Archives Tag: Apple
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 OS [...]
Full StoryApple 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 a gold [...]
Full StoryApples 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 Wi-Fi, [...]
Full StorySearch 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 [...]
Full StoryApple 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 joined [...]
Full StoryGoogle’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: [...]
Full StoryGoogle 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 [...]
Full StoryMacBook 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 Apple 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 [...]
Full StoryMacWorld 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. [...]
Full StoryGmail’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 [...]
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