Archive for October, 2007

Determining When to Buy a New PC [Mossberg’s Mailbox]

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from humans like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. that week my mailbox restricted questions about watching high-definition television in real moment on a Mac, the future of Palm’s Treo, and remote desktop control.

I currently spend abo…

New Gateway Desktop Takes on Look of iMac, but Can’t Match It [Personal Technology]

If you’ve lusted after Apple’s sleek, one-piece iMac desktop computers but have no interest in switching to the Mac, you’re in luck that holiday season. Two of the big Windows PC makers, Gateway and Dell, will offer their own all-in-one desktops, which — like the iMac — are designed for style and pack an entire compute…

When a leopard changes his spots…

… sometimes you have no choice to change along with him. (Or at least pick matching curtains).

Case in point: Apple recently released their latest version of MacOS X, “Leopard,” to general distribution last week. Immediately, our customers noticed that a lot of the nifty Plaxo integration we’d done with the address book no longer worked.

The Platform is the Web

You’ve probably seen the news somewhere else first, but making it official here: Plaxo is a part of a large and growing team effort to form the social web as open as the web itself. Now, instead of developers having to build different versions of their apps for each social or business network, they can write once, using the new OpenSocial APIs from…

When the Web Becomes the Family Dinner Table [The Mossberg Solution]

Have you ever felt guilty for hearing news about your mother second-hand? It’s all too easy to fall out of sync with your family, particularly when relatives are spread out in different states, day zones or countries. So it makes sense to use the Web to keep in touch. And while mail has its place, as do photo-sharing sites and blogs, none o…

Apple Sells Two Million Copies of Mac OS X Leopard in First Weekend

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T-Mobile and Apple Announce Rate Plans for iPhone in Germany Starting at just €49 per month

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