Klaus' Korner

Sometimes I really wonder what drives IT experts to force their way onto users. Case in point, the bias by some IT departments to force all its users to use only PC or Macs, instead allowing both, given the user a choice of their preference. Long are the days gone that both can’t live in harmony and that support two different user communities cost too much. It has been proven…

Apple News: Patent Trolls Hit Apple With Lawsuit Over iTunes, iCloud, More A firm named Elia Data has filed a lawsuit in every patent troll’s favorite venue, Federal Court in the Eastern District in Texas, against Apple alleging that the company’s iTunes, iCloud, the App Store, OS X Server, and Remote Desktop all infringe on a patent it holds. Or at least a patent it purchased, just for an occasion…

Apple News: Apple cuts MacBook Pro, Air prices as much as 15 percent Apple today dropped prices of its Retina-equipped 13-inch MacBook Pro by as much as $300, and lowered the price of its top-end MacBook Air by $100. Some models of the company’s laptop line also received processor speed increases, with the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina now sporting a 2.6GHz Intel Core i5. The two stock 15-inch MacBook…

Apple News: Burglary at Microsoft research campus, only iPads taken; No Microsoft products reported stolen “A report popped up yesterday that Microsoft communicated to police earlier this week that there had been a burglary in one of the buildings on its campus in Mountain View, California,” Cody Lee reports for iDownload Blog. “The thief, or thieves, broke into 3 offices in Building 5 on the campus between December 19 and…

Apple News: Apple at the crossroads A doomsday analysis sees Apple, fat on margins, overtaken by a pack of hungrier rivals. Apple investors aren’t going to like it, but it behooves them to consider “Can a Leopard Change its Spots,” Paul Sagawa’s critical analysis of the company’s competitive position vis a vis Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Read full story => CNN Money Technology News: 25 fun things to do with…