‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Dec. 8
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 8, 2008 at 3:48pm
“Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook: Faced with the perfect storm of a bleak market and a boom in ultra-budget portables, Apple is believed by some to be readying its own take on the netbook for the first half of 2009.”—AppleInsider
“Apple Might Brings Us An iPhone Flip Phone: Research in Motion isn’t the only one who knows how to translate an existing brand (BlackBerry) into the realm of flip phones. It seems that Apple and Cupertino could be heading that way as well.”—High Tech Lounge
“Ex-Appler resurrects Mac-friendly RAID: Apple’s XServe RAID may have given up the ghost, but now there’s a new option for storage-hungry Mac shops.”—The Register
“Could Steve Jobs save Microsoft?: The company was in disarray. Competitors had beaten its percentage of the market down and the trend looked set to continue.”—New Zealand Herald
“Over 100 fixes coming in Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update: Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update is on course to deliver dozens of new bug fixes to users of the company’s Leopard operating system, with recently leaked developer notes also offering a status update on software’s server counterpart and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.”—AppleInsider
“Apple Netbook/Tablet to come with ARM, not Intel chip?: I had a long talk with Bob Morris, director of platform enablement for ARM’s mobile processor group. While he wasn’t able to mention Apple specifically, he did go into many reasons why a company like Apple would choose the ARM architecture over Intel.”—9to5 Mac
“DisplayPort and HDCP in your Mac: What you need to know: Steve Jobs told us during the unibody Macbook keynote that Apple will integrate DisplayPort in all Mac hardware down the road, but he forgot to mention out that HDCP is part of the deal. Developed by Intel, HDCP stands for “High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection” and is generally viewed as the movie industry’s insurance policy against mass piracy of HD movies on Blu-ray media. Blu-ray playback requires a chain of HDCP-equipped devices, including an HDCP graphics card and HDCP monitor. But since we know that Apple will not adopt Blu-ray, why would Apple need HDCP? Some believe Hollywood is forcing Apple to integrate HDCP into iTunes content.”—TG Daily
“Stephen Fry blasts Vista, Sony Vaio in Twitter attack: Mac enthusiast blasts Microsoft, Sony in Twitter running commentary”—Macworld UK
“Wal-Mart iPhone rumors swirl, multiply: Bloomberg reports that Wal-Mart store employees have confirmed that the retail giant will soon begin selling two iPhone models. Specifically, workers in the cellphone departments of five California stores said Apple handsets would be available by the end of the month.”—Insanely Great Mac
“Massive crowd marks grand opening of Apple Store Rosenstrasse (Munich, Germany): The first Apple Store in Germany opened today, December 6, 2008 at 10am local time and was greeted by a massive crowd.”—MacDailyNews
“FCC will rework cell-tower rule: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will revise a proposed rule mandating backup power for cellular networks after it was rejected by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.”—Macworld
“Intel hopes to bring free energy to mobile devices: Intel on Friday said it is researching technology to harvest free energy from the environment, which could lead to devices such as mobile phones running for indefinite periods without recharging.”—IDG News Service
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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