John Rizzo

Intel has announced a new consumer platform brand, Viiv, which will focus on home entertainment by making high-powered PC hardware easy to use and giving it networking capabilities. Viiv-based PCs will integrate music, movies, photos and games, and will come with a remote as the main user controller for the PC. Don MacDonald, Intel Corp.s […]

Intel Corp. will port its software developer tools to Mac OS X and will ship its first beta later this year, the chip maker told developers on Tuesday at its first-ever session on Mac OS X at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Kevin Smith, director of Intel Compiler Labs, said that Intel will […]

Although two updates to Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X Tiger have fixed many compatibility problems, enterprise networking problems persist. A new update, version 10.4.3, is expected this summer, and will address some of the remaining problems, according to sources. Sources say that the update will fix continuing problems with integration with Microsoft Corp. Activity […]

When Windows Vista ships in late 2006, Windows will mimic many features of Apples Tiger and go beyond it. But while Microsoft introduces the world to Vista, Apple is keeping mum about its next version of Mac OS X, which Steve Jobs has said will ship at about the same time as Vista. It is […]

At Apples WWDC this week, the company said that applications written as Carbon applications, such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, would be the most difficult to port to Intel-based Macs. Apple also encouraged developers to open their source code to other developers and to use open source to help with the switch. Apple announced […]

In the operating system race thus far, Apples incremental approach to system releases has paid off compared to Microsofts strategy of giant leaps at long intervals. Since Windows XP shipped in 2001, Apple has shipped five major versions of Mac OS X. Apples Unix-based operating system started out far behind Windows XP, but is now […]

A number of sites running Apples new “Tiger” operating system are experiencing problems with SMB file sharing and authentication with Microsofts Active Directory, Ziff Davis Internet News has learned. Although Apple Computer Inc.s Tiger increases support for Server Message Block file sharing and Active Directory, several sources say that the Finder fails to log on […]

Some enterprise networking software developers have discovered that their products are not compatible with Apple Computer Inc.s new “Tiger” operating system and are recommending that their customers hold off on upgrading to Tiger, Ziff Davis Internet News has learned. While most developers point to dramatic changes in Tigers kernel as the reason, several claim that […]

When a large publishing company replaces old Mac OS 9 workstations and servers in a mixed-platform environment, it typically chooses between Windows and Mac OS X. The Las Vegas Review Journal,a company with 1,600 networked users in multiple locations, chose the latter. “We had to stay with Macs because we used software from [Harris &] […]

Its no stretch to say that Adobe Systems Inc.s Photoshop has made the transition from user application to major developer platform. Like a platform, Photoshop has a trade show, Photoshop World, featuring vendor booths displaying a diversity of third-party software created to “run on” Photoshop. You wont find a “Word User Magazine” on the newsstand, […]