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THIS MORNING'S financial results from Apple show first-quarter revenues of $8.16bn and net profit of $2.1bn thanks, largely, to...
PALM have been getting loads of coverage for their imminent Pre iPhone beater. I've read many of the stories and...
AS PREDICTED by MacOldie yesterday, data roaming charges within the EU are to be capped from July 1. From...
INTERESTING article here on MacWorld by Michael Schneider (in turn reprinted from PC World). The piece charts his company's migration...
THIS MORNING'S BBC news item on the Ukrainian botnet reports that almost two million computers worldwide had been recruited by the criminals....
WE'RE INDEBTED to TechChrunch for news that the App Store will clock up one billion downloads sometime later today (April...
I'VE ALWAYS hated the locking of mobile phones to one carrier. Sure, in many countries, particularly the UK, locked phones...
by Paul W. Evans The piece on the TRS-80 (April 19) prompted me to recall the now-extinct dinosaur, the CPT...
Thirty years ago today MacOldie Corporation acquired its very first computer. The Tandy (Radio Shack) TRS80 had 8KB of RAM...
by Giorgos SimonidesThere is no end of advice out there for the switcher who wants to try a Mac in...
Regular readers will know that MacOldie is far too ancient to be turned on by computer games. He's made of...
Our Mac musings are now established in a virtual Mac desert, the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea....