Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

Many of our readers also noticed it: Apple seems to have entered into a sleeping mode-like phase: We are waiting for the update of all MacBook and MacBook Pro models for now 2 months according to the usual schedule of updates. While it seems to be finished and validated by beta tester, the update 10.6.3 is still [...]

Even though Windows Mobile handsets are named in Apple’s lawsuit against smartphone maker HTC, one Microsoft executive recently stated that the suit might help to sort out intellectual property ownership issues.

There have been at least 2 major announcement for new USB 3.0 keys with data transfer speed reaching 100 MB/S and even more up to 300 MB/s  According to representative from Patriot, there are many difficulties for developing USB 3.0 storage keys, similar to the one we all have in our pockets or bags. The main [...]

Although it’s no secret that members of Microsoft’s leadership frown upon employees who choose an Apple iPhone over one running the company’s own Windows Mobile operating system, approximately 1 in 10 still veer towards the forbidden fruit and sometimes go to great lengths to conceal them on the job.

Worldwide smartphone shipments stormed back last quarter with 37.2 percent in growth, and Apple’s iPhone led the way with a 97.9 percent year-over-year surge in shipments. But the real coming battle in the mobile market, according to one analyst, lies between Microsoft and Google.

Microsoft published seucirty update for the Mac Edtion of Office 2OO4 and 2008. It fixes a potential security breach affecting Excel. Direct link to the resources:Update Office 2008 (222 MB).Updater Office 2004 (9,7 MB) 

Similar to how Apple’s iPod touch came from the development of the iPhone, Microsoft reportedly plans to base the follow-up to its Zune HD media player on the Windows Phone 7 Series mobile operating system.

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer recently had positive words about Apple’s success with the iPhone and its App Store, adding fuel to rumors of a potential alignment between Apple and Microsoft to bring Bing search to the iPhone.

Six months after Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary suffered a massive cloud services failure that lost data for its T-Mobile Sidekick users, new information has surfaced on the group’s Pink Project, rumored to produce the “Zune phone” in parallel to the Windows Phone 7 Series.

A declaration by the Vice President of operations of Google is likely to light a fire between Google and the providers of traditional OS, Microsoft and Apple. He thinks that in 3 years time the desktop machines such as they are conceived today will be obsolete. The future would belong to smaller devices, in a [...]

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