’s legal in Germany!
In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel Online, HyperMegaNet spokesperson Dirk Blößl states that in Germany the PearC line is absolutely legal and that a PearC is first and foremost a PC, which runs also Mac OS X.
We’ll see if the lawyers of the Cupertino, Calif.-company agrees with that!
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Apple One-Day Sale Underwhelms; Prices Fall 4% To 8% On Small Handful Of Products Including IPod And IMac
November 28, 2008Apple kicked off a one-day after Thanksgiving sale on Friday with modest price cuts of 4 percent to 8 percent on a handful of iPods and Mac computers.
Apple cuts MacBook 8% and iMac 4%
Absent from the sale were many high-end computers and iPods – and the closely watched iPhone. Other gear displayed in the Apple stores, including the Apple TV, was discounted.
Apple insisted the event would last only Friday both at its retails stores and online. Here are the price breaks:
*20-inch iMac cut 4 percent to $1,148;
*13-inch MacBook cut 8 percent to $1,198;
*8GB iPod Nano cut 7 percent to $138;
*iPod Classic cut 8 percent to $228;
*8GB iPod Touch cut 5 percent to $378.
Happy holidays.
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Apple Gets Ready For Special One-Day Shopping Event; To Cut Prices On iPods, iPhones And Macs
November 24, 2008
For its one day shopping event, Apple could slash prices on iPhones, iPods and Macs to boost sales
[Update: Apple officially announced the one-day shopping event in the U.S. on Tuesday morning. Hold your shopping at the Apple store until Friday!]
The word is finally out. Just as last year, Apple is getting ready for its “one-day” online shopping event, coming up this Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
Although the advanced notice for the promotional event came up first on Apple online stores in Australia and New Zealand, I suspect the Cupertino, Calif., company to post the same announcement on its U.S. store, sooner rather than later.
Like any other retailers, Apple is facing the excruciating dilemma of pre-announcing what could be its lowest prices of the year for iPods, iPhones and Macs, loosing in effect 3 days of potential revenues while customers await for Friday promotions.
My guess is that Apple will simply match Best Buy prices. 4 days to go!
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Will Apple’s IPhone Lose To Google’s Android The Same Way Mac Lost To The PC?
October 31, 2008
Ron Maltiel: Will the iPhone follow the Mac?
High-tech consultant Ron Maltiel raises an interest question about the iPhone:
Is history repeating itself in the evolution of the mobile internet platform? In the 80s, when the personal computer (PC) industry started there was no standard personal computer. The PC market got a shot in the arm when IBM introduced a personal computer that became a standard as a result of IBM’s size and power. Its open specification enabled many developers to create applications that could run on the IBM PC. The PC market took off with a standard general purpose computer offered by many vendors for any possible application. IBM’s open standard for PC propelled the adoption of the PC. Many new applications were created by many developers which propagated demand for the PC. Apple’s Mac closed system and tight controls of outsider developers reduced the demand for the elegant Mac computer.
Apple’s development of the iPhone brings back memories of the development of their first Mac computers. While Apple is trying to avoid their mistake with the Mac of limiting outside development, they still have a closed system with tight controls. For example, you cannot watch videos from internet sites that use flash video media – you are limited to web sites that use Apple video media. Google’s GPhone is more of an open system. The question is whether it will grow faster than the iPhone as a result of it being an open system. The answer depends on whether Google has enough cache to attract enough developers to create applications around the GPhone platform similar to the ones that evolved around IBM’s PC. One of the key differences is that IBM initially built and sold a large number of PCs and helped the market grow. Google doesn’t make or service GPhones. However, they could leverage their dominant position in internet applications such as search, maps and other to create and promote a more versatile GPhone than the iPhone.
Time will tell….
See Ron’s post at: http://www.maltiel-consulting.com/iPhonre_GPhone_Smart_Phone_maltiel_semiconductor.html
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Steve Jobs Says Fourth Quarter IPhone Business Makes Apple Third Largest Mobile Phone Supplier
October 21, 2008
Using the iPhone keyboard
Apple boasted that its fourth quarter (ending in September) set three key records:
More Macintosh computers were sold than in any previous quarter. More iPods were purchased than in any other non-holiday quarter. And more iPhones were sold than in all previous quarters combined.
It was this last accomplishment that Steve Jobs seized upon during a company conference call discussing the quarterly results. “If this isn’t stunning, I don’t know what is,” he said. “It is all due to the success of the iPhone 3G.”
And it also makes Apple the third largest supplier of mobile phones after Nokia and Samsung, based on revenue, he claimed. “I know this sounds crazy, but it’s true,” Jobs told an assemblage of analysts.
With Apple’s 6.89 million shipped phones, it also passed the quarterly sales of Research In Motion, which makes the popular Blackberry. In total, Apple has sold 13 million of the touch-screen devices, and the iPhone now makes up 39 percent of Apple’s business, calculated using a non-GAAP method that adds in subscription revenue Apple defers over the average two-year life of the iPhone.
Oh, by the way, Apple sold 2.6 million Macs in the quarter (up 21 percent) and 11 million iPods.
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