A few technology related things that just happened are very important and require your attention. First of all, 1.5 million australian students have replaced their Outlook/Exchange with Gmail.
Techcrunch says:
The cost savings are substantial. The Outlook/Exchange platform involved a AU$33 million contract and took four years to go live, although it’s unclear why it took so [...]
Yesterday’s keynote by Steve Jobs was very exciting. Somehow Apple always manages to bring the new you think they will, but features are always better than expected, and this time was no exception.
I don’t think we should see the release of the iPhone 3G as simply a successor for the original iPhone. If you have [...]
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The new iPhone 3G is now visible on the US apple site, and, most important for us, on the dutch apple site.
Apple’s keynote by Steve Jobs is going on right now. There’s a lot of talk about the developer stuff for the iPhone, there’s a sneak peak into Snow Leopard (the next Leopard), [...]
Apple takes security seriously. With the online publication of the security guide for Leopard, the company answers concerned customers. Although the heart of the operating system is BSD unix, one of the most stable and secure flavors of the unix operating system, certain people are still concerned, and with all the developments concerning hacking and [...]
Although I have a unix background, I like the fact that Apple’s OSX is made in such a way you don’t have to know or care what goes under under the hood. Simplicity rules. But sometimes simple solutions get trapped in their own simplicity.
I work on a Macbook Pro. I have a 1TB Nas attached [...]
Apparently it is upgrade-time in operating system country: Windows 7 is announced and demoed at a conference in Caliornia by Steve and Bill. As Microsoft has a habit of doubling the required specs each time a new version of its operating system, I wonder what we need to run Windows 7, a supercomputer or mainframe [...]