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PowerPage Podcast Episode 12 Available for Download

PowerPage Podcast Episode 12 is now available for download from the iTunes Music Store. On Episode 12 (32:57, 16.1 MB, AAC) of the PowerPage Podcast my guest is Youngmoo Kim, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. On this episode Youngmoo and I discuss audio technology and the Macintosh […]

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The Apple Core: Tablet Envy

In case you missed it, there’s a whole lot going on with tablet development these days – and it’s not in the Mac camp. The Wintel community is abuzz about Intel’s Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) platform and a new product from Microsoft called Origami due to launch on March 9. The very stealthy Origami Project […]

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The Apple Core: Mac OS X 30 minute hack “woefully misleading”

There have been a number of salacious reports around the Web to the effect of “Mac OS X hacked in 30 minutes” based on the results of a competition in which hackers were challenged to hack into a Mac mini connected to the Internet. The story made headlines but incorrectly characterized the break-in as a […]

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The Apple Core: Macs are cheaper than PCs by half

I know that it’s probably old news by now but an article in Network World claims that the Total Cost of Owning (TCO) a Mac is about half of what it costs to own a PC. From Business 2.0… Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.

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The Apple Core: Apple patents new wider “touchpad”

One of the things that cracks me up is the depths that a company will go to obscure their patent filings. It’s even funnier that the maker of arguably the best graphic design computers in the world with some of the best designers on their payroll files patent drawings that look like they were scribbled […]