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Mojo-free Jobs delivers Macworld goods

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Macworld 2008 One more thing: nothing
Is Steve Jobs losing his mojo? Almost speechless by the end of his Macworld keynote, the Apple chief executive's "to-do-list" left little by way of the surprises or thrills legions of Jobs-loving fanboys have come to expect. Especially as the two most eagerly awaited announcements there were pretty much public knowledge before …
15 Jan 23:29

AOL plays nice, pays developers

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Hard lesson
Remember AOL and the "walled garden"? Today, when you meet what used to be the world's number one, and rather standoffish, consumer internet service provider they are talking about working with others and not re-inventing the wheel. In early 2008, AOL will focus on the company's recent commitments to support Google's OpenSocial …
24 Dec 00:02

Jobs chucks Leopard titbits to Apple masses

WWDC MacOS X 10.5 feature set fleshed out
Steve Jobs opened Apple's annual developer conference by going back in time one year - in more ways than one. As well as harking back to the announcement of his company's ground-breaking relationship with Intel and taking trademark swiped at Microsoft, the Apple CEO talked up features in Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, mostly …
12 Jun 05:54

Jobs: one more thing... a browser war

WWDC Safari comes to Windows
Steve Jobs has re-kindled the browser wars - only this time Firefox is in the firing line, as well as Microsoft. Apple's CEO today opened his company's developer conference in San Francisco, where he outlined an ambitious target to take over Firefox's 15 per cent market share. How? By releasing a Windows version of Apple's less- …
12 Jun 03:42