Daniel Eran Dilger Several readers have asked me to comment on the brouhaha between Apple and Palm regarding iTunes syncing, either to castigate Apple for throwing roadblocks in front of its weaker competitor, or to complain that Palm is unfairly trying to appropriate Apple’s software. However, I don’t think Palm is even on Apple’s radar as [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger After posting a spectacular 17% revenue drop, the company’s first ever year over year decline, Microsoft and its satellite pundits have assembled a seemingly plausible distraction/solution going forward: Windows 7 will boost sales of generic PCs back into orbit and erase the crater caused by Vista and the recession. They’re wrong, here’s why. . In [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider A variety of sources have published a story accusing the iPhone 3.0 software of broadcasting “your AIM [instant] messages to random recipients without your knowledge or consent.” In reality, the problem is created by hackers experimenting with their phones without understanding what they were doing. Without user tampering, the iPhone’s security layer actually [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger Brett Arends, the notorious shill who filed discredited attacks on the iPhone launch in Jim Cramer’s the Street listing “Five reasons not to buy an iPhone” and attacking the new phone at its launch for supposedly costing buyers “$17,670,” is now printing his fully unsubstantiated opinions on Apple in the Wall Street Journal. . “Apple [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger Lately, it seems like all those writers who take gifts from Microsoft can’t help but talk about Microsoft’s Bing as a looming threat to Google. Can you imagine those same people characterizing Safari as a potential savager to Internet Explorer? Of course not, yet Safari’s share of the browser market is greater and [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger When Microsoft released Windows Vista after 6 years and $6 billion of development, the company was so proud of its new product that it hiked the price dramatically over the existing Windows XP. Two and a half embarrassing years later, Microsoft is showing its pride in the revamped Windows 7 by unprecedentedly giving [...]

Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about HTML5 and the future of the web. Listen and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at: The Tech Night Owl LIVE with Gene Steinberg Recent episodes: July 9, 2009, Mozilla and Opera fight to make Ogg Theora the official codec of HTML 5. June [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider One of the more overlooked features of the new iPhone 3.0 is support for a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, which promises to open up standards-based video broadcasting to a wide audience while giving mobile users an optimized picture as they roam between WiFi and mobile networks. Apple launches HTTP [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider According to sources familiar with Apple’s plans, the company will drop deployment support for its WebObjects web application server in Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server later this year. Apple to drop WebObjects in Snow Leopard Server . WebObjects is Apple’s enterprise framework for developing web applications and the company’s Java web application server that deploys [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider Pundits are roasting Apple over a scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera to define the free Ogg Theora video codec as the official way to present video on the web in the new HTML 5 specification. The problem: HTML isn’t supposed to define content codecs, and even if it were, Ogg Theora, commercially [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger So I’ve been pulling my hair out over my iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S both refusing to stay on WiFi and failing to automatically reconnect after waking from sleep ever since the upgrade to iPhone 3.0. Strangely enough, my original iPhone doesn’t seem to have the problem. Apparently I’m not alone, as Google [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider The original iPhone defined a new height of spectacle in consumer electronics launches. With the release of the iPhone 3G S, Apple has managed to keep the media circus surrounding its new smartphones engaged for the third year in a row, and has greatly improved its in-store processing. AppleInsider | Buying a new iPhone [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider Announced at WWDC, Apple’s new Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe services went online today with the warning that high traffic to the site might slow or prevent access for users trying it out on launch day. The site appears to be up intermittently and yet not actually functional yet MobileMe pushes out new [...]

Michael L Basham & Prince McLean, AppleInsider Despite warnings from AT&T that claimed high demand for the new iPhone 3G S would prevent it from shipping pre-orders by the June 19 launch date, Apple is still promising to satisfy all web pre-orders with a Friday delivery. Apple says iPhone 3G S pre-orders will be filled on time . The [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider In marked contrast to the PC market, where differention primarily centers around gigabytes, GHz, and Intel Inside branding, Apple is working to keep attention on the iPhone’s software, with a curious avoidance of any mention of the make or specification of its internals, apparently for competitive reasons. Why Apple keeps iPhone specifications quiet. The specifications [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider In marked contrast to the PC market, where differention primarily centers around gigabytes, GHz, and Intel Inside branding, Apple is working to keep attention on the iPhone’s software, with a curious avoidance of any mention of the make or specification of its internals, apparently for competitive reasons. Why Apple keeps iPhone specifications quiet. The specifications [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider Leading anti-virus software producers Symantec and McAfee will face new competition in the lucrative market for fixing Windows when Microsoft launches its own free security service, dubbed Morro, sometime in the second half of 2009. AppleInsider | Microsoft announces free anti-virus service for Windows. Three years ago, Microsoft unveiled Live OneCare, the corporation’s first attempt [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider The iPhone 3G S uses a Samsung processor incorporating an ARM Cortex-A8 processor core and Imagination’s PowerVR SGX graphics core to achieve a significant new class of speed while remaining backwardly compatible with existing iPhone apps. A closer look at iPhone 3G S Cortex-A8 ARM and PowerVR chips . The use of the Cortex-A8 core has [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider The new iPhone 3G S achieves its OpenGL ES 2.0 support using the PowerVR SGX graphics processor core, according to sources familiar with the new iPhone’s graphics processor design, as AppleInsider first anticipated in a report last April that broke news of a secret deal struck between Imagination Technologies, Samsung, and Apple. iPhone 3G [...]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider After trying to beat back the Mac’s increasing encroachment into the PC world with ads focused on price, Microsoft’s club has been picked up by Apple to give Windows 7 an embarrassing pummeling in terms of price. Snow Leopard gets richer, thinner, cheaper than Windows 7 . Explaining that the company wanted as many Mac OS [...]