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Snow Leopard gets richer, thinner, cheaper than Windows 7

Prince McLean, AppleInsider

After trying to beat back the Mac’s increasing encroachment into the PC world with ads focused on price, Microsoft’s club has been picked up by Apple to give Windows 7 an embarrassing pummeling in terms of price.

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June 9, 2009   15 Comments

Apple begins stress testing iPhone 3.0 push notifications

Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Apple this week enlisted the services of the Associated Press and called upon many of its iPhone developers to help stress test its new Push Notification service slated for delivery in iPhone 3.0.

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May 18, 2009   1 Comment

Snow Leopard’s Boot Camp to support HFS+ under Windows

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The next version of Apple’s Boot Camp utility, shipping with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, will enable a natively-installed Windows partition to read HFS+ Mac partitions, sources say. [Read more →]

May 9, 2009   2 Comments

Apple opens developer forums to Snow Leopard discussion

Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Signaling an new open approach to its operating system development plans, Apple has announced new threads for discussing the forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system on the developer forums available to Apple Developer Connection Premier and Select members.

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May 8, 2009   No Comments

Snow Leopard Server to offer low cost, secure mobile access to iPhone

Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Apple will leverage the popularity of the iPhone to deliver business users new Mobile Access services in Snow Leopard Server to securely deliver corporate email, contact, calendar, and intranet web services to iPhone and iPod touch users far more cost effectively than Microsoft Windows Server.

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April 24, 2009   1 Comment

Text to get smarter in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

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Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, expected this summer, will deliver a variety of advanced text related features across all applications that use Core Text, according to people familiar with Apple’s plans.

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March 6, 2009   No Comments

Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales

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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

PC sales are in free fall as the weak demand for Windows desktops and full-size notebooks in a poorly performing global economy is being compounded by an influx of low cost netbooks, which are gobbling up the remains of profitability in the PC industry.

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February 16, 2009   19 Comments

Snow Leopard Server to ramp up scalability and performance

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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Building upon Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s aim to improve overall performance for Mac desktop users, Snow Leopard Server will similarly seek to improve scalability and reliability for Mac server users. That is particularly evident in improvements to its email and directory services.

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February 13, 2009   6 Comments

iPhone Push Notification Server tied to Snow Leopard Server

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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Despite licensing the proprietary ActiveSync Exchange Server protocol from Microsoft for use with the iPhone, Apple is building its own Push Notification Server for messaging services in both the iPhone and Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server using open, interoperable standards.

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February 11, 2009   2 Comments

Snow Leopard’s QuickTime may pack Pro features at no cost

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Prince McLean, AppleInsider
An architectural overhaul to Apple’s QuickTime media software due as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard may ship with a media player that bundles once-premium features at no cost.

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February 10, 2009   4 Comments