Apple's OSX cutting into Windows' dominance
Apple is celebrating a new milestone after a research company reported that Macs have now taken an 8% market share in computing for the first time.
Net Applications conducted a survey on 40,000 sites, and came to the conclusion that 8.2% of computers accessing the web were using Apple's OSX – although this does of course fail to take into consideration computers that do not access the web.
September is a traditionally strong month for Apple – who actively targets US students going back to college – but the gains, which have come against Microsoft Windows PCs will encourage the Cupertino-based company.
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Net Applications say that 90.3% of people are still using Windows machines – which is a drop of nearly half a per cent on August figures.
The rise of Linux powered netbooks and, of course, Macs is believed to have accounted for the shift.
Over the past two years, computers using Mac OSX have risen by 3%.
By Patrick Goss
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http://www.techradar.com/news/software/macs-now-have-8-of-pc-market-472692
Ever since the first product from this family arrived in stores, Corsair's Voyager drives have been quite renowned for providing fairly large storage capacities in a very tough and shock-resilient body. And that is also the case with the company's latest product, which packs no less than an amazing 64 GB of flash memory and can be purchased at a surprisingly low price point.
And if you were wondering what you could ever do with a flash drive providing such a huge amount of storage space, consider the following figures: 19,840 6-megapixel digital photos, 26 hours and 40 minutes of MPEG-2 videos at 30 fps and 5 Mbps or up to 304 hours of MPEG-4 videos at 15 fps and 284 Kbps, or an amazing 16,000 songs in MP3, 128 Kbps format.
In addition, Corsair 64GB USB Flash Voyager drives are bootable, which means users can actually store full versions of operating systems and applications in order to quickly “re-create” the necessary software environments to troubleshoot system problems. Practically, since Corsair's flash drivers typically provide quite a high level of reliability, you won't even need a HDD anymore, so you can go ahead and purchase that netbook you've been dreaming about without having to pay a premium for additional storage.
"Corsair is always developing new and exciting flash products, and the 64GB USB Flash Voyager is no exception," said John Beekley, Vice President of Applications at Corsair, when talking about the company's latest product. "With more storage space than most laptops, we can offer a full suite of features – whether it be backing up data, building a portable media library, or simply transporting huge amounts of data," he added.
The official pricing for this thing is of around 250 US dollars, but word on the street (well, word on the Internet) is that you'll actually be able to find it for under 200 bucks, which is actually a very good deal.
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Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as president of products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin.
The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Dr. Carl Victor Page, Larry's love of computers began at age six. While following in his father's footsteps in academics, he became an honors graduate from the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering. During his time in Ann Arbor, Larry built an inkjet printer out of Lego™ bricks.
While in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry met Sergey Brin, and together they developed and ran Google, which began operating in 1998. Larry went on leave from Stanford after earning his master's degree.
In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
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http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
