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Google Chrome vs. Apple Safari [Beta4]

Google Chrome was launched in September of 2008. To date, Google Chrome is still not yet available for OS X or Linux version of the browser. Google continues to tell everyone “we are working on it,” yet still offers no product for these two operating systems.
Apple wanted to take advantage of Google’s sluggish [...]

Apple Crushes IBM in Legal Battle

Mark Papermaster has secured his Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware role at Apple. IBM sued Apple trying to hire Papermaster just two months ago. “The litigation between IBM and Mark Papermaster has been resolved” says a press release on Apple.com.

This secures Apple’s new “edge” in the industry. This guy is just [...]

Apples Launches iWork.com, Google Docs Competition

This week at Macworld, Apple announced iWork ‘09, but there’s a kicker: iWork.com has a new home at Apple. iWork.com is going to be a Google Docs [and Zoho] competitor.
One of the coolest new features of iWork is the new Keynote iPhone Remote. This $0.99 app will let you cue your presentation over [...]

Search by Saying with Google Mobile on the iPhone

Google recently released an iPhone app which will let you search the web, both the world wide web and the local web, by simply saying so.

Google produced a video about the application, but I actually think the video is pretty lame. It doesn’t really dig into how the application works or give you any [...]

Apple Gambles with Papermaster’s Skills

Google might not have as much to worry about as I thought they would. Papermaster’s role at Apple won’t be directly in chip making. IBM, Papermaster’s previous employer, is throwing down a lawsuit against Papermaster to prevent him from going forward with the Apple employment. (Lawsuit PDF)
Despite the non-compete agreement signed when Papermaster [...]

Google’s Opportunity to Gain Mobile Market Share

Google has a huge opportunity to gain market share with the G1 Android phone.
In a short and simple sentence, open up an app store that will let developers create essentially whatever they want.
Saul Hansell of NY Times’ Bits touched on Apple’s huge down fall. Transparency.
John Gruber wrote this very clearly last month:
Here is a [...]

Google Goes Head to Head with Apple

Now that Google has entered the mobile market, despite denying that they were making a phone, they will now have to go face to face with ex-IBM chip guru Mark Papermaster.
Apple announced that they let go their previous iPod Group Director, Tony Fadell, to be replaced by IBM chip guru Mark Papermaster.

Papermaster, an ex-IBM employee, [...]

MacBook Air Prepared for Shipping

The most recent update on my MacBook Air shipment is that it’s ready to be shipped!
Call me crazy, but I’m kind of really excited for this laptop. Some people don’t like it, but meh, fine with me. Everyone has different tastes and different needs.
I will post a review on the laptop once I’ve [...]

MacBook Air to Ship Earlier than Expected

MacRumors.com put out a notice of the Apple.com press release announcing that the MacBook Air’s will start shipping today. I opted for the MacBook Air with the solid state drive (SSD), so it may take a little bit longer to ship mine.

MacBook Air 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 64GB SSD
MacBook Air 1.8GHz Core 2 [...]

MacWorld 2008 Keynote Continued

This is a pretty impressive Keynote by Steve Jobs.
Please note that this it not the compete transcript but rather bits and pieces, liveblogging provided by http://www.macrumorslive.com/. I have highlighted a few of the parts I think are particularly worth looking at.
9:19 am: Full Airport Extreme base station with “server grade” hard drive internal.
9:20 am: [...]

Gmail’s Love for the iPhone

Gmail has launched a couple new features.
They decided to move to a more fluid design and feel to gmail. “To do that, we decided to use AJAX–a powerful set of web development techniques that make web pages more responsive. We also implemented two of the coolest and most requested features for this release: pre-fetching [...]

Google Seeks to Capture Mobile Market

Google released the iPhone interface for Google Apps products. “During Christmas (when nobody was at work!) iPhone browsing numbers even surpassed Symbian – which holds 63% of the world smartphone market – compared to the iPhone’s 2%. ComputerWorld.com”
The surge in traffic to Google from Apple’s iPhone is very encouraging for iPhone users around the [...]

Apple Announces Launch Date of Leopard

Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple’s online store. “Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we’ve ever released,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “And everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.” [Oct 16, 2007]

Apple’s iCar in the Works?

According to various sources around the web, Apple (”AAPL“) and VW (”VLKAY“) are in talks about co-creating the new iCar.
A Volkswagen representative confirmed to the German-language paper that talks were at an “early stage,” and that Steve Jobs met with VW CEO Martin Winterkorn several days ago to discuss the concept further.
So what’s the next move for the industry? For Google? Might this be the next rabbit trail for Google to try to get a piece of the action in? Apple has been able to focus on the music industry for quite some time. Already being a leader in the computer industry, the music hardware industry only seemed like their next logical move. Now Apple is involved with computers, music (iPod), mobile (iPhone), and now an emerging entrance to the automotive industry.

Apple Announces 100 Million iPods Sold

Apple announced today that they sold their 100 millionth iPod. Seriously, that’s a lot of iPods. That’s a lot of music flowing around the world. 100 million iPods x ~$300 each….that’s….$30 billion. Wow, that’s a lot of revenue. Congrats to Apple for being the best and doing the best job at creating an mp3 player.

EMI and Apple Announces DRMless Music on iTunes

Today, April 3rd, EMI and Apple have announced as a joint partnership to go ahead and offer DRMless music. What is their motivation to sell music without copyright protection? It’s pure and simple. Both companies feel that it will increase online music sales as they will be providing a product that is better than other products to do have the DRM protection. As I was watching