Strong iPhone 3G-S sales
(Friday, June 26th, 2009)
Steve Jobs is rejoicing: It seems that Apple already sold more than 1 million iPhone 3G-S (the new Apple mobile phone) in the first 5 days after its launch.
Safari 4, fast new browser
(Monday, June 15th, 2009)
Apple is not only delivering sleek computer designs and nice little mobile phones. They are also producing a good web browser: Safari.
It’s new version, Safari 4, is just out. Faster, still as good and powerful, but Apple is now claiming the crown for the “fastest” web browser. It could well be possible when Snow Leopard OS-X becomes available later this year. Running natively as a 64-bit Mac application, it could gain 50% from today’s already powerful base of Safari 4.
Safari version 4
Safari 4 is available for Windows XP, Vista, or mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer.
Software galore
(Sunday, May 25th, 2008)
We never can get enough of them, but our computers are sometimes overflowing. Software applications are everywhere, but how to choose the right one for the task at hand? I built a real collection of pages where you will be able to find nearly all you can dream for nearly all computers:
- Five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
- Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software
- The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install
- Battle of the Free Windows Software Firewalls; We have to admit that there is no longer any good reason to pay for your computer security under Windows.
- Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications
- Logiciels gratuits from TutoWeb.
- Now, to look into the future, Sneak peek at OpenOffice.org 3.0
- And, last but not least, for old dinosaurs, let’s remind you that you can still use VAX-VMS on your Linux PC. If you don’t know what I am saying, either you’re too young, or you never received a hacker education. Or both.
Sony joins the DRM-free crowd
(Saturday, January 5th, 2008)
It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change.
Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually ready to pay MP3 files to Apple and Amazon if the protection is not included (or very limited). Instead of staying behind (and off the sales increase for online music) disc producers come back to reason.
About Sony, I don’t know yet if the move will immediately cover the full catalog or a part only, but this is already going far enough to say that this is only a matter of time.
The door is opening wide onto the online sales of legal MP3 files but without silly protection.
Source: Business Week.
