‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Oct. 3
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 3, 2008 at 5:30pm
Microsoft’s new ads aim high, but fall flat: One way Microsoft can save a bundle of money is by killing its lame and inconsistent $300 million advertising campaign and go back to the drawing board. Its current campaign just isn’t working.”—MarketWatch
“Apple misses September deadline for iPhone notifications: Apple’s had issues meeting many of its self-imposed deadlines in the last couple years. Some of the delays, such as Leopard, have been big; others, like the iPhone SDK, somewhat smaller. As we watched the calendar tick over from the end of September to the beginning of October earlier this week, Apple missed yet another of its targets by not releasing its promised push notification system for the iPhone.”—Macworld
“Who Says You Can’t Find Great Games on the Mac?: Who says you can’t find great games on the Mac? Play 3D games across platforms and across the world – all in your browser, and only on InstantAction.”—Instant Action
“Chinese Skype Software Secretly Logs Political Chat Messages: A Chinese-language version of Skype scans users’ chat messages for keywords such as “democracy,” and sends a copy of the offending message to the company’s servers, according to a report released Thursday by a Canadian online human rights group.”—Wired
“Apple Denies Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report: “It Is Not True: “Citizen journalism” apparently just failed its first significant test. A CNN iReport poster reported this morning that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the ER after a severe heart attack (story and screenshot below). Fortunately, it appears the story was false. We contacted an Apple spokeswoman, who categorically denied it. ”—Silicon Valley Insider
“Grading on a Curve in America: the VP Debates: America is torn between two identities. We like to think of ourselves as smart when laughing at the foolish behavior of others, but we also express disdain for the smug elite. We like to think of ourselves as fair and compassionate team players while also being rugged free market individualists. What exactly are we, apart from being wildly contradictory? The carefully prepared vice presidential debates highlighted and mirrored our nation’s identity. Was it flattering?”—Roughly Drafted
“The Fear: The NDA is dead, yes, and good riddance, but there remain serious problems with the way Apple is managing the App Store. It boggles my mind that there remain so many people who don’t see this”—Daring Fireball
“Is This the New MacBook?: Mac Soda commenter rui points out a promotional page on nVIDIA’s website that shows a modern looking laptop with the text “nVIDIA Optimizes the Notebook PC”, and asks the question, is this the new MacBook?”—MacSoda
“Unreal MacBook Mini is Just That: Unreal: This little MacBook Mini is just what many, many people have been hoping for (myself included).
Shame it’s not real.”—Cult of Mac
“Obama campaign publishes iPhone app: The US presidential campaign for Barack Obama has taken the unusual step of publishing its own iPhone application.”—MacNN
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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.
