Michael Carney on February 22nd, 2010

From TechCrunch:

While Other Bikini Apps Are Banned, iTunes Promotes Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit App: Apple is getting more prudish and pulling sexy apps from iTunes. One of the new rules is no more bikini apps, unless you happen to be Sports Illustrated (or FHM or Playboy). Sports Illustrated, for instance, just released its 2010 Swimsuit app [...]

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Michael Carney on February 16th, 2010

From Mark Damon Hughes:

Competing with the iPhone: It’s got to be so annoying to compete with Apple, at anything really, because it’s not like they’re doing something fucking crazy. Everybody’s had these ideas before. The difference, and this is grim if you are a competitor, but the difference is that everyone else spends a lot [...]

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Michael Carney on June 25th, 2009

From Slashdot:

Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing: It’s the tripnaut! writes “Information Week has posted prices for Windows 7. From the article: ‘The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for [...]

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Michael Carney on April 15th, 2009

From Slashdot:

Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet: pkluss noted Kevin Turner, COO of Microsoft making the proclamation that “Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we’ve ever built. It’s also the most secure OS on the planet, including Linux and open source [...]

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Michael Carney on March 5th, 2009

From Mactopolis:

Mac Mini Running Inside an Apple Disk II : How retro and cool is this? Certainly one for the extreme mac geek, creator and no doubt mac fan Charles Mangin created this gem. A Mac Mini encased inside an old Apple Disk II Case. Brilliant. Check out the images below:

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Michael Carney on January 30th, 2009

From Mactropolis.com:

The Macintosh Software Dating Game: Circa 1983: I don’t think this video requires much description. It takes place in 1983 at an Apple Event. Featured in this “Software Dating Game” are Fred Gibbons, President of Software Publishing Corporation; Mitch Kapor, President of Lotus Development; and of course Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft. I might [...]

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Michael Carney on January 15th, 2009

From Mactropolis.com: Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave Until End of June: Tim Cook Takes Over Operations: Looks like Steve Job’s health issues are a little more than he or anyone else expected. In a media release yesterday, he published this email to all Apple employees

Best of luck Steve. I don’t know what Apple will do without [...]

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Michael Carney on January 6th, 2009

The clock is counting down to the keynote at MacWorld Expo, the last to be attended by Apple. The Apple Store is offline and getting updated with new products. I wonder what’s going to end up there. Personally, I’m hoping that there’s an iPhone software update to deal with a couple of the little problems that [...]

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