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Mobile Phone

The Frustrated Traveller: Finding a True “World” Mobile Phone

It used to be quite simple: In order to use a mobile phone in the US and the rest of the world you needed GSM service and a phone with “tri-band” capability: 900MHz and 1800MHz for most of the world and 1900MHz for the US. Then two things happened: First, the two major GSM carriers […]

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Opinion

Three Reasons Why Microsoft Can’t Ship (and Apple can)

Microsoft apologist Paul Thurott is doing his very best to scribble up a negative spin on Apple’s WWDC Leopard announcements. Poor Paul! After five years of Longhorn waiting and regular Vista disappointments, his very best attempts at poo-pooing Leopard sound a lot like sour grapes. Why is Apple shipping so much innovation while Microsoft struggles to deliver any at all?
Three Reasons Why Microsoft Can’t Ship (and Apple can)

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Software

The Apple Core: Apple Updates Express Card software for MacBooks

Apple yesterday released Express Card Update 1.0 for MacBook Pros. According to Apple’s explanation on their Web site, the 492KB update “resolves an issue that prevented the system from sleeping when some cards are inserted in the ExpressCard/34 slot.” Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.

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Opinion

Alternative Interfaces Part 2

Back in February I posted links to some alternative interfaces. One of them was by Jeff Han, a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Adobe has posted a fascinating and informative video of Jeff demonstrating his latest developments. The clip runs for just under 10 minutes, so is ideal to […]

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Hardware

Mac Pro Unboxing

Mac Pro unboxed and taken apart. Ahhh, computer porn… PowerMax: Mac Pro taken apart! technorati tags:MacPro, Takeapart, Unboxing