According to Eweek, quoting Stephen Elop, director of Microsoft Professional Division, Microsoft might be offering in the future an Office Suite dedicated to the iPhone. IT will of course be a reduced version with less features, but one would be able to edit files.
It is rather amazing how Microsoft is able to close its eyes on past or on-going conflicts or fights with Apple when there is an opportunity to get market share on a new growing market, as they were not able to create it. Such suite will most likely be rather expensive and not be free or only cost the usual few USD as most of iPhone apps.
Palm Pre Continues to Generate Interest at CTIA Mobile
In the minds of many, the unreleased Palm Pre may be the biggest potential threat to Apple's growing iPhone marketshare. Announced at CES, the Palm Pre is an entirely new platform developed by Palm to replace their long-running Palm OS.
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Signs of Hope for Skypers, Shufflers and App Pack Rats Alike
Skype for the iPhone appears to have captured the imaginations of Apple bloggers this week. Meanwhile, iPod shuffle sales surprisingly surged, and news of iPhone 3.0 OS software features continued to trickle in. Ever since the iPhone emerged, Skype fans have been wondering when they'd get a chance to use their favorite VoIP service for Internet-based Skype phone calls. The iPhone has been capable of VoIP services for some time, and other VoIP apps exist, but the emergence of a network as popular as Skype is noteworthy.
Radeon HD 4890: First Benchmarks Rather Disappointing
The NDA ended yesterday for the RAdeon HD 4890, and several dedicated websites have flooded the net with numerous tests, all aiming to demonstrate if the Radeon HD 4890 is the expected killer graphic card.
As a reminder, it features a higher clocked GPU (100 MHz) and memory (75 MHz) when compared to the Radeon HD 4870. Performance are globally in line the clock frequency difference or gain, however the card seems to be rather noisy. this might be the cost to pay for a card with a high potential to be overclocked (most card tested have reached 1 GHz for the GPU).
we are currently working on a procedure to flash such card to make it working in a Mac by using the ROM EFI from the Mac Radeon HD 4870. It was so far unsuccessful, we are still working on it.
It seems that the retailed version of the Radeon HD 4870 is still blocked to 4-5 weeks shipping delay on the Apple Store... problem with stocks or production?
Texas bans Microsoft Vista from Government Use
Filed under: Software, Switchers
We're not Microsoft Windows haters here at TUAW. In fact, Microsoft makes some very fine products for the Mac including some very useful ergonomic keyboards and some terrific mice. They also make a pretty decent suite of Office applications that many Mac owners use each and every day.Heck, a guy even made a movie using Microsoft products, which we featured right here at TUAW. However, after seeing that the entire State of Texas has decided that Microsoft Windows Vista should not be used in any government agency, we might have to take a minute and reconsider our opinion on the giant from Redmond's flagship product.
According to Sen. Juan Hinojosa, vice chairman of the Finance Committee who proposed the ban, he did so because "of the many reports of problems with Vista." He goes on to say that:
"We are not in any way, shape or form trying to pick on Microsoft, but the problems with this particular [operating] system are known nationwide. And the XP operating system is working very well."
That's all well and good and for many of you Windows XP may, in fact, be working without problems. However, given the well-known issue with Vista, perhaps the Texas legislature is on to something? Who knows, given their current mindset, maybe they'd be interested in switching everyone in government to the Mac?
You hear that Apple, Texas needs you to give them a call.
(Thanks for the tip Melissa)
TUAWTexas bans Microsoft Vista from Government Use originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple Error Confirms Xserve Refresh Coming Soon
PC World reports that an error on Apple's Hong Kong online store reveals that an announcement of new Xserve models featuring Intel "Nehalem" processors should be occurring in the near future. The error involves a broken image on the main Xse...
A Miraculous Product to Turn SD in HD
ArcSoft Inc announced to have developed an unique process to upscale SD source into an almost HD format. The upscaling is a procedure aiming to increase the resolution of an image or a video.
their application used algorithm to expand missing video/image contents of the SD source to upscale it. The price of the application alone is 89.99 USD, and 119.99 USD when it is bundled with a NVidia card able to speed up the process. This is not a real-time treatment, and if you want to upscale a video saved on a DVD, you will have to copy the DVD contain on your HD to be able to treat it.
Of course, the marketing points are pretending miraculous result, however nobody nor any system is able to create the missing information in the SD source, so it is only extrapolation, and you will never turn a DVD in to Blu-ray, except if it is only based on simple geometrical figures...
Is Microsoft preparing an iPhone version of its Office Suite?
According to Eweek, quoting Stephen Elop, director of Microsoft Professional Division, Microsoft might be offering in the future an Office Suite dedicated to the iPhone. IT will of course be a reduced version with less features, but one would be able to edit files.
It is rather amazing how Microsoft is able to close its eyes on past or on-going conflicts or fights with Apple when there is an opportunity to get market share on a new growing market, as they were not able to create it. Such suite will most likely be rather expensive and not be free or only cost the usual few USD as most of iPhone apps.
Palm Pre Continues to Generate Interest at CTIA Mobile
In the minds of many, the unreleased Palm Pre may be the biggest potential threat to Apple's growing iPhone marketshare. Announced at CES, the Palm Pre is an entirely new platform developed by Palm to replace their long-running Palm OS.
<b...
Signs of Hope for Skypers, Shufflers and App Pack Rats Alike
Skype for the iPhone appears to have captured the imaginations of Apple bloggers this week. Meanwhile, iPod shuffle sales surprisingly surged, and news of iPhone 3.0 OS software features continued to trickle in. Ever since the iPhone emerged, Skype fans have been wondering when they'd get a chance to use their favorite VoIP service for Internet-based Skype phone calls. The iPhone has been capable of VoIP services for some time, and other VoIP apps exist, but the emergence of a network as popular as Skype is noteworthy.Radeon HD 4890: First Benchmarks Rather Disappointing
The NDA ended yesterday for the RAdeon HD 4890, and several dedicated websites have flooded the net with numerous tests, all aiming to demonstrate if the Radeon HD 4890 is the expected killer graphic card.
As a reminder, it features a higher clocked GPU (100 MHz) and memory (75 MHz) when compared to the Radeon HD 4870. Performance are globally in line the clock frequency difference or gain, however the card seems to be rather noisy. this might be the cost to pay for a card with a high potential to be overclocked (most card tested have reached 1 GHz for the GPU).
we are currently working on a procedure to flash such card to make it working in a Mac by using the ROM EFI from the Mac Radeon HD 4870. It was so far unsuccessful, we are still working on it.
It seems that the retailed version of the Radeon HD 4870 is still blocked to 4-5 weeks shipping delay on the Apple Store... problem with stocks or production?
Texas bans Microsoft Vista from Government Use
Filed under: Software, Switchers
We're not Microsoft Windows haters here at TUAW. In fact, Microsoft makes some very fine products for the Mac including some very useful ergonomic keyboards and some terrific mice. They also make a pretty decent suite of Office applications that many Mac owners use each and every day.Heck, a guy even made a movie using Microsoft products, which we featured right here at TUAW. However, after seeing that the entire State of Texas has decided that Microsoft Windows Vista should not be used in any government agency, we might have to take a minute and reconsider our opinion on the giant from Redmond's flagship product.
According to Sen. Juan Hinojosa, vice chairman of the Finance Committee who proposed the ban, he did so because "of the many reports of problems with Vista." He goes on to say that:
"We are not in any way, shape or form trying to pick on Microsoft, but the problems with this particular [operating] system are known nationwide. And the XP operating system is working very well."
That's all well and good and for many of you Windows XP may, in fact, be working without problems. However, given the well-known issue with Vista, perhaps the Texas legislature is on to something? Who knows, given their current mindset, maybe they'd be interested in switching everyone in government to the Mac?
You hear that Apple, Texas needs you to give them a call.
(Thanks for the tip Melissa)
TUAWTexas bans Microsoft Vista from Government Use originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple Error Confirms Xserve Refresh Coming Soon
PC World reports that an error on Apple's Hong Kong online store reveals that an announcement of new Xserve models featuring Intel "Nehalem" processors should be occurring in the near future. The error involves a broken image on the main Xse...
A Miraculous Product to Turn SD in HD
ArcSoft Inc announced to have developed an unique process to upscale SD source into an almost HD format. The upscaling is a procedure aiming to increase the resolution of an image or a video.
their application used algorithm to expand missing video/image contents of the SD source to upscale it. The price of the application alone is 89.99 USD, and 119.99 USD when it is bundled with a NVidia card able to speed up the process. This is not a real-time treatment, and if you want to upscale a video saved on a DVD, you will have to copy the DVD contain on your HD to be able to treat it.
Of course, the marketing points are pretending miraculous result, however nobody nor any system is able to create the missing information in the SD source, so it is only extrapolation, and you will never turn a DVD in to Blu-ray, except if it is only based on simple geometrical figures...
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