‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Oct. 13
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 13, 2008 at 4:00pm
“Why a new $800 Apple laptop had better be pretty: There is something vaguely timber-shivering about every new Apple announcement. Especially for those Isaac Newtons whose head didn’t just absorb the apple’s bump, but the whole fruit, core and all.”—CNET
“Steve Ballmer: Microsoft’s ‘Head Coach’: ‘We do our job right—not just Microsoft, we and our partners. I mean, because in some senses, the thing that really competes are Windows PCs against Macs’. ”—PC Magazine
“Apple empowers Malaysian music production: Malaysia’s International College of Music (ICOM) said its use of a mobile computing solution, powered by Apple, has given its students significant creative and technical freedom.”—Computerworld
“Making it to Apple’s App Store by staying out of court: Easily, the place to be for iPhone apps is Apple’s App Store. But some VoIP software providers are learning that it helps to offer apps that don’t require jailbreaking. and which won’t land them in the halls of justice.”—BetaNews
“Apple: The cheaper alternative? I can’t believe what I’m reading. All across the Web, reporters are saying that at Apple’s press event next week, the company will unveil an $800 Mac to appeal to those looking to spend less on an Apple computer.” [“Now, I’m a firm believer that Apple should start lowering its prices to appeal to more consumers and take the fight to HP and Dell, but if Apple’s plan next week is to offer cheaper Macs, I can’t help but wonder if this is Apple’s new strategy going forward. I think it is.”]—CNET
“Can Apple’s New MacBook Save The World?: In one of the slicker product placement tricks of all time, an Apple PowerBook helped save the world from alien invaders in the 1996 movie Independence Day.”—Forbes
“Mobile gaming firms eye Nokia, Apple boost in 2009: Mobile gaming companies say they will book few new sales from Nokia’s N-Gage phones or Apple’s iPhone, but are betting on a market boost next year as more phones of these kinds are taken up by consumers.” [“What gaming industry executives hoped for was a similar takeup, as with the App store on iPhone, which gave users easy access to buy new games or other software. While Apple has talked about a total of 10 million phones on the market, Nokia’s leading position in cellphones gave it the potential to reach an audience at least 10-times larger.”]—Reuters
“Apple iPhone 3G still not on BSNL: Market sources are saying that Apple has declined to get into a deal with BSNL for their Apple iPhone mobile phone.”—TechWhack
“Applications Apple Has Removed from the AppStore”—iPhone Atlas
“iPhones go to front of the class at Texas university: Apple devices at heart of Abilene Christian mobile learning project”—Network World
“Fighting over a fruit: There is a certain irony in Apple Inc.’s (formerly Apple Computer Inc.) harassment of a B.C. computer college over the use of the piece of the fruit for its corporate logo. Apple Inc. is the same company that was locked in litigation for three decades with Apple Corps, the music company founded in 1968 by The Beatles.”—The Globe and Mail
“BBC iPlayer and Apple iPhone: Fight! So the BBC is on a mission to make the iPlayer available on more portable devices, as long as they support Windows Media-protected content that is. Which means no iPlayer content on your iPhone. Or does it?”—ITWire
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 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.
