September 2008 Mac News Around the Web

09.07	David Alison’s Blog	Living with the iPhone, David Alison: I’ve now had my 3G iPhone for just over a month. It has become my constant companion, even though my use of it as a phone is relatively light. I’m one of those people that has to have a phone handy, a habit I picked up from a decade of being deeply involved in the operation of an online service that had to be running 24-7.
09.06	Newsweek	One Bad Apple, Daniel Lyons: Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago -- a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors.
09.06	Los Angeles Times	Rage against the iMachine, Staff: Music labels are rebelling against Apple’s online dominance. Trouble is, their options are limited.
09.05	Low End Mac	Anticipation: New iPods Now, New Macs Later, Kev Kitchens: Not long ago, Apple announced to the media that they would be holding an event on September 9th. From the format of the invitation, the event is widely expected to relate to the iPod platform.
09.05	Apple Matters	5 Ways to Take MobileMe To the Next Level, Bakari Chavanu: I’ve been a .mac/MobileMe member for the last five years. I use the service because it’s an easy way to maintain my business website, upload business and family related photos, and back-up personal data. But if I really wanted to, I could manage to get all these services for a lot less than $99 a year.
09.05	Wired	Is Steve Jobs Really Emailing Apple Customers?, Brian X. Chen: The validity of recent emails supposedly sent by Steve Jobs to Apple customers is questionable, according to an analysis by Wired.com.
09.05	Ars technica	Down and out at the September 9 Apple Event?, Charles Jade: Even as the Apple Event for September 9 comes closer, it does not appear to be looming larger. At least that’s the gist of a research note from analyst Shawn Wu of American Technology Research via AppleInsider.
09.05	Ars technica	AT&T hit with yet another iPhone 3G lawsuit, Justin Berka: In the class action suit, Eulardi Tanseco takes carrier and manufacturer alike to task for the poor 3G speed and connectivity experienced by many iPhone 3G users, as well as for a number of bugs related to the App Store and WiFi Music Store.
09.05	Electronista	Microsoft to copy Apple Genius strategy, Staff: Microsoft on Friday said that its $300 million marketing campaign will now involve in-store representatives to promote the brand, the company’s general manager of corporate communications, Tom Pilla, says
09.05	The Wall Street Journal	Dell Plans to Sell Factories, Justin Scheck: Dell Inc. is trying to sell its computer factories around the world, a move to sharply overhaul a production model that was long a hallmark of the PC giant’s strategy but is no longer competitive.
09.05	MacDailyNews	Gates - Seinfeld Microsoft ad (Creepy), Staff: Funny, but Bill is evil. Let’s not forget that.
09.04	Low End Mac	Tomorrow’s Solid State Drives and Notebooks, Dan Knight: Flash memory is pretty amazing stuff. Invented in 1980, it made digital photography possible. It’s been used in PDAs for ages. And its inside those useful USB thumb drives that have become so affordable and become a normal way of moving data between computers.
09.04	Apple Matters	No Low End in Apple’s Future: Thanks Google Chrome, Chris Seibold: Time to think about Google Chrome. You can’t click a link anywhere on the internets the past couple of days without hearing about Google Chrome. Just in case you’ve been in a cave or have had a locked up iPhone for the past two days Google Chrome is a browser from Google. A browser by Google? What’s not to love!
09.04	Macworld	What’s at stake for Apple at Tuesday’s iPod event, Philip Michaels: There was an interesting undercurrent to the reader chatter surrounding Apple’s announcement of a special, presumably iPod-themed event for this coming Tuesday.
09.03	Low End Mac	11 Mac Browsers Compared, Simon Royal: This article aims to show which Mac browsers are best, in terms of stability, speed, general features, and compatibility.
09.03	Low End Mac	Psystar Strikes Back, Countersues Apple, Frank Fox: The good folks over at Groklaw have the full details of Psystar’s countersuit against Apple. Psystar mostly claims that it doesn’t know anything, denies the rest, and then goes on to tell how Apple is an evil monopoly that has to be stopped by requiring them to license the Mac OS (which Psystar seems to know so little about).
09.03	Apple Matters	iPhone - A Great Computer, Chris Howard: Last week, when referring to the iPhone, I said I’d bought a new computer. I still feel that way too. The iPhone is an extension of my Mac, a subset of it. I am finding myself quite happy to use it even when a computer is at hand.