The celebrity hacker and one-time National Security Agency spook says he will arrive at the CanSecWest security conference loaded for bear, ready to expose a score of security holes in OS X, Apple software and third-party code, as well.
The “App Store Gold Rush, The Sequel” begins now. Developers and Apple begin the formal ramp up to the grand opening of the iPad App Store — gentlemen, start your compilers.
Apple has filed a patent application which describes a geolocation-based social networking service that it calls iGroups and looks to be headed into the geolocation fray against Foursquare and others.
The wide disparities in analysts’ estimates of Apple pre-sales for the iPad and their estimate for the future sales of tablet computers have thrown the predictions of some analysts into doubt in some quarters.
Amazon said next year and, well, it’s next year. Still, Kindle for Mac arrives sans a couple of important features, including full text search and note taking, with a promise to deliver them, as well as software for the iPad, at some undetermined date.
Apple, which continues to ride a wave of business success as a company, is looking more and more at the enterprise marketplace as a new revenue source for its Mac computers and mobile devices.
NPR and The Wall Street are known to be remaking, at least in part, their sites in order to service Apple’s Flash free iPad. And, to my mind that’s a good thingâ„¢. However, why not let anyone with an aversion to Adobe’s buggy and resource hungry multimedia plugin connect to these Flash-free havens?
There is a high-stakes guessing game afoot regarding Apple iPad sales-to-date estimates and, of more importance, projections about how well the iPad will sell in the newly-created tablet computer marketplace.
Let the haters rail! Of the guys with their feet in the enterprise mud, a large a majority of those with dual platform experience are saying the support cost leader is the Mac with users of the fairer platform using 20 percent fewer resources.
Whatever oxygen — think profit — was left in the consumer computer market is now or will soon be owned by Apple. Whereas Mac sales grew steadily throughout most of the recession, now Apple’s computer sales are quite literally booming.
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