Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP

With Bill Gates saying good-bye to Microsoft this week, we're realizing more by the day how much we'll miss the guy. This email is several pages of Gates just laying into his design and programming staff for—among other issues—his personal experience when trying to install Windows Moviemaker.

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Apple proposes OpenCL as high-speed computing standard

Apple has signed on to an industry-wide alliance that will see many companies, including some of the Mac maker's processor and video card suppliers, work together to develop an open format for accelerating specialized computing. Dubbed the Compute Working Group, the organization managed by Khronos Group has been formed this week and includes...

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Local investors to rescue Philly wi-fi

A group of local investors will rescue the city's trailblazing wireless network from what seemed like imminent shutdown, with a new for-profit company that will replace Earthlink Inc. as the system's operator, according to multiple sources close to the deal.

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Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web

One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled "Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore." While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session, the secret of SproutCore is out because it is an open source project and people can't stop talking abou

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Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore

Dan Digler of Roughly Drafted explains how Apple's recent announcement of Mobile Me also heralds the rise of a web-based Cocoa bringing OSX style applications to Windows and Linux via open web standards.

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What's new in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

Apple’s public introduction of Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, was decidedly brief at WWDC, with only passing public mention of its new feature set. Apple is advancing a new software product that improves upon its fundamentals rather than advancing a lot of marketing features. Nothing New, Everything Newer.

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Yahoo, Microsoft talks have "concluded"

Yahoo on Thursday afternoon revealed that talks between itself and Microsoft have come to an end, putting an abrupt halt to prospects of a renewed deal between the two companies. The early search engine pioneer says that "numerous" meetings were unsuccessful in negotiating a partial transaction.

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Source: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Will Support PowerPC Chips [R

Contrary to rumors that Apple would drop PowerPC architecture support with its newest OS, A tipster and possible Apple insider was able to get his hands on the most recent build of the yet to be released 10.6, and found some evidence that Cupertino might be keeping the chip alive.

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LOOPRumors - Apple to make .Mac free and change name?

There has been speculation of an update to Apple’s .Mac online service in recent days.

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Apple set to serve up first builds of Mac OS X 10.5.4

Apple is preparing to begin widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.4, its fourth maintenance and security update to the Leopard operating system, AppleInsider has learned. People familiar with the matter say developers could have the first pre-release copies of the operating system update in their hands by week's end.

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Five Ways Steve Jobs Can Turn On Apple TV Sales

Apple TV does a lot of other things too, such as photo viewing, AirTunes audio streaming, YouTube, and podcasts. However, none of those things compare to five killer applications Apple could quite easily add to the box, turning it into a hot seller and subsequently driving iTunes media sales and rentals. Here’s what they are.

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2012: The Year The Internet Ends

How the industry will kill the Internet in about 4 years from now.

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