I'VE FOUND A lot of stories about people using a Mac that have been "marginalized". The stories are are like this one:
Russ Brown
The Ontario Government only supports Windows for on-line business registration and renewal: [Register/Renew Online]. I filed a complaint
16.1.04
15.1.04
Only for people that read Il Sole 24Ore
TODAY, IF YOU like to read Italian newspapers, you can find Il Sole 24Ore and the weekly technology section @lfa. Here I am. Writing about Apple, Sony and much more...
Tra nove giorni il Macintosh compie vent'anni ma Steve Jobs, fondatore e Ceo di Apple, non ha tempo per le autocelebrazioni. Marted� della settima scorsa, quella dell'annuale MacWorld di San Francisco, � stata una delle pi� intense nella storia dell'azienda di Cupertino...
Tra nove giorni il Macintosh compie vent'anni ma Steve Jobs, fondatore e Ceo di Apple, non ha tempo per le autocelebrazioni. Marted� della settima scorsa, quella dell'annuale MacWorld di San Francisco, � stata una delle pi� intense nella storia dell'azienda di Cupertino...
11.1.04
Back in Milan
HERE I AM, back in the Italian main city for business. After a long flight from San Francisco to Paris and then to Milan, all with AirFrance, I'm back to my desk. Jet lag is hard, but I have to work... I see on the internet that the perspective on MacWorld is changing. The very first hours after Steve Jobs keynote, press was looking for a big news. But there wasn't any.
After one day the agreement with Carly Fiorina, Ceo of HP, arrived as a less important news but it has grown in the next hours. Today, instead of new software, brand new, cheap 64-bit servers and other small things like the iPod mini, the big news is that of the franchising with HP.
So, what about my story for the weekly section devote to High-Tech of my newspaper? What is the headline?Any suggestion? I'm still thinkin' about it. And I have to write tomorrow...
After one day the agreement with Carly Fiorina, Ceo of HP, arrived as a less important news but it has grown in the next hours. Today, instead of new software, brand new, cheap 64-bit servers and other small things like the iPod mini, the big news is that of the franchising with HP.
So, what about my story for the weekly section devote to High-Tech of my newspaper? What is the headline?Any suggestion? I'm still thinkin' about it. And I have to write tomorrow...
9.1.04
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
(c) Apple computer, Inc
8.1.04
News from Las Vegas
THIS IS INCREDIBLE: Hp has announced an agreement with Apple Computer to release from summer an Hp version of iPod (the big one, not the mini). It will use the Apple iPod Os (basically, when switched on it will show an Apple logo) and the same interface. Only made by Hp. And Hp will put iTunes application on every new Pc produced.
The idea for Apple is to expand his presence in digital music. May be they think that iTunes Music Store is a serious business by itself, and not only to sell more iPod...
The idea for Apple is to expand his presence in digital music. May be they think that iTunes Music Store is a serious business by itself, and not only to sell more iPod...
Virtual press room
BUT THERE IS another company, that is not Microsoft, that is trying to put Apple in a corner. When I was, a month ago, in Tokyo, I visited the Apple Store at Ginza. Ginza is the hi-level shopping district of the Japanese most famous and glamouros city, and Apple is the only technology company that decided to open a retail in this part of the city, instead of the technology district of Akihabara.
But also Sony Computer is in Ginza, and they would like to stop the fast-growing of the iPod. Using an old technology, Minidisc, with a new version of the cartridge, that can hold 1 Gb of data instead of 160 Mb. that means 7.55 hours instead of 80 minutes (using Atrac codec). The fight is open...
But also Sony Computer is in Ginza, and they would like to stop the fast-growing of the iPod. Using an old technology, Minidisc, with a new version of the cartridge, that can hold 1 Gb of data instead of 160 Mb. that means 7.55 hours instead of 80 minutes (using Atrac codec). The fight is open...
Press Room at Moscone Center
THIS IS DAY three of MacWorld 2004. The place is almost empty. A French journalist, that I met many time in various Mac events, told me that he thinks this is the last MacWorld.
Probably it is not true (on the reverse side of the badge Idg writes: "Save the dates: July 12-15 2004 Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Boston MA --- January 10-14 2005, The Moscone Center, San Francisco CA", so what do you think?)
A lot of people, here and on the Internet, have a lot of concerns about the price of the new iPod Mini. I do not agree (anyway the Italian price will be of course higher!). I would like to find one of the new "internal hears" heandsets. Mainly because mine are definitely gone, but I would like to change kind, because I do not feel confortable with other devices. I will try to see at CompUsa later.
In front of me is sitting a Cnet journalist. She is one of the few taht use a (small) Ibm ThinkPad... Poor jerk.
Probably it is not true (on the reverse side of the badge Idg writes: "Save the dates: July 12-15 2004 Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Boston MA --- January 10-14 2005, The Moscone Center, San Francisco CA", so what do you think?)
A lot of people, here and on the Internet, have a lot of concerns about the price of the new iPod Mini. I do not agree (anyway the Italian price will be of course higher!). I would like to find one of the new "internal hears" heandsets. Mainly because mine are definitely gone, but I would like to change kind, because I do not feel confortable with other devices. I will try to see at CompUsa later.
In front of me is sitting a Cnet journalist. She is one of the few taht use a (small) Ibm ThinkPad... Poor jerk.
7.1.04
6.1.04
It was not so bad...
JOURNALISTS HERE AT Moscone Center, in San Francisco, are typing like hells. The keynote give them enought to have three or four good stories. Mac turned 20. A brand new iPod (HEY IT IS TRUE, only the body is different). A new iApp for the rest of us (Garage Band). New iApp Suite ('04). New Xserve and Xserve Raid with G5 power. And a lot of proudness to be Mac users.
Sounds great! I mean: it rocks!
Sounds great! I mean: it rocks!
4.1.04
Humor...
QUESTION: WHAT DO you call the R&D department at Dell?
Answer: Apple Computer.
...and History
�On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce �Macintosh�, and you�ll see why 1984 won�t be like �1984�.
-Closing line from Apple�s famous �1984� commercial, which starred Anya Major, and which was directed by Ridley Scott.
Answer: Apple Computer.
...and History
�On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce �Macintosh�, and you�ll see why 1984 won�t be like �1984�.
-Closing line from Apple�s famous �1984� commercial, which starred Anya Major, and which was directed by Ridley Scott.
On the Air (Italians only)
DI CHE COSA si parla, quando si parla di sicurezza?
Il grande rischio: i "ladri" di accessi
di Antonio Dini
C'era una volta la Grande depressione, in America. E c'erano gli hobos, ex impiegati e agricoltori che avevano perso tutto, anche la casa. Moderni anti-eroi cantati da Woody Guthrie, il folk singer che ha fatto da maestro a Bob Dylan. Si aggiravano, gli hobos, in cerca di aiuto per le citt� e le campagne. Segnando con un gesso i muri delle case "amiche", dove potevano avere del cibo e forse riparo: un segno di solidariet� per i compagni di sventura.
Gli hobos postmoderni, invece, si aggirano nei labirinti delle citt� americane ed europee, da San Francisco a New York, da Londra a Milano. Segnano con un gesso i muri dei palazzi dove c'� il loro bene prezioso: connessioni ad Internet senza fili, gratuite e a larga banda.
Il resto potete leggerlo qui, oltre che in un mio posto precedente, visto che a quanto pare si sono decisi a mettere tutto online!
Per quanto riguarda lo stato degli enti locali, qui si legge:
Da quota tremila metri sino al livello del mare: le connessioni senza fili (Wi-Fi) prendono piede nei Comuni italiani. Sulle pendici dell'Etna, nella bassa padana, in Piemonte e in Toscana, al Nord come al Sud: i 6 mila Comuni pi� piccoli, quelli dove vivono meno di cinquemila persone, in totale quasi dieci milioni di italiani, stanno scoprendo la tecnologia che consente di offrire connettivit� a larga banda a computer fissi e palmari senza bisogno di cavi.
Lo speciale "Wireless Fidelity" lo trovate, invece, qui, con numerosi articoli tutti di alto livello! Soprattutto i miei...
Il grande rischio: i "ladri" di accessi
di Antonio Dini
C'era una volta la Grande depressione, in America. E c'erano gli hobos, ex impiegati e agricoltori che avevano perso tutto, anche la casa. Moderni anti-eroi cantati da Woody Guthrie, il folk singer che ha fatto da maestro a Bob Dylan. Si aggiravano, gli hobos, in cerca di aiuto per le citt� e le campagne. Segnando con un gesso i muri delle case "amiche", dove potevano avere del cibo e forse riparo: un segno di solidariet� per i compagni di sventura.
Gli hobos postmoderni, invece, si aggirano nei labirinti delle citt� americane ed europee, da San Francisco a New York, da Londra a Milano. Segnano con un gesso i muri dei palazzi dove c'� il loro bene prezioso: connessioni ad Internet senza fili, gratuite e a larga banda.
Il resto potete leggerlo qui, oltre che in un mio posto precedente, visto che a quanto pare si sono decisi a mettere tutto online!
Per quanto riguarda lo stato degli enti locali, qui si legge:
Da quota tremila metri sino al livello del mare: le connessioni senza fili (Wi-Fi) prendono piede nei Comuni italiani. Sulle pendici dell'Etna, nella bassa padana, in Piemonte e in Toscana, al Nord come al Sud: i 6 mila Comuni pi� piccoli, quelli dove vivono meno di cinquemila persone, in totale quasi dieci milioni di italiani, stanno scoprendo la tecnologia che consente di offrire connettivit� a larga banda a computer fissi e palmari senza bisogno di cavi.
Lo speciale "Wireless Fidelity" lo trovate, invece, qui, con numerosi articoli tutti di alto livello! Soprattutto i miei...
3.1.04
Go to SF? Be connected!
THIS IS A useful list of hotels in SF where you can find in-room Internet connection. Rates may vary a lot from one to another.
I will be in "W San Francisco", Third Street.
I will be in "W San Francisco", Third Street.
News about iPod
SEEMS LIKE THE iPod has a lot of chances to be renewed. People on Internet are trying to figure out new designs...
Cannot put online the image for copyright reason. But you can check it here by your own.
(PS: Happy 2004 to everybody)
But maybe the right one is this:
Cannot put online the image for copyright reason. But you can check it here by your own.
(PS: Happy 2004 to everybody)
But maybe the right one is this:
SF Expedition
I'M READY TO go to San Francisco. I will be there sunday at 01 pm, more or less (hopefully... don't say more!). MacWorld is coming...
In the mean time, I would like to put your attention to another expedition, this one is to Mars! Here I am, of course! On a Dvd full of names, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Great crew!
In the mean time, I would like to put your attention to another expedition, this one is to Mars! Here I am, of course! On a Dvd full of names, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Great crew!
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