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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated “We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.” Googleis strong position in the online search and advertising market has left Microsoft and Yahoo in the…

Spaces: Virtual Desktops

The Parallels CEO, Serguei Beloussov, will hold a keynote Webcast on Thursday, January 31, 2008 in which heill take a deep dive into the companyis virtualization technology, new products, vision and roadmap. Joining Mr. Beloussov will be executives from leading Fortune 500 companies to share their own perspective on virtualization. Participating will be: Diane M.…

Thomson Financialis Squawk Box, (TSB) a source of commentary and intelligence on market-moving activity, said on Monday that they see early turnaround signs for AAPL based on three separate timing indicators. They reported that the risk-reward for AAPL now favors buyers. In the report, carried by Forbes, Thomsonis sequential timing indicators flashed a reversal signal…

Microsoftis Erik Schwiebert stated on the mactopia blog that the “issue is that our installer is incorrectly granting ownership of the files to a particular local user as it installs them, so that if your Mac actually has a second local user and that user is not an administrator on your Mac, they could modify…

Twitter is a free online service where people write short messages that are published in the useris personal timeline. Anyone that cares to follow your timeline gets to see the messages, or tweets, that you post. Twitter

Mindset Media surveyed 7,500 people and found that people who are highly open minded are 60 percent more likely than people in the general population to have purchased a Mac. Mindset Media, which operates an online ad network that enables brand advertisers to reach millions of people with the personality traits that fit their brands,…

Parallels and equinux announced at Macworld that they have partnered to allow business professionals with Parallels Desktop for Mac to securely connect to their remote networks using VPN Tracker 5, equinuxis IPsec-based VPN client. The result is that users with the Parallels VM can now easily integrate with the equinux VPN Tracker 5. “Itis no…

Wireless power transmission allows devices to receive a charge for either direct operation or to recharge internal batteries. Imagine your desk without power cords for your computer, iPhone, speakers, and even your electric pencil sharpener, should you have one, getting power without YAP (yet another plug). If that appeals to you, youill understand the change…

Rock took the time to create a series of iCal calendars you can subscribe to that are all broken down into categories. For example, if you attending the MacIT sessions or the Market Symposiums, there are specific calendars for each. To subscribe to any of the Macworld Expo 2008 calendars, just point your Web browser…

SWsoft announced on Wednesday the Beta release of its Parallels Server, a hypervisor-powered server virtualization solution. It is the first virtualization system designed to run on Apple servers, Mac Pro and Xserve, but also runs on any 64-bit server hardware running Windows or Linux. Ben Rudolph, SWsoftis Director of Corp. Communications summarized the technical specifics…

Meander is a Universal Binary application that lets users plot points, create routes, and measure distances on maps. It supports Google Maps, scanned maps, and more. The application is available for download at the Fastforward Software Web site and is priced at US$19.95. The update is free for registered users.

Appleis last offering in the subnotebook market was the PowerBook 2400 in 1997. This time, however, the Cupertino company will likely forego tradition design elements by using NAND Flash RAM for primary data storage to reduce power consumption, improve reliability, and reduce weight. Likely names for the laptop, according to Mr. Wu, include “”MacBook mini”…