Very sorry, but despite the promised article today for the “Timeline of an Icon” series… We won’t be posting any new articles today. The hope was that we would just auto-post one, but that never happened.
The daily mac news will also be offline today. It is christmas eve, have a great time with your family. Thanks for your support.
I am somewhat of a hardcore outdoorsman myself. Then again, I can really be a techie sometimes too. So whenever I can find a way to bridge this gap, I get pretty excited. My favorite outdoor brand happens to be The North Face. That being said, I am really excited today to announce an iPod friendly jacket made by The North Face.
What? Microsoft Office is forbidden? Those were the exact words today of a panel of U.S. Federal Appeals Court judges. Sometimes these stories almost seem too weird to be true, “somehow Microsoft will find a way out of it”, we often think to ourselves. But I don’t think that will be the case here, at least not initially. Office will surely come back in a year or so, once they have removed all of the patent violations, but we won’t see it in stores for the better part of 2010.
Let’s reflect. How many mobile devices do you own (i.e. iPods, iPhones, Smartphones, tablet computers, netbooks, wireless broadband devices, etc.)?
How many mobile devices did you own last year?
How many will you likely own next year?
For most of us, this number was small to non-exsistant when we thought about last year’s number, pretty high for this year, and probably higher for next year. The number of mobile devices on the market were just so few. We didn’t have iPhones yet, the mass production of internet-ready smartphones hadn’t been released yet, our iPods only played music (the lucky ones among us benefited from videos too), and our cell phone carriers used to only make phone calls and relay text messages. Now all that has changed. We have seen the introduction of the iPhone, numerous cell phone modems, iPods that surf the net, and even netbooks sold by our wireless carriers for only $99!
Yesterday we brought you the breaking story of the MacBook that was shot 3 times in Israel, and the sad owner’s story. For those of you that missed it, be sure to read it quick here, those of you that did read it, remember where you heard it first: The Mac Coach. Anyway, after receiving a lot of press about this event, The Daily News in Egypt has covered her story with an exclusive interview. The story is good, she explains what really happened and shows tons of angles of the damage done.
No, in fact it was far from bullet proof. But this is the interesting story of a female attorney who, while leaving her laptop with airport security, returned to find it shot to pieces. You will be glad to hear that it wasn’t an American airport.
