Archive for September, 2006

Wozniak, Apple alums buy semiconductor company for $260M

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

From Yahoo!
Finance:

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
September 27, 2006

A startup formed by Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and two other Apple veterans bought a Newport Beach semiconductor company for $260 million.

Wozniak, former Apple chairman and CEO, and former COO Gil Amelio and CTO Ellen Hancock formed Acquicor Technolcogy Inc. and their first acquisition was the [...]

Freescale Sold

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

I can’t say how this relates to Apple jumping ship and switching to Intel processors, but anyway: Remember that company, Freescale, which was spun off from Motorola Inc. in 2004?

THAT Motorola, that used to make the hearts of our Macs?

Well, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has just agreed to be bought for $17.6 billion, or $40 a [...]

iWoz: Co-founder tells his side of Apple story | In Depth | Reuters.com

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Co-founder tells his side of Apple story
Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:39am ET
By Eddie EvansNEW YORK (Reuters)

There was excited chatter as the revolutionaries met in a nondescript garage in Menlo Park, California, but in the beginning few of them really knew how they would change the world.And yet within a year of that first meeting of [...]

DHCP and Windows XP

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

DHCP and Windows XP
Setting up TCP/IP

Begin by opening the Windows XP Control Panel. Click the Start button, then select Control Panel.
Click on the link labelled Network Connections to see a list of your network connections.
Double-click on the icon labelled Local Area Connection to configure your network connection. (Note: If you do not see this icon, [...]

iPod Killer: Microsoft Zune? ROTFLPMP!

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

OK - so Microsoft releases it’s ace-in-the-hole, the new iPod killer, handheld music device called the ZUNE. Now, I’ll pass on the fact that “Zoune”, in French, is slang for female genitalia. Right from the start we’ve got some bad marketing research…

The Motley Fool has a brief article about it that you can read HERE, [...]

AnandTech: Apple’s Mac Pro - Upgrading CPUs, Memory & Running XP

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Weeks have passed since Apple’s announcement of the Mac Pro, and while we wanted to conclude our look at the Mac Pro much earlier, like many Mac Pro users we ran into some serious performance issues under Windows XP.

With the Mac Pro performance issues resolved and some more time with the system under our belts, [...]