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Set in space thousands of years from now, EVE Online charts the progress of humanity, which has split into four distinct races. You play as a member of one of them, and your goal is to join other players in amassing enough wealth that your group can stake out its own piece of the universe…

Late on Wednesday, Intel warned that it expected revenue for the December quarter to come in substantially lower than previously forecast, an event that pushed stocks lower in early Thursday trading, but the markets shrugged it off and tech stocks shot up in a broad rally late in the Thursday trading session. Shares in Apple…

The battle over white space is over. At least for now. And the forces of the future have prevailed. Before I explain what I mean by this, let me backpedal a bit. If you own an iPhone, and you use it to connect to public Wi-Fi spots, it’s been a great couple of weeks. Last…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer In response to comments from Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang that, “To this day, I would say that the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo!,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was blunt, saying, “Weive moved on.” The back and forth started with Google pulling out of a deal Wednesday…

Writers are obsessive about tidbits of data that they might be able to use someday. Keeping a useful archive of collected data helps if one can both document the provenance of the information and successfully search for items saved. This mini-review looks at three scrapbook or organizer programs, Caboodle, EagleFiler and Yojimbo, with a focus…

I love racing games, but Iive never been fond of the type that use realistic cars. Every time I try out, say, a NASCAR game, I head out on the track, build up a head of steam … and spin out in the first turn. Frustrated, I drive in the opposite direction and try to…

AAPL ended the day at US$103.30 per share, a loss of $7.69 (-6.93%), on volume of some 44.7 million shares trading hands. Nonfarm private employment dropped in October by some 157,000 jobs, a significant decline unseen since the 2002 post 9-11 slowing of the economy. In addition, ADP (the author of the employment report in…

The update also added Canon EOS 50D and Sonly DSLR-A900 compatibility to the image editing and management applications, addressed issues with other cameras, and improved overall stability. Digital Camera Compatibility Update 2.3 requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher and is available via the Software Update application, or as a downloadable installer at the Apple…

Apple is planning a week long series of events to celebrate the Grand Opening, including free training events and seminars. For a complete list of events, and directions to the Appleis new Dadeland store, visit the Apple Retail Web site.

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…

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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…

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…