Apple released the next, faster generation of MacBooks today. The new Books are available with a 2.0GHz or 2.16GHz processors (as opposed to the previous 1.86GHz and 2.0GHz) and come stocked with 1GB of RAM instead of 512MB. Hard drive size has also been increased from 60GB to 80GB with options for 120GB and 160GB [...]

“…Why is Sun joining the Mac porting project? If you look around at conferences and airport lounges, you will notice that more and more people are using Apple notebooks these days. Apple has a significant market share in the desktop space. We are supporting this port because of the interest and activity of the community [...]

If you could get rid of all your junk mail (we’re talking the paper stuff here) for five years, how much would you pay? Well, a Michigan company called 41Pounds.org is working an innovative business plan that bets you’ll pay $41. Their points: NO MORE JUNK MAIL. Save time by eliminating 80-95% of your daily [...]

Wired News just posted this article affirming what we’ve known about the overall value of the new intel macs.

From the Adobe blog and The Apple Blog: We are announcing Creative Suite 3 on March 27th. However, the software will not ship until later in Spring 2007.

In Jakob Nielsen’s annual intranet design roundup, he outlines some major trends and winning features of successful and usable intranets. Some new and interesting ones: 1. Photo of the day on the homepage (how about zingy illustration of the day? oh that would be so fun!) 2. Webcams (done!) 3. Managed news feeds, filtered by [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 14, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) will introduce a beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 software, the next release of the world standard in digital imaging, on Friday, December 15th. Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest [...]

Here’s an interesting story from Birmingham, England where the city government’s IT Dept rolled out linux desktops to their government offices: Birmingham City Council claims open-source success

Article here.