Web search statistics show Bing stagnant, Google growing

Following a press release from ComScore indicating that Microsoft has approached 10% market share with Bing, more comprehensive search statistics indicate that Bing's growth and share of web search is being wildly overstated.

Prince McLean 16 years ago 65

Apple releases Safari 4.0.4 with security flaw patch

Apple Wednesday afternoon released an update to its Safari Web browser, addressing a vulnerability that could allow an image file to exploit Macs with older software.

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 39

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac claims speed superiority

Parallels Desktop 5.0 was released Wednesday, with its developer claiming the latest virtualization software runs 64-bit Windows 7 22 percent faster than its nearest competitor on a MacBook Pro.

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 65

VMware releases Fusion 3 for Mac with full Windows 7 support

VMware on Tuesday released its latest virtualization software, Fusion 3, offering Snow Leopard optimization and full support for Windows 7, including Aero.

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 68

Inside Apple's new Mac mini Server

While Appleinsider predicted the arrival of a new dual-drive, optical-free Mac mini, Apple managed keep secret its plans to introduce a new Mac mini server bundle up to its relatively subtle launch this week. Now the company faces the task of publicizing its availability as it works to enter a market it hasn't excelled at in the past.

Daniel Eran Dilger 16 years ago 176

Apple shuts down ZFS open source project

Apple's efforts to support the development of ZFS, an advanced file system originally created by Sun, were officially terminated today in a notice posted by MacOS Forge.

Daniel Eran Dilger 16 years ago 72

Kindle software coming to Mac; Google Chrome hits milestone

Amazon Kindle customers will have the ability to read their content on the Mac when the official application is launched in the future; and Google Chrome inches closer to release with its developer preview.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 30

Apple preparing Aperture X upgrade to 3.0 [u]

A new book available for preorder on Amazon.com implies that a new 3.0 version of Aperture, called Apple Aperture X, could be coming by May 2010.

Prince McLean and Neil Hughes 16 years ago 63

Apple's Boot Camp will not support Windows 7 on some 2006 Macs

In a memo to retail partners, Apple has announced that it will deliver support for Windows 7 in Mac OS X Snow Leopard's Boot Camp utility by the end of the year via a software update, but exclude support for some Macs sold in 2006.

Prince McLean 16 years ago 67

Sun, Oracle save Microsoft's Pink after Danger data disaster

Microsoft has announced the restoration of Sidekick users' contacts as the first milestone in recovering data it lost in the cloud computing disaster affecting its Danger subsidiary, while a new source explains why the restoration was possible without a backup and why it is taking so long.

Daniel Eran Dilger 16 years ago 53

FreeBSD adds support for Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch

Apple's Grand Central Dispatch technology, which debuted in Snow Leopard as a mechanism for optimizing parallelism across multiple cores and processors, has now been ported to FreeBSD.

Prince McLean 16 years ago 33

Apple's Safari gets prime placement in Windows browser ballot

Microsoft's Windows browser ballot in Europe presents its options in alphabetical order, putting Apple's Safari as the first choice for users to install.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 73

Apple announces In App Purchases for free App Store software

Apple has announced that developers who offer free App Store applications can now take advantage of in-app transactions — a feature that was previously allowed only for paid software.

Brian Garner 16 years ago 49

Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server: Apple's server strategy

Years before Mac OS X 10.0 was first released in 2001, Apple launched Mac OS X Server, targeting its newly acquired Unix-based operating system technology at the education and workgroup server market. Apple has struggled ever since to find a broad server strategy that works. The solution may be as obvious as the iPhone App Store.

Daniel Eran Dilger 16 years ago 66

Apple iMovie 8.0.5 update debuts new iFrame video format

Apple has created a new video format called iFrame for use by camcorders, allowing optimized import into iMovie for editing.

Prince McLean 16 years ago 56

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