Daniel Drew Turner

This week AT&T announced a new plan for business users of the iPhone. Though the iPhone has been a smash hit with consumer users, corporations and enterprise installations have seen some resistance to wholesale adoption of the iPhone. The new plan requires the same two-year commitment as the regular plan, as well as a voice […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicked off Macworld Expo at the Moscone Center here with a series of major new product introductions, including an ultrathin MacBook, a new wireless router and backup device, and a new movie rental services. Jobs described the MacBook Air notebook as the world’s thinnest notebook, with its thickness ranging from […]

Only a week before the annual Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, Apple has released new Mac Pro Xserve models, both sporting twin quad-core, 45-nanometer processors at clock speeds of up to 3.2 GHz. The new Mac Pro is “the fastest Mac we’ve ever shipped,” said Tom Boger, Apple’s senior director of desktop, servers […]

The automatic updater for Intuit’s QuickBooks Pro 2006 and 2007 accounting software is causing massive data loss for Mac OS X users, Intuit confirmed. Users reported that applying the automatic updater sometimes deleted their Desktop folders, which could result in the loss of gigabytes of data. The data loss occurred after the updater displayed various […]

Apple has made strong surges in the personal computer space in the last decade, but the company has shown little direct interest in one large market where Windows still has a stronghold: the enterprise. Instead, Apple leaves the space open to third-party developers and service providers for companies that express interest in placing Macs in […]

Apple continues to consistently sell more laptops than desktops, even as a major iMac upgrade enabled desktop sales to achieve a temporary parity with mobile models in 2007. Apple CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed 2003 the “year of the laptop” and it wasnt long before sales of Mac portables hit a record high and numerically eclipsed […]

Apple has released, only through their iTunes application, a 1.1.2 system update for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. This addressed an “ImageIO” vulnerability that could allow the execution of malicious code through the viewing of a doctored TIFF image, according to Apple. The malicious TIFF image could cause a buffer overflow that could either […]

VMware on Nov. 12 released VMware Fusion 1.1, a free update to its $59.99 virtualization application for Mac OS X running on Intel-based Macs. The company claimed the new version will offer better performance over Version 1.0 and support for Mac OS X Leopard. Fusion 1.1 will also add “experimental” compatibility for Windows DirectX 9.0, […]

Users, developers and Mac bloggers have confirmed a serious bug in Apple’s recently released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Moving folders or files between network volumes, or even between volumes on the same disk, can result in total data loss on both the target and originating locations if there is a disruption of the connection. […]

These things usually happen on Tuesdays, but Apple quietly refreshed its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop lines Nov. 1. So quietly, in fact, that the company didn’t even bother to post a press release about it on its Web site. The new MacBooks get a significant architectural boost, moving to Intel’s “Santa Rosa” platform, which […]

Though few users will likely take note of a majority of the 300 listed new features in Apples Leopard edition of the OS X operating system, theres one interface change thats drawn the ire of some long-time Mac users who say it is a step backward. Stacks, which change the behavior of folders parked in […]

Few analysts, if any, short the Apple companys stock any more and fewer still were surprised the PC maker posted positive, and record breaking, quarterly PC sales figures, which were announced Oct. 22. But few expected the pace Apple is making in PC sales. The manufacturer moved 2,164,000 Macs in the third quarter of 2007, […]