Archived Links for March 2008

03.25	iPodNN	Microsoft mulls iPhone software opportunities, Staff: Microsoft is considering software development for the iPhone.
03.25	Electronista	Analysts: MS being forced to lift Yahoo bid, Staff: Microsoft may have no choice but to raise the value of its bid for Yahoo, according to a new investment report by Citigroup.
03.25	Electronista	Intel debuts 45nm, low-power quad Xeons, Staff: Intel today used little fanfare to introduce new Xeon 5000-series quad-core processors that promise lower power without the accompanying drop in performance.
03.25	Macworld	MacBook Air: The proof’s in the packing, Dan Frakes: In the two-plus months since Steve Jobs first announced the MacBook Air during January’s Macworld Expo keynote, Apple’s most svelte laptop has generated much debate, as well as a good deal of criticism--much of the latter relating to Apple’s decision to focus on weight and thinness at the expense of traditional features.
03.25	Macworld	Analysts: Mozilla’s Safari complaints ’much ado about nothing’, Jim Dalrymple: Apple’s decision to push the latest version of Safari to Windows users through a software update application on XP and Vista may have scorn of Mozilla’s CEO. But industry analysts say there’s nothing unusual about the practice.
03.25	Ars technica	An errant Command-Q could leave your Mac unbootable, Chris Foresman: Command-Q to Quit. Many of us know that shortcut so well that it’s used without conscious thought. The shortcut is even honored with its own t-shirt. But an unfortunate MacOSXHints reader ran into some trouble when he hit Command-Q while installing the latest Safari update.
03.25	Mac Night Owl	Yes, Microsoft Loves Apple’s - Money!, Gene Steinberg: When you see the names Apple and Microsoft, you are probably reminded of a great war between two technology giants, may the better company survive. Of course, in the real world, that’s not really what’s happening. In fact, these two companies have a long, if shaky history of actually working together when it suits their mutual purposes.
03.24	Electronista	Sony, Warner close to MySpace Music deal?, Staff: Two major music labels are close to signing a deal for the rumored MySpace Music online store, say sources talking to the New York Post.
03.24	Low End Mac	5 Things Apple Is Doing Right in 2008 - and 5 It Could Do Better, Steve Watkins: Five years ago, I wrote a column on this same topic. We thought perhaps that a revisit would be in order 5 years on. But before the update, let’s revisit the 2003 article’s "5 It Could Do Better" section to see if Steve and Co. took my advice.
03.24	Low End Mac	March Madness and a Macintosh Performa, Dan Knight: I ran across an interesting tidbit last week: Pete Tiernan of Bracketscience.com uses a 1995 Performa with System 7.5 and a FileMaker Pro database as tools for analyzing the teams in the NCAA playoffs.
03.24	Ars technica	Seven years later: Happy birthday, Mac OS X, Jeff Smykil: It’s hard to believe that Apple’s OS X turned seven years old over the weekend. It seems like just yesterday I was playing with the beta builds on a friend’s revision-A iMac.
03.24	Mac Night Owl	Reality Check: The Great Safari for Windows Installation Scam, Gene Steinberg: I suppose Mozilla CEO John Lilly had a point when he said that Apple’s stealth Safari install process for Windows was "wrong." After all, Safari isn’t just being pushed to folks who had previously installed Apple’s browser, but to anyone who had previously installed iTunes or just QuickTime.
03.21	Ars technica	Rumor: new Mac mini in development, Charles Jade: Less than a year ago, AppleInsider, citing sources for whom the site "holds the utmost respect," declared the "impending demise" of the Mac mini. Less than three months later, the Mac mini got a drop-in upgrade to Core 2 Duo.
03.19	Apple Matters	Leopard: Not Quite Right, Chris Howard: Apple’s Leopard is several months and a few upgrades old now, but some things still aren’t meeting expectations.
03.17.2008	Apple Matters	I’m Not Convinced Apple Domination Is a Good Idea, James R. Stoup: So, apparently the iPhone is a big deal. Yeah, who knew? And Apple hasn’t calmed things down by releasing an SDK for the iPhone either. In fact, it seems like Apple has been in the press a bit more than usual lately.
03.14	Apple Matters	What’s Next for Apple: OS 11, Hadley Stern: There isn’t much we know about Apple’s next operating system except for the fact that we won’t have the annoying issues with OS X.
03.13	Apple Matters	What Should Apple’s Next Product Be?, Aayush Arya: Apple has a knack for taking existing technology and devices and turning them into simpler products that have an excellent user interface and good design.
03.10	Fortune	Steve Jobs speaks out, Betsy Morris: In an exclusive interview, Apple’s CEO talked with Fortune senior editor Betsy Morris in February in Kona, Hawaii, where he was vacationing with his family, about the keys to the company’s success, the prospect of Apple without Jobs, and more. Here are excerpts.
03.08	MacNN	Sun vows Java on iPhone, Staff: Sun intends to use the newly established iPhone SDK to provide a Java virtual machine for the device, the company’s Java marketing VP Eric Klein said late Friday.
03.07	MacNN	Ballmer: ActiveSync on iPhone, ponders Silverlight, Staff: Steve Ballmer recently sat down with Guy Kawasaki at the Mix 2008 conference in Las Vegas, where Kawasaki asked him about his feelings on Apple’s iPhone developer announcements yesterday.
03.07	Macworld	Mac snobbery?, Brian Chen: A recent video published by The Street labels Mac users "snobs" because of findings in a study by Mindset Media.
03.07	Computerworld	Analysis: iPhone SDK release offers big potential for users, developers, Seth Weintraub: Today’s iPhone software development kit (SDK) announcement by Apple Inc. - long anticipated and long overdue - is big news for iPhone (and iPod Touch) users.
03.06	Electronista	Sony in talks for Blu-ray for Mac, Xbox, Staff: Sony is discussing the possibility of offering a Blu-ray drive for Macs and the Xbox 360, claims Sony Electronics chief Stan Glasgow.
03.06	Low End Mac	The Mac vs. PC Debate, John Hatchett: The controversy between Macs and PCs started when the personal computer industry was young. Early on, most businesses (used to IBM) "standardized" on the Microsoft operating system. Eccentrics and nonconformists seemed to gravitate to Apple.
03.06	Apple Matters	Lenovo X300 Completely Rules the MacBook Air. Or Does It?, Aayush Arya: Lenovo had been working on an ultra-portable notebook for the past twenty months and has finally managed to get it done.
03.06	Mac Night Owl	Leopard’s Spaces - Take a Hike!, Gene Steinberg: Over the years, I’ve used various utilities to automatically hide the application windows I’m not using at the moment. There’s always one around, and my most recent program of choice, HideItControl, a preference panel from Derman Enteprises, once shareware, has since become free. But then so were some of other others, such as AutoHide.
03.06	Wired	Pentagon Bans Google Teams From Bases, Lolita Baldor: Citing security risks, the Pentagon banned Google teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases after images of a Texas base ended up on the popular Internet site.
03.06	Fortune	The trouble with Steve Jobs, Peter Elkind: Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.
03.05	Apple Matters	What Would You Talk to Steve Jobs About?, Chris Howard: Recently I had a dream I met Steve Jobs, and he asked me what I thought of my Macs. It set me to wondering, what would I say to him if I did have five minutes with him? What would you say?
03.05	Mac Night Owl	Apple Say’s Everything’s Great - Wall Street Says Not So Fast!, Gene Steinberg: Welcome to the nasty world of disconnect, where a high-flying company can say anything it wants, even if true, and the stock market prefers to look for troubling news.