Author: neil

Is Apple considering a long term plan to develop its own chips?

Posted by | Feb 11, 2010 | |

The fact that the iPad, introduced last week, uses an Apple designed A4 chip offers a hint at future iPhones, iPod touches and—who knows?—perhaps even Macs.

The A4 was custom designed by Apple engineers to to be extremely powerful, and yet extremely power efficient. It apparently uses technology from PA Semi, a boutique microprocessor design company that Apple acquired in 2008. With Apple now in control of its own processors, you can bet good money that the A4 will appear in an upcoming iPhone. Then the iPod touch.

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iPad a finalist in the Fiasco Awards

Posted by | Feb 11, 2010 | |

The iPad is among the eight finalists for the 2010 Fiasco Awards (http://www.fiascoawards.com/), reports “Typically Spanish” (http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_25037.shtml).

The jury announced the selection of the final eight from the 32 candidates nominated in Barcelona for the second year of the Fiasco Awards. The jury said the iPad is nominated as it could “go the same was as Obama with the Nobel Prize and win the award before it does anything.”

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New Kerio Connect 7 GroupWare Server

Posted by | Feb 9, 2010 | , |

NEW KERIO CONNECT 7 GROUPWARE SERVER TARGETS ORGANIZATIONS WITH MULITPLE BRANCH OFFICES

Kerio’s Distributed Domain Cluster Promotes Inter-office
Contact Sharing and Calendar Event Scheduling

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Macworld Conference & Expo 2010 – February 9, 2010 – The new Kerio Connect 7, previously known as Kerio MailServer, marks the messaging server’s entry into the market of midsize, multi-office deployments, giving customers an option to link standalone servers into a single distributed domain system.

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