News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has returned to work on schedule after taking a six-month leave of absence due to medical issues, the company said on Monday.
Agam Shah | Jun 30, 2009
Mozilla will ship Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday, bringing the long-awaited upgrade in under its own deadline wire.
Gregg Keizer | Jun 30, 2009
Apple’s stance on standards has always been a little conflicted. Sometimes, the company is happy enough to pimp standard technologies, like AAC for audio, H.264 for video, or Safari’s Acid3 results. Other times, it seems fiercely committed to its own brand of special sauce. Now Apple, along with nine other mobile phone manufacturers, has agreed to create a standard charging interface for phones in the European Union, as proposed by the European Commission.
Dan Moren | Jun 30, 2009
Bob Borchers. The name holds a special place in the heart of iPhone users everywhere, even if most of us were never quite sure how to pronounce it. Bob was the host of the original blockbuster iPhone Guided Tour video that burst on the scene in June 2007, as well as its sequel, iPhone 1.1.1, and was one of the more visible of the company employees, who are usually shrouded in, well, shrouds of secrecy.
Dan Moren | Jun 30, 2009
Michael Jackson’s death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites that affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.
Juan Carlos Perez | Jun 29, 2009
Psystar may be in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings, but that’s not going to stop Apple’s lawsuit against the clone-maker from moving ahead. As reported by Jim Dalyrmple over at the Loop, a bankruptcy judge in Florida, USA has lifted the automatic stay placed on the case after Psystar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May.
Philip Michaels | Jun 29, 2009
Well, it's iPhone 3GS day. Do you know where your loved ones are? Or, perhaps, are they there next to you in the queue for which you woke up at a ridiculous hour to join? Either way, the iPhone 3GS hit Australian stores this morning, and if previous demand is anything to go by, you may be queuing for a while to get yours.
David Braue | Jun 26, 2009
Confirming a weekend report in the Wall Street Journal that Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant, Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute of Memphis, USA, said on Monday that it had performed the procedure on the Apple CEO. The hospital's announcement came after receiving permission from Jobs.
Aayush Arya | Jun 25, 2009
Humans may excel at pattern recognition, but computers aren’t very smart at identifying images. Our brains can immediately identify photos of famous landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty or Great Wall of China, but computers are typically clueless without text tags as a cheat sheet.
Jeff Bertolucci | Jun 24, 2009
Scanning Weblogs for product information and reviews has become a cornerstone in contemporary consumerism. Often, readers appreciate the opinion of someone who is not an expert to guide them to the right product. What some consumers may not know is that some of these writers are being paid for their smiles in the form of cash, free products and lavish trips.
Brennon Slattery | Jun 24, 2009
Apple announced Monday that it has sold more than 1 million iPhone 3GS models since they went on sale in the US on Friday, June 19, 2009.
Peter Cohen | Jun 23, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a liver transplant about two months ago to treat an undisclosed medical condition, according a news report published in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.
Agam Shah | Jun 23, 2009
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
