Onion: New Apple CEO Cook is 'thinking printers'
A very funny article on The Onion says that Apple's newly crowned CEO Tim Cook is "thinking printers." For those of us long-time in the Apple market, this is a very delicious joke.
A very funny article on The Onion says that Apple's newly crowned CEO Tim Cook is "thinking printers." For those of us long-time in the Apple market, this is a very delicious joke.
Apple on Tuesday released its Xsan 2 package, a major revision to its Storage Area Networking software package. The update revamps administration tools, adds support for third-party storage and features Spotlight/Leopard Server optimizations.
Synapsys Digital LLC this month put a snap into high-speed workgroup storage with the release of Triumph, the company's new line of Fibre Channel arrays and hubs.Aimed at content-creation workgroups, the Triumph line includes tower systems with five, eight, 16, and 32 bays for removable hard drive modules, and an eight-bay system in a rackmount enclosure.
Modem vendors last week were quick to rally behind the latest announcement of a 56-Kbps standard, but before taking advantage of it, users may have to wait for Internet service providers to get new equipment.The 56-Kbps standard, dubbed V.
At the recent San Francisco Macworld Expo/iWorld Expo and International CES in Las Vegas, vendors announced a wider number of Thunderbolt-enabled devices. Most will be released this year. But why haven't more Thunderbolt products already hit the market?
Thunderbolt cables aren't like the low-cost commodity USB and FireWire cables that come free with external hard drives or cameras or printers or whatever peripheral you might name. Now, for the first time, one vendor — LaCie — is offering a cable free with select, higher-priced storage systems.
How much value will longtime Mac and iOS developers find at this summer's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference? One such developer said he took a pass last year and didn't suffer too badly. Okay, he was in town, so it was more a non-attendance attendance.
Last week Apple pushed out a combined OS X Lion and security update. It's still being pushed out through the Software Update service. While most third-party applications appear to be playing well with the update, a number of serious compatibility issues have been reported, including problems mounting external SATA drives and software RAID volumes.
The speed available from Apple's Thunderbolt I/O technology is amazing. But good luck finding a cable when you really need one.
Following last week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), a number of developers are shining a bit of light on which iOS new features look good and which may need more work.