Monday - October 20, 2008
Kevin Willis, the retired basketball center turned entrepreneur, gave up on the BlackBerry and depends on Apple's iPhone to stay in touch with buyers, suppliers and the high-profile clients who wear his custom jeans. "It does everything I need a phone to do for me and my business," said Willis, 46, who left the National Basketball Association last year after more than two decades and now helps run Willis & Walker clothing company in Atlanta. That's just what Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs wants to hear.
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Wednesday - October 8, 2008
Intuit's small-business accounting solution, QuickBooks, has gotten more than just a pretty facelift with its new QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac edition. Not only does the user interface utilize Mac OS X's Leopard look and feel, but it also it now sports handy new features that are exclusive to the Mac platform.
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Tuesday - October 7, 2008
Apple's Time Machine is great for incremental on-site backups, but what happens if there's a theft, fire, or flood? Mac owners facing such a disaster can wave goodbye to the Time Capsule and prepare to start from scratch -- unless there's a remote backup solution in play, of course.
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Thursday - September 11, 2008
With shipments of Apple computers on the rise -- to the tune of 38 percent year-on-year, according to Gartner -- software vendors appear ready to accommodate the shift in the marketplace. It may be hip to go Apple, but companies need software that's compatible with Mac computer systems, and the software industry is finally responding to the call.
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Monday - June 30, 2008
A group of five enterprise software companies on Monday announced the creation of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance to facilitate the acceptance of Macintosh computers in organizational environments managed with Microsoft Windows. The alliance was created by Atempo, Centrify, Group Logic, LANrev and Parallels.
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Friday - May 9, 2008
Three interesting topics were kicked around in Apple-minded blogs this week. Entirely unsurprisingly, survey results show that Apple tech support kicks butt in the PC industry at large. Also, AT&T is forbidding vacation time to hapless iPhone salespeople, and it appears Macs have gotten a foot in the door at work.
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Wednesday - March 12, 2008
Three months ahead of its official launch, the test version of iPhone's Software Development Kit is luring developers by the thousands -- tens of thousands, actually. More than 100,000 developers downloaded the beta version of the iPhone 2.0 software, which bears the enterprise-supporting SDK, in the first four days it was available, Apple said Wednesday.
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Thursday - March 6, 2008
In a special media event for journalists and industry analysts Thursday, Apple unveiled its iPhone Software Roadmap. As was widely expected, Apple announced details for its Software Development Kit for the iPhone and in a surprise move went even farther than expected by announcing significantly beefed up support for enterprise environments.
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Friday - February 22, 2008
The Mac universe got off to a slow start this week, with Presidents Day giving a sizable portion of the U.S. working population the day off. However, that didn't stop Apple from making a few, albeit minor, announcements. First, iTunes announced it would sell songs performed on "American Idol," in addition to the shows themselves.
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Tuesday - February 19, 2008
Apple has delivered a major upgrade to Xsan, the company's enterprise-class storage area network file system for Mac OS X. Called "Xsan 2," the upgrade includes completely redesigned administration tools, which Apple said make it even easier for first-time users to set up and deploy a SAN. In addition, Apple has introduced new features.
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Thursday - January 17, 2008
If you want to judge the intensity of a given conference or trade show -- in this case, Macworld -- there are several barometers you can look at. Are the main vendors' booths madhouses? Are there still lines in front of the free video games? Do you have to fight for a seat in the press lounge? Are national news crews still clogging up floor space for their video cameras and lights?
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