According to an article on Macworld News, two Mac users (“LMH” and Kevin Finisterre) have begun a self-described initiative called the Month of Apple Bugs to “improve Mac OS X” by locating security flaws in Apple’s operating system as well as third party applications. The duo published their first finds recently. Known as “MOAB-01-01-2007”, the […]
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An article on Engadget describes how the One Laptop Per Child project, headed by Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Media Lab in collaboration with other organizations and vendors with the goal of creating a laptop that can be used by third world nations and purchased by governments, hopes to begin producing several million units around […]
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Jobs Keynote Speech to Run Two Hours
A quick look at the events page for the upcoming Macworld Expo San Francisco show reveals something out of the ordinary; Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote speech, which usually runs from 60 to 90 minutes, is slated to be two hours long this year. Among the anticipated products expected for discussion, if not release, are […]
A recent market share report released by netapplications.com shows that the Mac OS X market share (with both the the PowerPC and Intel architectures factored in) reached 5.67% in December of 2006, up from 5.39% in December. Apple’s operating system has now surpassed Windows 2000 for second place in market share positioning. Windows 2000 fell […]
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Micromat Debuts TechTool Protogo
According to an article on MacNN, Micromat today announced the upcoming release of TechTool Protogo. The new product is an application that allows Mac users to turn a device such as an older iPod or flash drive into a bootable unit packed with several of Micromat’s utilities as well as third party utility programs. TechTool […]