The Nillabyte Perspective: Technology

Today, Apple delivered unsurprising news that Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple's Board of Directors.

“Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately,

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The great open source browser, Firefox, that I mentioned yesterday just crossed a rather large milestone: 1 billion downloads! Firefox has taken the browser world by storm since it's introduction in 2004. Despite it's humble beginnings, Firefox now controls about 30% of the browser market and has ...

What is open source? What does it mean?

Open source means that everything about the program is free. There is no cost to install or use it, and you can even acquire the source code and modify it if you like. The only condition is that you share any code modifications so that they can ...

As reported by CNET, Microsoft will be opening two retail stores; one in Scottsdale, AZ and another in Mission Viejo, CA. Both are expected to open later this fall.

The plan is to directly compete with Apple's successful retail stores.

The Orange County, Calif., store is in a mall that

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Several months ago, I had a problem. I have an old Mac that I still use and a dual-booting Windows/Linux PC at home, but only one desk. Quite often I work with both machines at once, and the worst part of the whole ordeal is switching keyboards and mice every time I want to use a different machine. ...

Intuit pulled a move from Microsoft's playbook and delayed a major project, not for the first time. In 2008, Intuit announced that Quicken Financial Life for Mac would be released later in that same year. It never did though. Then at Macworld 2009, Intuit demoed the new software and said it would ...

Google has announced that the company has plans to produce an operating system to compete with Microsoft's Windows. Based on Google's Chrome web browser, Chrome OS is going to be designed for x86 and ARM architectures—in other words, most computers.

From Google:

Speed, simplicity

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Yesterday, June 8th, Apple introduced a bettered line of Mac notebooks. A welcome improvement is a new battery technology which allows for 7 hours of use on a single charge. The advanced battery can be charged up to 1,000 times, meaning the average notebook user will get nearly 5 years of use out ...

On October 14, 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs euthanized FireWire, the I/O interface superior to USB 2.0 (read the obituary here for greater detail).

Thanks to a passionate Firewire user base voicing a collective feeling of vexation and neglect, Apple resuscitated the more advanced I/O interface. ...

Last year, when it was revealed that Microsoft was to begin a multimillion dollar ad campaign to squish Apple, I figured it would be an offensive that would be well managed. After all, doesn't throwing money at a problem always fix it?

The first ad, featuring Jerry Seinfeld and a booty-shaking ...