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Wait Wait…Donit Tell Me! is a news quiz show with a comedic angle on NPR where a panel, guest stars, and call-in guests are quizzes on various aspects of recent news, much of it political in nature. During Mr. Hodgmanis segment, he was asked to play a game the show called, “So youire a PC,…

Mr. Papermaster was most recently Vice President of Blade Development at IBM, and he also spent some of his 26 year career at IBM developing IBMis Power line of processors, the same family Apple in its Macintosh and Xserve computers used until the Switch to Intel in 2005. Court documents filed by IBM call him…

Mr. Wilfrid has been with the MacBU since it was created in 1997. He was most recently a Product Unit Manager within the MacBU, and he has worked on all of the major Office for Mac releases since the MacBU was created. Eric Wilfrid

Apparently the batteries pose a potential fire hazard due to overheating. None of the batteries in this recall are being used in Apple laptops. Sony suffered a black eye in 2006 when it was forced to recall thousands of batteries from a long list of laptop manufacturers, including Apple. This time, however, the recall appears…

Sometimes a marquee video game series is a best-seller for good reason. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, developed by Infinity Ward, published by Activision and converted to the Mac by Aspyr, is the latest installment of the Call of Duty series. Breaking from its typically World War II-themed roots, the latest chapter focuses on…

In market warfare, just as in military warfare, one of the key tools is the analysis of Critical Failure Points. The essential element is that a opponent may have mistaken assumptions about its strengths or strategy or the intentions of the opposition, and those elements constitute a set of critical failure points that can be…

Microsoftis quarterly earnings call with Wall Street told the tale of two diverging franchises: MS Office is doing well, but Vista growth was just 2 percent, and the company acknowledged that Vistais future is bleak for the rest of 2008, according to Computerworld on Friday. The mere 2 percent growth, with revenues of US$4.22B, concerned…

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The Cupertino-based company isnit saying what Apple University is, but it wonit likely come to life until sometime next year since Mr. Podolny isnit scheduled to start his new job with Apple until early 2009. This wonit be the first company Steve Jobs has been involved with that started a “University” program. Pixar Animation Studios,…

As e very Mac Observer reader knows by now, Apple has dropped the FireWire port from its latest MacBooks. The result is a lot of angry Mac users, and a controversy over exactly how important it is to have a FireWire port on a Mac. Although much ink has already been spilled on this topic,…

A team of former Apple employees has formed a startup company to pick up where Apple left off with RAID 5 storage. Active Storage in Torrance, California is building and delivering XRAID, a powerful RAID 5 system especially designed for Macintosh customers with up to 16 TB of storage in a sleek 3U case. Alex…

Psystar has filed a motion in opposition to Appleis motion to dismiss its counterclaim. Psystar believes it has found relevant case law to support single product relevant markets and supporting antitrust argument. Previously, in response to Appleis original copyright infringement case against Psystar, a counterclaim was filed which emphasized possible antitrust action by Apple. Apple…

Keychain, which stores passwords, registration codes, certificates, secure notes, and anything else that you want to keep secure comes with Mac OS X. It is free and it offers a good level of security for all those things you want to keep secure. Many things are automatically added to Keychain which saves you time. However,…

“Our position hasnit changed,” the company said in a statement. “Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo!; there are no discussions between the companies.” The public statement followed comments from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando. According to ZDNet, when asked about his companyis interest in pursuing Yahoo! again, Mr.…

On Tuesday, Apple released new aluminum MacBooks without a FireWire port of any kind, some customers have been greatly annoyed, and they let Apple know about it on Apple forums. Steve Jobs has responded to one customer via e-mail, according to AppleInsider. In his first response to an Apple customer, Mr. Jobs said, “Actually, all…

On Boing Boing tv, John Hodgman, famous and known to Apple customers for his Apple ads with Justin Long, continues his SPAMasterpiece Theater series, part II, featuring “true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you –…

Apple has not confirmed that it was planning on opening a call center in the city, but Volt recruiters were telling prospective employees that the Mac and iPod maker was doing just that under a project dubbed the “Appleflex Project.” The recruits were later told that via email that their training dates had been pushed…

Currently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is confiscating laptops as it pleases when travelers — including U.S. citizens — enter into the country. The seized laptops are being held in some cases for months, and the agency is demanding travelers turn over the passwords necessary to access all of the hard driveis contents. “Most…

In the course of discussing his career and love for computers, Steve Wozniak predicted that the iPod has peaked and will eventually die out like the transistor radio and Walkmans, according to the Telegraph in the U.K. on Tuesday. Rupert Neate engaged Mr. Wozniak who reminisced about the early days with Hewlett Packard, his shyness,…