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Triumph of HTML5

November 2, 2010 Apple Inc.

Over the past 3 years Apple Inc. has taken the heat on pushing the adoption of the W3C standard, HTML5, for all web based development. They have even been taken to court for not allowing competitor’s technology (Flash) on their platform (iOS). Recently to avoid any more blame for flaws in these 3rd party technologies, [...]

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Microsoft’s Ballmer considers using WebKit within IE

November 10, 2008 Opinion

Recently during a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was “interesting” and added “we may look at that.” I hope this is true, but one must always take anything Ballmer says with a grain of salt. He often [...]

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Advertising Tactics

October 21, 2008 Opinion

Apparently Apple and Microsoft have took on the tactics that Coca Cola vs. Pepsi, and McDonald’s vs. Burger King used back in the 80′s. To be fair the first shot over the bow with their “Get a Mac” TVCs. Microsoft this year decided to spend USD300 millions on an advertising campaign to savage the poor [...]

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The Nintendo Phenomenon

July 14, 2007 Opinion

Unless you live in one of the undeveloped countries you will no doubt hear of the famous Nintendo trio: “Nintendo Wii“, “Nintendo DS” and “Nintendo Game Boy“. When the Nintendo Game Boy came out in 1989 it easily became the most successful handheld game console. It appealed to both kids and adult alike. The latter [...]

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Mac vs. PC cost analysis: How does it all add up?

June 9, 2007 Advice

Being a long time Mac user (23 years) and Macintosh software developer (10 years), I can vouch for most of Scott’s comments and findings. One thing that many people forget when they compare the cost and speed of a computer is the whole package of what you get when you purchase a computer. What do [...]

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New iPhone Ads: what Mac ads should be

June 5, 2007 Opinion

For the past 23 years the Mac OS had shined against most operating systems, particularly Microsoft Windows OS. Although Apple, particularly Steve Jobs, had always had the believes that the product will speaks for itself. Where as, Microsoft had a powerful market machine and able to successfully sell an obvious inferior product. So hopefully these [...]

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Business Secrecy

May 30, 2007 Opinion

Many people complains that Apple Inc. is not clear about their directions and secretive about their product announcements and release dates. An example being the recent events that had transpired with Apple’s iPhone. Apple announced and demonstrated the iPhone off at MacWorld San Francisco 2007 show in January. They then inform the public of a [...]

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‘IE8 compatible’ – the cure for web standards headache?

May 2, 2007 Opinion

Microsoft is reported to be seeking public opinions on IE8′s future web Standards (W3C) compatibility. I think it is a good thing that Microsoft is finally admitting the fact that all previous versions of IE are not web Standards (W3C) compliant. Note that IE7 is on the road to the right direction, but it is [...]

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Five critical reasons to update Windows today

April 12, 2007 Opinion

Or is that just another reason for our Windows comrade to give up and look for alternative OS? read more | digg story

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Potential Lost

January 5, 2007 Advice

According the to an analysis by a reporter at Washington Post over 77.8% or 284 days in 2006 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) users on the Microsoft Windows OS platform was vulnerable to malware and exploits, which were designed to steal personal data off users’ computers. In comparison FireFox browser was only vulnerable for 9 [...]

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Warning: Microsoft Word Flaw

December 5, 2006 Advice

To all Mac users who are using Microsoft Word that came with Microsoft Office v.X and Microsoft Office 2004. A “zero-day vulnerability” had been found by the security advisories in all versions of Microsoft Office v.X and Microsoft Office 2004. Microsoft themselves had also issued a Security Advisory for this vulnerability. The current solution is [...]

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