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- Steve Jobs Unveils Apple TV At Macworld
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- Microsoft Patches 10 Bugs, Omits Word Fixes
- Motorola, NewsGator To Extend Corporate Newsfeeds To Mobile Workers
- Mac Users To Get New Office Suite For Intel Macs
- Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Ultimate Extras
- IBM Wants To Help Small Businesses Bring Products To Market Faster
- MI5 To E-Mail Terrorist Alerts
- Microsoft Turned To National Security Agency For Vista Security Help
- Yahoo Needs Cellular Partner For Mobile Search Fight
- EFF Says First Amendment Protects Links To Leaked Corporate Documents
- Cisco Teams With Jabber For Collaborative Messaging
- Startup Promises First Linux Smartphone Based On Open Standards
- Outsourcing Watch: India's Tech Profits Seen Up
4. In Depth: At CES
- Bill Gates' CES Keynote: Vista To Drive Downloadable Apps
- Disney To Launch More Massively Multiplayer Games
- Image Gallery: Live From The CES 2007 Show Floor
- Mobile Devices In Vogue At Big U.S. Electronics Show
- Yahoo Unveils New Mobile Search At CES
- Netgear Showcases Internet Receiver For TVs
- HP Unveils Touch-Screen PC On Vista
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- CES 2007: It's Not Just Tech Folks Anymore
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- Best Practices For Secure Desktop-Based Information Search
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." -- Sam Ewig
I have a fairly cool phone. I have a Motorola Razr: Bluetooth enabled, ultra-thin and with a decent digital camera. Until a couple of hours ago, I was pretty pleased with it. That was until I saw the new iPhone, introduced today at Macworld.
Now I haven't actually seen it in person, but reporter Sharon Gaudin did. However, it doesn't take much more than a glimpse at Apple's home page to determine the iPhone's coolness factor is very high. What really caught my eye is its Web browser. Most people I know don't use a regular phone to go online. If they need to use the Web, they have a BlackBerry, Treo, or some sort of PDA for that purpose. Until now.
Current Mac users will recognize the Safari browser. But you don't have to be a Mac user to have the phone automatically sync bookmarks from your Mac or PC. What's particularly fun is that you can see a page either vertically or horizontally—think of it as widescreen for your phone. A finger tap on the display lets you zoom in. Apple excels at creating technology that helps us achieve practical goals: working wirelessly, listening to personalized music selections, reading the latest news. In addition to adding a phone to its lineup, Apple also has introduced an appliance that acts as a companion to your television set.
The company officially took the wraps off Apple TV this morning. The device should make watching those movies and other videos that are downloaded onto your computer easier to watch, because it will wirelessly communicate with your TV. Apple TV measures 7.7 inches by 7.7 inches, has a 40-Gbyte hard drive for storing content locally, and can hold up to 50 hours of movies and TV shows, plus up to 9,000 songs and 25,000 pictures. It also supports 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n Wi-Fi networking. And, it will work with both Macs and PCs.
Speaking of Macs and PCs, there are vociferous opinions as to whether OS X is superior to Windows Vista. Our reviewer John Welch falls squarely in the Mac camp. Do you? Check out his opinion and let me know yours. In the meantime, I'm going to see when my mobile phone contract is up.
Jennifer Bosavage
Apple Reinvents The Phone
Related Stories:
Steve Jobs Unveils Apple TV At Macworld
Review: Mac OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vista
110th Congress Wastes No Time On Net Neutrality
Microsoft Patches 10 Bugs, Omits Word Fixes
Motorola, NewsGator To Extend Corporate Newsfeeds To Mobile Workers
Mac Users To Get New Office Suite For Intel Macs
Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Ultimate Extras, Online Add-Ons For The OS
IBM Wants To Help Small Businesses Bring Products To Market Faster
MI5 To E-Mail Terrorist Alerts
Microsoft Turned To National Security Agency For Vista Security Help
Yahoo Needs Cellular Partner For Mobile Search Fight With Google, Microsoft
EFF Says First Amendment Protects Links To Leaked Corporate Documents
Cisco Teams With Jabber For Collaborative Messaging
Startup Promises First Linux Smartphone Based On Open Standards
Outsourcing Watch: India's Tech Profits Seen Up
India's flourishing software firms should report robust quarterly profits as they win large outsourcing deals from Western clients.
Outlook For 2007
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Bill Gates' CES Keynote: Vista To Drive Downloadable Apps
Image Gallery: Live From The CES 2007 Show Floor
Disney To Launch More Massively Multiplayer Games
Mobile Devices In Vogue At Big U.S. Electronics Show
Yahoo Unveils New Mobile Search At CES
Netgear Showcases Internet Receiver For TVs
HP Unveils Touch-Screen PC On Vista
CES 2007: It's Not Just Tech Folks Anymore
Best Practices For Secure Desktop-Based Information Search In The Enterprise
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Apple's CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone, which he says is an iPod, a mobile phone, and an Internet communication device.
The device has a 40-GB hard drive and an Intel processor. Jobs says it will change the way people watch digital media.
Amid the hype surrounding the release of Windows Vista, Mac users are taking solace from the fact that OS X is still a champ on many fronts.
Podcast: Why Mac OS X Beats Windows Vista
Listen to a podcast interview with John C. Welch as he talks about his recent InformationWeek article that compares Microsoft Windows Vista with Apple Mac OS X and finds Vista wanting. He responds to feedback on the article, describes why OS X outshines Vista, and talks about the general outlook for Apple vs. Microsoft.
The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007 drew immediate praise from groups that lobbied for the legislation last year.
Three of the updates involve Microsoft's Office suite, while the fourth affects Internet Explorer, the developer's oft-patched Web browser.
Workers will be able to access the content over a broad range of devices, including the Motorola Q, Samsung BlackJack, and the Palm Treo.
The package of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, and e-mail software is designed for both Intel-based new Macs and older machines that use IBM's Power PC processor.
Downloadable features enhance Windows Vista with business-oriented tools as well as consumer-friendly ones.
IBM is partnering with UGS to deliver a slenderized version of Teamcenter Express to help small and mid-size businesses manage collaborative product data used in the design, manufacturing, and delivery of a new product.
"E-mail alerts of changes to the national Threat Level and updates on the Security Service website will be available in the near future," the agency's statement reads.
The NSA detailed a team to work with Microsoft on the new operating system, which is expected to be used by hundreds of millions of computer users.
Providing online services to mobile-phone users will be an engine of revenue growth for Yahoo during the next three years, senior VP Marco Boerries said at CES.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says a writer has a right to link from a public wiki to electronic copies of Eli Lilly documents showing side effects of a drug.
The deal gives Cisco's communications platform a capability—multiuser chat—missing from competing offerings from IBM and Microsoft, says Jabber.
OpenMoko plans to start selling an open source mobile platform and the Neo1973 smartphone developed in partnership with First International Computer.
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In his Sunday CES keynote, Gates said Windows Vista will offer computer users the ability to gain additional features over time—for a price.
High-definition TVs, ultra-mobile PCs, MP3 players, and crowds, crowds, crowds are some of the views we captured in our travels through the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Walt Disney Co. sees launching more online so-called massively multiplayer games as part of a strategy to entertain kids wherever they go.
Some electronics makers are aiming squarely at Apple Computer's market-dominating iPod.
OneSearch is Yahoo's bid to make mobile phone search easier to use.
The product can stream to a TV online video, music, radio programs, news feeds, and other content and organize in a single library media files from other devices attached to a home network.
The TouchSmart PC is but one of several new Hewlett-Packard products introduced in Las Vegas Monday.
The crowds at the Consumer Electronics Show are a revelation to Barbara Krasnoff, somebody who has spent most of her professional life writing about computers and associated technologies. Not just the vast number of companies shouting for the attention of the buyers and media—although classifying some of the products here as "consumer" can be a stretch—but the attention it's getting in the popular media.
The purpose of this paper is to urge IT management to recognize the pervasiveness and imminent entry of desktop search technology into their environments, be aware of its significant benefits and potential threats to information security, and proactively evaluate and deploy a centrally managed enterprise desktop search solution.
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