Type of Article: MacNews News Article

Comcast eyeing 250 Mbps service

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | , |

A “trusted source at Comcast told “Broadband Reports” (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Exploring-250-Mbps-Service-107002) that before the end of the year, we’ll begin hearing “rumblings” of a 250 Mbps service.

Comcast has already pushed DOCSIS 3.0 past 90% of their footprint, delivering 50 Mbps speeds in the process. While the company only offers 100 Mbps service in one market, a source told “Broadband Reports” that Comcast will be pushing faster 100 Mbps service to around 20% of their market by year’s end. 250 Mbps will take a bit longer.

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Apple’s Phil Schiller explains Apple App Store bans

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | |

Apple has started banning many applications for its iPhone that feature sexually suggestive material, and Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, told “The New York Times” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/technology/23apps.html) the reasoning behind the move.

He said that Apple was responding to complaints from App Store users. Schiller said a small number of developers had been submitting “an increasing number of apps containing very objectionable content.”

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‘MacVoices’ looks at the new PaperShow product

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | |

On the new MacVoices (http://www.macvoices.com), Giulia Giovanelli of Canson provides a tour of PaperShow, a product that combines the best parts of whiteboard, telestrator and plain old pen-and-paper to give you new control and capabilities in your business presentations.

Driven by a special pen interface, PaperShow users can annotate presentations, meeting notes and more in real time in a variety of ways, and can be transported since it relies only on a USB thumb drive-sized device, a special pen and paper.

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‘MacVoices’ looks at CrashPlan and the company’s presence at Macworld 2010

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | |

On a new MacVoices (http://www.macvoices.com), Matthew Dornquast, co-founder of CrashPlan, discusses the promotional strategy that involved giving away copies of their premium product at Macworld 2010, and the response they received at the show.

Dornqueast also reviews their different levels of service and what makes them unique, the security of your data both in transit and at the final backup destination, and more.

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Survey: 66% of IT administrations expect their organizations to increase the number of Macs

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | , |

In response to an annual survey concluded in January 2010 by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (http://www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com ), an organization started to help IT departments integrate Macs into the corporate environment, 66% of 322 IT administrators from large organizations with both Macs and PCs stated that their organization expects to increase the number of Macs in their sites.

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