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Apple finally comes out fighting in Lodsys patent claim

by Adam Banks on May 23, 2011 in Analysis

After an anxious week of speculation, Apple has responded to the demands sent by patent holder Lodsys to a number of iOS app developers. Lodsys claimed that third-party apps featuring in-app purchases infringed its patent on “Methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network” (US 7222078) and asked for [...]

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Tests show iMac hard disk performance can vary by 100%

by Adam Banks on May 11, 2011 in Analysis

Apple has confirmed that it reserves the right to change the supplier and specification of the hard drives built into the latest iMac models, announced last week. In MacUser’s tests, undocumented variations between the drives fitted in different models resulted in transfer speeds ranging from 76 to 164 megabytes per second (MB/sec), making the quickest [...]

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‘Mac Security’ Trojan adds to Apple malware worries, but not much

by Adam Banks on May 6, 2011 in Analysis

While Windows PCs are plagued with myriad varieties of malware, making anti-virus protection essential, Apple users have traditionally had very little to worry about. Recent reports of a Trojan calling itself Mac Defender have provoked headlines crowing about Apple users no longer being immune to the threats faced by everyone else, but this isn’t the [...]

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Adobe ignores the moral of its own story at its peril

by Adam Banks on May 3, 2011 in Analysis
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By Ian Betteridge Once upon a time, there was a software company called Quark. Quark had, through a combination of smart engineering and aggressive business practices, become the dominant player in the nascent field of desktop publishing. If you were a pro publisher, you used QuarkXPress. The only real alternative – Adobe’s PageMaker – was [...]

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Is Apple heading for cloud nine?

by Kenny Hemphill on April 29, 2011 in Analysis

It’s one of the great mysteries of modern computing: why does Apple, a company that makes some of the most popular consumer electronics devices in the world and has proven itself capable of producing stunning software, suck so badly when it comes to the provision of online services? From its doomed attempt to compete with [...]

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Is Android shutting up shop?

by Kenny Hemphill on April 15, 2011 in Analysis

You may have noticed that the iPad 2 became available outside the US recently. Apparently there were one or two people milling around outside Apple retail stores waiting for it to go on sale at 5pm one Friday afternoon. Despite the huge, pent-up demand for Apple’s latest tablet, however, it enters a world very different [...]

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