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Appleis losses have taken place in the midst of a broader tech selloff, a sector where the company has led gains during the past 18 months of trading. The tech selloff itself has been one of the major victims of a stock downturn triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis. *In the interest of full disclosure,…

There are good reasons why an Apple iTablet wouldnit fly in the market, and recent rumors have done nothing to convince Dr. Macenstein that heis wrong about that. First, one has to ask who the market is for such a device and how many Apple would sell. In the PC side, the sales of tablets…

The list was comprised from a poll of IT industry professionals. 73 percent of the 473 respondents named Mr. Jobs as the most influential, while 84 percent named Mr. Gates. PC maker Michael Dell came in third, and Linux creator Linus Torvalds took fourth place. Mr. Jobs is credited with revolutionizing the PC market first…

Googleis Android OS for mobile phones is poised to challenge Microsoftis assertion that open source can imitate but not innovate. In fact, the man behind Android is a former Apple and General Magic employee, Andy Rubin, according to John Markoff at the New York Times on Tuesday. There is a lot at stake as the…

Apple is showing how it can cross industry boundaries and shake up a tired industry with innovation combined with some muscle, according to Forbes on Monday. Itis called “cross-boundary disruption.” One of those industries that was ripe for a shake up was the music industry. The current target of Apple is, of course, the mobile…

Hereis how: Launch iChat. If it isnit already in your Dock, check in the Applications folder. Choose iChat > Preferences. Select the Messages tab. Check Collect chats into a single window. Leopardis iChat can group chats in a single window.

If you want to create your own Dashboard widget to monitor a specific Web site, Leopardis Safari 3 makes it easy. Hereis what to do: Launch Safari. It should be hiding in your Dock and also in your Applications folder. Open a Web site that has something you want to monitor. I decided to make…

Leopard demolishes Vista in a classy, coherent upgrade according to Slate Magazine on Wednesday. Apple has underpromised and overdelivered while Vistais techincal improvements remain difficult for users to appreciate and utilize. Appleis OS update approach stands in sharp contrast to Microsoftis. While Apple remains modest in its numbering system and includes lots of new features…

Microsoft has posted Beta 2 of its free Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client for Mac OS X. After round one, a number of important issues were addressed. Multiple Sessions Improvement ? Due to popular demand, the File menu has been redesigned to allow for the launch of multiple Remote Desktop Connection sessions from the menu.…

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, a critical part of many design-related workflows, is not fully Leopard compatible and will require an update. Even though the Acrobat update wonit be available until January 2008, Adobe claims it is safe to run the CS3 apps and Acrobat 8 Professional on Mac OS X 10.5. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3,…

My computer is a 15 inch G4 notebook.? I always use an external keyboard with it.? I despise typing on a notebook keyboard.? It is a personal thing, but I just canit type well on the notebook keyboards and I donit like the long reach that is required.? So for what it is worth, from…

Steady, slow steps in OS evolution, combined with some periodic cash flow, is a better way to evolve a modern OS than the lump sum approach of Vista, according to Tom Krazit at C|Net on Friday. While there are many new features in Leopard, what may be more important is the methodology for updating a…

Apple is about to alter the way customers enter many of their retail stores, according to a story at ifo AppleStore on Thursday. A concierge will soon greet entering customers and get them the help they require. It appears to be just good customer service, but there are other implications. Currently, anyone can walk into…

Silicon Alley Insider reported that Mr. Munster arrived at his new estimates based on Appleis quarterly conference call with analysts on Monday. He took the $118 million in revenue recorded by Apple during the September quarter and the approximately 1.15 million iPhones that have been activated through AT&T since the end of the July quarter…

A Microsoft senior engineer, with the title “distinguished engineer,” admitted to the Vista bloat and described his vision for the future — Windows with a leaner core, WinMin, according to ITWire on Monday. Each version of Windows has been more bloated. Worse, since the Internet, Microsoftis pride and joy OS hasnit been so safe. “An…

Hereis how: Modify as many settings as you need in the Print dialog. Now choose Save As from the Presets pop-up menu. Give your printer setting group an appropriate name, and then click OK. Save printer settings as presets.

Reports that Vista is selling poorly relate primarily to off the shelf sales compared to XP. New computers that have Vista pre-installed seem to be doing well, and Microsoft has logged at least 60 million Vista licenses. The conclusion has to be that home PC customers are overwhelmed and intimidated by the prospect of installing…