“We also look at it as a waste of money because the schools didn’t even know they were getting the equipment, schools didn’t know how to use the machines and weren’t prepared to implement them into the curriculum,” Sullivan said.
The best new feature in Apple’s new MacBook Pro is the 8-hour, ultra-durable battery that Apple says it custom-designed. But is it really the advanced powerplant it claims to be?
Yep — it looks just like its little brothers only with an 8 hour battery and 17-inch non-glare display option!
animusCollards writes “Slate ponders a post-Steve Jobs Apple, including possible successors, and the future is… boring. ‘..it’s certainly true that Jobs’ style is central to the company’s brand and the fierce connection it forges with its customers. His product announcements prompt hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free press coverage and whip up greater and more loyal fans, generating ever-greater interest in the company. … At some point, all that will end. Jobs will eventually leave the company. There are no obvious plans for succession; in addition to Schiller, observers finger Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, and Scott Forstall, who helped develop Mac OS X and the iPhone’s software, as contenders for the job. But Tuesday’s keynote illustrated how difficult it will be for any of those guys to replace Jobs.'”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
With MacWorld Expo here, you should expect that Microsoft officials are out talking up the idea of the “Apple tax” again.
To help protect its genes, a cell is highly selective about what it allows to move in and out of its nucleus. Yet that choosiness is regulated by just a thin barrier, perforated with tiny transport machines called nuclear pore complexes: protein-coated holes surrounded by flimsy, unfolded protein strands.
We’re six days into the new year, and that means everybody is abandoning ship on 2008 and looking forward to all the wonderful things 2009 has in store for us. The good folks at JoBlo for instance, have used their time machine to jump forward to the end of the year and report back on what the best movies of 2009 will be.
People will buy anything with an Apple logo. In fact, we’ve proposed a few new markets Apple should look into before calling all the big MacWorld announcements off…
From iPhone to iMac, we look back over the innovations Apple has announced at previous Macworlds.
We’re posting these new StarCraft II screens with much reservation. After all, someone out there woke up this morning with no intention to die. But, having seen these new depictions of war-waging micro machines, this someone has triggered an inescapable obsession….
