Digital Trends Week In Review 10/26/07 (DesignTechnica) Here are the top news stories and articles featured on Digital Trends for the week of October 26th....more...Review: Apple's New Operating System (Technology Review) MacOS 10.5 offers easy file recovery, effective parental controls, and a host of clever, smaller features....more... Apple's Leopard Is Spot-On (TechNewsWorld.com) When Steve Jobs unleashes Mac OS X Leopard on Friday, Mac fans and others considering an Apple computer for the first time will have questions. Is the new Leopard operating system worth the $129 upgrade price? Is it the reason to splurge for a new Mac? Long before Leopard pounced onto the scene, I rated OS X superior to Windows for most consumers....more... HP ends local assembly in Saudi (ITP.net) HP will no longer assemble desktop PCs at its plant in Saudi Arabia from the end of December following a review of its supply chain arrangements in the Middle East. The move means desk-based products will now be supplied into the region from Eastern Europe and the Far East using HP's standard distribution set-up....more... Oakland County, Michigan Wins 2007 Government Computer News Award Using Polycom Video Systems for Judicial Arraignment (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Polycom, Inc. , the world's leading provider of unified collaborative solutions, today announced that Oakland County was a recipient of the 2007 GCN Awards by Government Computer News for its innovative and secure Web-based video arraignment system using Polycom video solutions....more... More Goodies in Apple?s New Operating System (New York Times) David Pogue notes some useful little tweaks to Apple?s latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, that never get any press....more... Oakland County, Michigan Wins 2007 Government Computer News Award Using Polycom Video Systems for Judicial Arraignment (The San Francisco Examiner) Oct 24, 2007 1:30 AM (9 hrs ago) From Polycom, Inc., Distributed by Press Release...more... PlumChoice Receives "Editor's Choice Award" From Laptop Magazine (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) PlumChoice, the nation's leader in remote PC services, today announced it received the Editor's Choice Award from Laptop Magazine as part of the publication's 2007 hands-on review of online technical support services. The Laptop coverage represents the first side-by-side review exclusively of online support providers by a national industry publication. The full review is available at ......more... Mac OS X Leopard: first impressions (MacNN) Both Electronista and MacNN received our copies of the latest version of Mac OS X yesterday and are putting it through its paces in advance of the official release at 6PM tonight. Since then, we've been using the OS as part of our daily workflows and are ready to hand out our first takes on the new functionality and performance of the software for... ...more... |