Year: 2010

Greg’s bite: Department of Justice looks at the ‘Big Apple’

Greg’s bite: Department of Justice looks at the ‘Big Apple’

Posted by | May 28, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

In the title of this article, I am speaking of the Giant Electronics Firm, not the city by the same nickname. It seems incredible for those of use who took no end of ridicule over the year that we were “one of those”: un-PC Apple computer, non-conformists.  

We were told our computers were too expensive and that the end of Apple was in sight. Remember the statement, “I think Apple computers are easy to use, but they don’t do anything since there isn’t enough software for the platform.”

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iSobre presents inew line of sleeves for the iPad, iPhone

iSobre presents inew line of sleeves for the iPad, iPhone

Posted by | May 28, 2010 | |

iSobre has introduced a new line of sleeves for the iPad and iPhone. The sleeves are 100% leather with a soft deerskin layer outside and a cushiony suede inside.


The sleeves come in two different models iSobre Blue Baboon (sand color outside with an iceberg blue interior) and iSobre Bumble Bee (black in the outside and pure yellow color inside). To check out the different models and pricing go to http://www.isobre.com/store.php ; once there, you can participate in a contest for a free iPad.

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Antitrust lawyer: Apple vulnerable in iTunes antitrust probe

Antitrust lawyer: Apple vulnerable in iTunes antitrust probe

Posted by | May 28, 2010 | , |

Federal antitrust regulators may be able to build a case against Apple over its iTunes business because the company has a dominant share of the U.S. music download market, an antitrust lawyer told “Computerworld” (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177460/Apple_vulnerable_in_iTunes_antitrust_probe?source=rss_news). The size of Apple’s share matters to the government, according to Hillard Sterling, an antitrust attorney at Chicago-based law firm Freeborn & Peters LLP.

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Enterprise Desktop Alliance conducts survey of laptop.desktop market

Enterprise Desktop Alliance conducts survey of laptop.desktop market

Posted by | May 28, 2010 | , |

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance (http://enterprisedesktopalliance.com/) — an organization to help IT departments integrate Macs into the corporate environment — has opened a new survey to query IT administrators about whether they have non-Windows systems in their organizations, and if so, how many.

The results of the survey will provide a refinement to the Enterprise Desktop Alliance’s developing portrait of the distribution and management of personal computing devices in the enterprise. IT administrators are encouraged to contribute to the survey which will be online until June 21.

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