Daniel Drew Turner

Apple introduced revamps to its entire laptop line on Feb. 26, boosting both the MacBook and MacBook Pro families with Intel’s new Core 2 Duo Penryn processor family. The new MacBook Pros “are the fastest Mac notebooks” Apple has ever produced, said Todd Benjamin, Apple’s director of portables product marketing. Benjamin said that the new […]

Apple updated and pared its enterprise storage product family Feb. 20, introducing the Xsan 2, an update to the Mac OS X-native SAN file system, and apparently dropping the Xserver RAID enterprise storage hardware. Priced at $999 and available immediately, Xsan 2 is “the first major update since [the product’s] introduction in January 2005,” said […]

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, […]