When it comes to Web browsing, Flash is a primary source of both insecurity and instability, not to mention unadulterated annoyance even when Adobe’s proprietary multimedia middleware does its job. Here’s a quick, easy and free way to precisely control where and when, if at all, you choose to use Flash.
As with everything Apple does, the tech media has made much of a data munching flaw found in the recently released Snow Leopard OS, forcing the company to release a progress report.
The world is all abuzz with hype about the upcoming release of Windows 7 and some pundits have even gone so far as to predict that Redmond’s “new” operating system will help it claw back market share gains made by Apple’s OS X over the past few years. If past performance is anything to go by, however, Cupertino’s Mac masters have little to worry about.
There have been a few exceptions, but in the vast majority of cases consumers simply cannot get a refund on App Store purchases. With prices rising, should this Apple policy change?
Arthur Levinson, formerly of Genentec, who has been on the board of directors of both Apple and Google, has chosen to resign from the Google board but will be staying on with Apple.
About a year ago, Google’s Sergey Brin was embarrassed to admit that it might be “months” before Chrome would arrive on the Mac. Now, the search giant’s CEO managed to deliver some smarmy praise for Mac users, but not the actual product, which is already at version 3.0 on Windows.
The United States secretary of energy, during an event in Washington, lauded Apple for resigning from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and chided the Chamber for its stand on global warming.
Apparently the graphics chipmaker isn’t liking how things were going and decided to pull out a few chairs for its customers at the negotiating table, currently a court in Delaware. Although Intel probably has the power to shape the industry as it chooses, the company must now do so much more publicly.
It seems like every day there is a new rumor or two on the much-ballyhooed but as yet unconfirmed Apple iTablet. One of the newest is just a dandy, in the form of big news from Taiwan.
About 18 months ago, an unknown maker of input devices for the medical industry sued Apple and CBS over the “Mighty Mouse” trademark. On Tuesday, October 6, the the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled against our favorite fruit company, leaving in doubt what name Apple’s new input device will come to market with.
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