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Laser guided robot powered by Mac Mini |
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
 Scientist from Georgia Tech & Emory University have designed and developed a five and a half foot tall robot that will play fetch with you. It's a little more complicated, but that is the basic idea. Best part is they designed their robot around a Mac.
The robot, named EL-E is programmed to follow a laser. When the laser points at a the same object for a few seconds, EL-E will beep to confirm it has the target "locked". It will then scoot over and pick up the object, then come back and find a person's face before giving it to them.
EL-E uses mulitple sensors, cameras and lasers, and a single Mac Mini. Some people complained about the fact that they used a Mac Mini, but a) these people probably never coded on a Mac and b) the didn't build the robot. Look for something like this in the future to appear in hospitals to help move patients around the hospital, and help patients throughout the day that would have a hard time retrieving objects.
I just want one for when i lose the remote.
-from Daily Tech-
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Norton Dual Protection for Mac |
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
 Symantec announced their new Mac product, Norton Dual Protection for Mac. It is a basically a combo package of Norton AntiVirus 11 for the Mac and Norton AntiVirus 2008 for Windows combined together.
Symantec in the past has dropped lots of it support for the Mac when it moved to OS X, and it evident now with this product. When looked at as a whole it looks good, but when you read further you see that Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac finally is gettin vulbnerability protection, but still lacks intrusion protection. Intrusion protection is only available on the Windows side.
While there have been no viruses in the wild for the Mac, Symantec's release of the Dual Protection is welcomed, but the short comings of their commitment to the Mac community is not the silver lining I was hoping for.
Symantec Dual Protection Website
What is Intrusion Detection/Protection?
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Sun to sneak into iPhone party? |
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
 Sun is dedicated to getting a version of Java onto the iPhone, but I'm not seeing it. Sun is getting ready a version of java called Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based off the Java Micro Edition (ME) for the iPhone. The only problem is the creator of the iPhone, Apple. Apple didn't invite Sun onto the iPhone to begin with and unless there is an under the table deal Sun probably won't get in via the backdoor either (Apple's rules for apps say you any one app can't call on another's).
The question really is what is Apple getting out of not allowing Java on the iPhone? It wasn't to long ago that Apple pledged support to the Java developers, but now is Apple shunning these same people. Does Apple want to see Sun hurt, or are they holding off to get something out of Sun that will help them in another industry (Server, enterprise?) Maybe this is all for nothing, we have another iPhone date to wait for to find out, iPhone v2.0. When that comes out we'll see what is what with Sun & Apple.
Sun's push for the iPhone
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Nikkei rewords MacBook Air review |
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 |
 Nikkei Electronics is the company that did the original MacBook Air breakdown and cited it as 'wasteful'. Their America PR side of the company has recently released a "we didn't mean what we said" article.
When we said 'wasteful' we meant to say 'unexpected'.
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 |
 Mac software site MacZot.com is moving to a 6-day publication starting this week. MacZot.com is an independent software distribution site, offering one day discounts on different programs daily. The sale last for only one day, but the savings can be huge. I've bought a few programs off them and have been happy with the results ( I love saving money ).
MacZot is doing this to give people a little bit more time with a program. They will no longer be publishing a Sunday email, rather they will have a Sunday/Monday MacZot deal with the notice going out on Monday. So if you don't look at it on Sunday, you still have all day Monday to look at it. Or you can download it on Sunday and play with it for two days befor you buy it.
If you don't already get the MacZot daily email, it's worthing going to their site. MacZot emails gives you some insight into what programs are available and helps independent developers make a living.
Don't forget to register for the NextZot
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
 Fortune 500's March 18th issue will have the most admired companies list for 2008, ranking #1 this year will be Apple, Inc. Congratulations Apple! Last year they came in at number 7, and the year before they didn't even get on the top 20.
Interesting side note, the March 18th issue will have the cover story, 'What's wrong with Steve Jobs?'. No info about what the story is about, but a little bit ironic headline for having Apple rated number 1 for reputation.
Fortune 500 Most Admired List 2008
Apple's Score Breakdown
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1,820,000 reasons to switch |
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
 When Auto Warehousing Company (AWC) planned to move from a Windows shop to a Mac shop everyone was surprised. AWC is the largest auto processing company in North America, with over 20 sites across the US and Canada. AWC was threatened and harrassed by Microsoft in 2006 about alleged illegal copies on their comptuers. It turned out AWC was all legit though, but that could have been the beginning of the defection.
While the 2006 case isn't sited as the main reason for switching, it is considered a bonus. The real reason why the switch is being pushed is because of the 1.82 million dollars it will save over three years. Yes, that's right, 1.83 million dollars saved in three years. The reason is Microsoft required a five site license for each PC in their workshop. The cost to replae all the machines with Macs? Only $355,000. License included.
The projec it on going and slated for completion in 2010. Yet another Mac Shop. Who says the Mac can't do enterprise?
AWC revisited
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Equatorial Guinea loves the iPhone |
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 Unlocked iPhones isn't something new, but when researchers at the NetApplications took a look to see what countries were using iPhones, the results were unexpected. Yes, there are unlocked iPhones all over the world. But in particular, there are alot in Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea ist the 3rd largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a president who is reported to be in constant contact with God.
This small Central African country's iPhone web browser usage is 2.21%. That means for every 100 people getting online in the country, 2 of them are doing it with an iPhone (rounding down of course). In a country of 551,000 people with only 9000 telephone land lines and 28000 mobile phone users, it is easy to see how a handful or two of iPhones can get such a large market share. But, if you are ever looking to stump someone in a impromptu trivia question, here is you ace in the whole. What country has the highest percentage of web hits on an iPhone compared to any other browser?
iPhones across the world.
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