Year: 2010

LoginTrap for Mac OS X gets speed boost

Posted by | May 19, 2010 | , |

ProteMac has announced ProteMac LoginTrap 1.2 (http://protemac.com/LoginTrap/), an update of the tool designed to prevent unauthorized usage of a Mac. The upgrade offers speed increases and some bug fixes.

LoginTrap monitors all log-in events and detects whether a log-in attempt was successful or failed. After a log-in attempt is made the program captures an image from the iSight camera, so that you are able to see who is trying to break into your Mac. An alarm e-mail with iSight camera snapshot attached is sent immediately after a log-in attempt.

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Apple files trademark for retail store design

Apple files trademark for retail store design

Posted by | May 19, 2010 | , |

Apple’s attorneys have filed applications to trademark the design of the company’s retail stores, including the gray stainless steel and the light-brown wood of the display tables, reports ifoAppleStore (http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2010/05/18/apple-trademarks-retail-store-design/).

“The mark consists of distinctive design and layout of a retail store,” state the applications filed May 12 by attorney Lisa Widup. There are two versions of the trademark application, one describing the store in color and the other one in black-and-white.

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First quarter of 2010 was iPhone’s strongest quarter yet

First quarter of 2010 was iPhone’s strongest quarter yet

Posted by | May 19, 2010 | , |

The iPhone had 2.7% of the worldwide mobile phone market in the first quarter of 2010 compared to 1.55 in the same time period of 2009, according to the Gartner research group (http://www.gartner.com). Apple sold approximately 8.4 million iPhones in 1Q2010 compared to approximately 3.9 million in 1Q2009.

Ahead of Apple, globally, for 1Q2010 are Nokia (35% market share), Samsung (20.6%), LG (8.6%), RIM (3.4% and Sony Ericsson (3.1%). The first quarter of 2010 was Apple’s strongest quarter yet, which placed the company in the No. 7 position with a 112.2% increase in mobile devices sales.

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‘MacNotables’ looks at the stolen iPhone prototype brouhaha

Posted by | May 19, 2010 | |

The latest edition of “MacNotables” (http://www.macnotables.com/wordpress), a podcast that serves as home to Mac personalities who will comment on the latest news and opinions in the Mac community, is available.

Ted Landau and host Chuck Joiner offer some opinions on the lost/stolen iPhone prototype debacle. They discuss it from both a legal and common-sense perspective, covering what was and wasn’t a crime, and the harm that Apple did or didn’t suffer.

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