There's lots of ways to elevate an Apple notebook while you're sitting on the couch (I used to use a telephone book) but a desktop setting requires something a little more sophisticated. MacBooks, no matter the model, can get a
It isn't like this is a big surprise to anyone since so many leaks have been shown online the last few months, but Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.1 at the opening keynote of CTIA this morning (and no this
Microsoft seems to be continuing to keep most of its Windows Mobile cards close to the vest, even though it is CTIA Wireless week. At the show on April 1, company officials are talking up some of the new features
Why are we still talking about the value of PCI Compliance? Now we can all get it for free due to a great new product!  It's called Scanless PCI. The premise is pretty simple, go to the website, grab
One of my absolute favorite Windows Mobile Professional devices was the HTC Touch Dual with the excellent TouchFLO interface, very compact form factor, and wonderful keypad design. The only thing that kept me from using it more was the lack
Based on recent comments by top Redmond strategists, it appears that Microsoft has no credible vision for the future of desktop computing. Apple appears to have skirted this strategic black hole and despite the distractions of its OS X-based mobile
The average Apple iPhone user is an avid email reader (not writer) under age 30, browses the Web heavily and may carry a second phone. Meanwhile, a lot of these folks would like a few physical tweaks to the iPhone.
The writing is clearly on the wall. The iPhone will grow into a significant enterprise end-point role, and OS X Macs will quickly advance beyond the now 20 percent share (estimated) of the total non-enterprise fat client compute device market.
Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Leo Apotheker appointed joint CEO at SAP Larry Dignan: Google CIO to jump to EMI; And what does he know about music? Techmeme Mary Jo Foley: Will XP's 'execution stay' for emerging markets apply to other
I expected to hear about Windows Mobile 6.1 and some new device announcements out of CTIA this week, but was caught off guard when a new Windows Mobile company appeared and announced a couple of devices that look quite compelling.
The stories come out in dribs and drabs, and each one gives doctors another excuse to avoid electronic medical records: A man is arrested in Indiana with laptops containing patient data from a local VA hospital. Thieves in Grand Rapids,
No one. Net Applications monthly newsletter posed an interesting question: who uses MS Live Search? Nobody I know. One of their engineers theorized . . . it's mostly people that are searching for files on their own...
James Hamilton, one of the all-star architects on the Microsoft Windows Live Core team, has been a champion of using modular datacenter containers to build out datacenters. On April 1, Microsoft announced publicly its plans to build a completely containerized
Katherine Boehret at WSJ.com has a breakdown of three all-in-one printers that starts off with a promising, "All-in-one machines that print, copy and scan are becoming much more compact and affordable, and most important, easier to use." And that may
Score three (this week!) for IBM's green data center team. They have been cranking out the green data center "win" press releases in the past week, touting projects in Egypt, Austria and Switzerland. I have to say BY FAR the
Intel announced pricing on it's Silverthorne (now Centrino Atom) processors at the Intel Developers Forum today. According to the Washington Post, There will be five versions of the Atom processor, formerly called Silverthorne, available as part of the Centrino Atom
Atom chips are Core 2 Duo-compatible with a tenth of the power requirements that CEO Paul Otellini says are as important to Intel as the Pentium chips in the mid-1990s. Intel has launched its Atom range of processors at the
Nokia, the world's top handset maker, unveiled four new phone models on Wednesday, targeting consumers in emerging markets who are about to replace their first phones.The company, which makes four out of every 10 phones sold globally, has been fiercely
Net Application has published its March 2008 figures for the market share for different OS.These confirm the good form of Apple and Mac OSX that continues at 7.5% but that progress is slow since the start of the year.The iPhone
Despite the class action suit on the dithered MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, Apple is facing a new suit, about dithered iMac screens.This time, there's little chance that the suit will be settled as easily as the other suit, since
