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Managed Client: How to manage the Keychain menu in Workgroup Manager

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Apple Tries To Halt Release Of Steve Jobs Deposition In Lawsuit … What’s It Hiding?

Two closely watched cases in the music industry are about to go to trial involving a motley crew of characters: Eminem’s producers, Rob Zombie, Rick James (his estate at least) and Steve Jobs. Apple is claiming that a deposition of … Continue reading

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Cod Liver Oil: Like It Or Not, Apple’s Gatekeeper Makes Sense

Electronic Freedom Fighters and knee-jerk reactionaries: prepare your big drums because here comes the cause of the week. We learned about Gatekeeper, Apple’s app signing solution that ensures “rogue” apps can’t infect your computer, a few months ago when the … Continue reading

Apple wants Steve Jobs’ bio excluded from Samsung trial

If it gets its way, the jury will hear no talk of Apple waging thermonuclear war on Android FORTUNE – FOSS Patents‘ Florian Mueller has been reading through the motions Apple (AAPL) and Samsung filed in advance of their upcoming patent … Continue reading

Mothers Day: 9 out of 10 moms would prefer an iPad to flowers

But only 12% of their kids plan to buy them a gadget, and most will spend less than $50 Source: TechBargains.com FORTUNE — Think a phone call or a floral display is going to satisfy Mom this Mothers Day? Think … Continue reading

Lion Server: VPN service does not accept connections after update

Your VPN service may stop accepting PPTP or L2TP connections after you update Lion Server or after you update from an older version of Mac OS X Server. System log messages may report issues retrieving MPPE keys.

What does all this ‘bubble’ talk have to do with Apple?

Something may burst, but it’s not the company that’s making money hand over fist Photo: designbeep.com FORTUNE — It’s symptomatic of the delusion that characterizes much of the thinking in Silicon Valley these days that someone could read Chris Dixon’s … Continue reading

Who converts more PC users, Apple or its retail partners?

What Tim Cook didn’t say in last week’s earnings call Source: CIRP FORTUNE — When it reports on Mac sales in its retail stores, Apple (AAPL) likes to make the point — as Tim Cook did again last week — … Continue reading

Amazon throws its e-book weight around. Again.

More heavy-handed behavior from the book world’s 500-pound gorilla  Click to enlarge. Source: Amazon FORTUNE — Publishers who have had to deal with Amazon’s (AMZN) arrogant reps know first hand the contempt with which they hold folks in the business … Continue reading

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Australian Price Gouging Inquiry Targets Apple, Microsoft And Others

Getting a new laptop or buying a new license for an operating system is often cheaper in the U.S. than in most other countries. Europeans, for example, are used to paying a hefty premium for Apple products and the situation … Continue reading