Following the release of Safari 5.1.3 earlier this week — which was bundled with the OS X Lion 10.7.3 update — Apple has seeded Safari 5.1.4 to registered developers. The release includes improvements to both JavaScript performance, and the way in which the browser..."Ultra" in name only: the failures of Intel’s Ultrabook rules
Ultrabooks were the fashionable product to launch at CES this year. But the new Ultrabooks, meant to be PC competitors to the MacBook Air, seemed suspiciously fat. And heavy. And lacking in solid-state drives. Despite...
Piper Jaffray lowers its Mac estimate, raises its iPhone
Apple's U.S. MacBook sales came in softer than expected in December, according to NPD
MacBook Air. Photo: Apple Inc.
In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster offered his analysis of the NPD Group's final PC retail sales data for 2011.
The news, as he sees is, is good and bad.
Domestic Mac unit sales were...
Microsoft claims UK retailer sold counterfeit Windows recovery CDs
Microsoft today filed a legal complaint against Comet, a UK retailer which the company alleges sold 94,000 sets of Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs without Microsoft's blessing. While Microsoft called the CDs counterfeit...
Review: Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac
(We’re offering a $10 discount/free Parallels MacBook Air contest this week) If you are not new to Parallels, you will already be familiar with its ability to run Windows in a virtual machine within OS X. You might also be familiar with its Coherence view mode that allows you to run Windows and Mac OS...
Windows PCs with Thunderbolt ports on track for early 2012
2012 may be the year that Thunderbolt finally comes into its own, with a new report suggesting PC vendors will launch products with support for the new high-bandwidth connectivity standard as early as April next year. Apple was t......
Jack Goldman, founder of Xerox PARC dies at 90
Jacob "Jack" Goldman, the former head of research at Xerox and the founder of the company's Palo Alto Research Center, died on December 20 at the age of 90 of congestive heart failure. When Goldman joined Xerox...





