Office by Alex Penny
My name is Bill, I am a recent graduate in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University and this is a place for me to post or give my 2 cents on the fascinating world of technology. I am now working for a pretty big technology related company whose name I will leave out just to avoid any possible complications, however far-fetched them happening may be. Music gets included from time to time as well.
“Personally, I’m still suspicious of Apple,” said Harry Miller, head of the American Cinema Editors’ technology committee. “I don’t think they have my interests at heart. And I don’t want to invest money in any of their hardware or software when they might drop features in new versions.”
I used to work with a team that dealt with Oracle, I remember them talking about this coming up. It seems to me Oracle is trying to become the Apple of enterprise computing.
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Rick Sherland of Nomura Holdings, cited by Ian King and Dina Bass in Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Is Said to Fall Short of Predictions
There is no going back for PC sales, and for the decreasing number of users that require a ‘real’ PC there are other solutions that are significantly better than Windows 8-based PCs, especially high-end, well-designed OS X-based laptops.
We are well past the time of Peak PCs, and Microsoft doesn’t really have a response. So far they have sold less that 1.5M Surface tablets since October’s launch. Apple sold over 22M iPads in the last quarter of 2012 alone.
(via stoweboyd)I agree the pc is going away in form factor, but that’s a load of crap to call Mac’s an alternative for those that need a pc. Nevermind business user’s, pc’s that cost the same as Mac’s are just as good if not better. Apple may get the creative types, but Windows is the OS of business and that isn’t changing anytime soon.
(via stoweboyd)
Apple will be dropping a 128 Gig iPad. We here at Swag Is More are asking, is all that space necessary in a tablet?
Admittedly I’m not a fan of Apple, but this just seems like a ridiculous move to me. What makes the Surface Pro unique isn’t the more storage, it’s the fact that it is basically an ultrabook in tablet form. Why would somebody spend almost the same amount for a device that still functions like a regular tablet?
Exactly what I was thinking when this question was asked. Personally I thought Obama’s answer was a little more on track than this guy gives him credit for, but due to the nature of the election both sides weren’t willing to admit the hard truth. Some in this country may think it’s nuts to not want every job available here, but some jobs are just not worth what an American wage would be. We should be focusing on training our workforce and creating a supply of skilled, qualified workers that are involved in the part of the process that can’t be duplicated anywhere else.
It’s been bothering me how a case so ripe for parody wasn’t being noticed by them or The Daily Show.
Reposted from http://lat.ms/PizieT on August 24, 2012 at 08:40PM
The judge presiding over the infringement case between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. spotted two inconsistencies in the jury’s pro-Apple verdict and asked the nine-member jury to return to the deliberation room to reconsider the issues.
If something doesn’t seriously change between now and whatever result we get after the endless repeals process, we could be looking at a huge blow for innovation tonight. 3 days to deliberate a case so dense it deserved at least a week, ridiculous.
A writer loses everything on his iPhone, his iPad and his Mac—including all of the photos from the first year and a half of his daughter’s life—after a hacker infiltrates his Amazon, Apple, Gmail and Twitter accounts:
Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn’t have had to worry about losing more than a year’s worth of photos, covering the entire lifespan of my daughter, or documents and e-mails that I had stored in no other location.
Those security lapses are my fault, and I deeply, deeply regret them.
But what happened to me exposes vital security flaws in several customer service systems, most notably Apple’s and Amazon’s. Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information. In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification. The disconnect exposes flaws in data management policies endemic to the entire technology industry, and points to a looming nightmare as we enter the era of cloud computing and connected devices.
“How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking.” — Mat Honan, Wired
I’m almost embarrassed by how I feel reading this story. It really made me realize that someone accessing your online profiles can almost be as scary as physically getting robbed these days. I knew it was silly but I really did feel like I was reading somebody’s tale of finding out their home had been broken into. I don’t understand how he was able to talk to the hacker, I would have been too enraged to even type a sentence to the guy, but it does provide some valuable insight into who does things like this and what their motivation is. We throw around these idealistic and self-righteous purposes but at the end of the day you are still victimizing someone. Hopefully we can all learn something from Mat’s story and take precautions to better protect our data in the era of the cloud. Also take notice to how much of a role social engineering had in this, I feel he doesn’t stress that point enough.
(via longreads)
