Apple can not reassert or deny that it hired a security expert , but the Macalope hopes it ’s genuine . Meanwhile , Microsoft ’s parents ostensibly never told the company that if you do n’t have anything nice to say ( or sell ) then you should n’t say ( or betray ) anything at all . And RIM ’s make out up with a grampus plan to save the BlackBerry . The only interrogation is who it ’s going to toss off .
Eat your vegetables!
Applequietly hired security expert David Ricethis week . Of course , the only way of life to hire someone who used to forge at the NSA are “ restfully ” or “ noisily killing everyone who might know . ” Quietly was probably a undecomposed choice on Apple ’s part .
This is a move the Macalope’shoped Apple would take for years . He’snever been impressedwith the company’ssometimes unserious approachto security .
Over at TidBITS this hebdomad , Rich hasa tremendous lookat Apple and Microsoft ’s position on security over the last 10 old age . Like the horny one , Mogull hopes Rice ’s hiring is a mansion that Apple ’s base faith on protection ( which the Macalope empathize ask special underclothes , animal forfeiture , and a monkey ) .
late moves by Apple , especially the hiring of spectacular security experts like David Rice ( the writer ofGeekonomics ) , and Window Snyder ( former head of security for Mozilla ) , combined with product updates , indicate that Apple may be quietly , yet significantly , improving their security measures capabilities .
While the Macalope require to see Apple protect its users , he does n’t bribe the doomsday scenarios either . But that does n’t mean the society should n’t prepare for the worst . Mogull explains the literal terror :
The real number is n’t Mac vs. Windows , but Mac and Windows 7 vs. Windows XP . Once attackers face two season political program , instead of two harden platforms and a ball field - occupy defenseless babe clout , that ’s when market place share starts to really matter .
Who bed we might miss XP when it ’s gone ? Well , other than from the coffin nail - of - our - jokes slant .
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Who likes red meat?!
After eld of struggling to bring tablets to the masses , it finally looks like our Friend over at Microsoft have come up with their iPad killer : a PowerPoint deck ! After all , FUD is their pith competency .
One glide enquiry how an enterprise could insure corporate intellectual property and extenuate against lost and stolen iPads . Another slideway , title “ What customers are telling us about the iPad , ” dismisses the iPad as “ misfortunate for data creation ” and as having “ limited enterprise manageability , security , hardware and financial backing ” .
Microsoft ’s answer , on the other handwriting , was give away gamy by people who wanted to use a mouse with their tablet , bask the time the thrill - up cps affords them to get a cup of java or take up macramé , and those who are simply satisfy with self - loathing .
It then suggest a number of points that could be used as a plan of legal action for approaching endeavor clients that are not already committed to the iPad , then strategies for approaching those that are .
“ The first step is to latch onto their leg and start cry . And , whatever you do , do n’t let go no matter how firmly they shake . ”
on the face of it the company hasfinally started noticingApple sitting in the cafeteria rust out of a dark-brown paper bag with “ Microsoft ” written on it with anEl Markoby Microsoft ’s mom .
The company see some of the microcomputer sales book being replaced with lozenge and sometimes ultraportables . As tablet were lower-ranking devices that were n’t unmediated information processing system , they had created a “ petty bit of a pull ” on the food market , the company said .
Oh . Really . “ tablet . ” Wonder who sell these so - call “ pad ” ? Probably lots of companies in adequate proportions .
You have to feel a little sorry for Microsoft . They ’ve tried several times in the last 10 years to score a basket with dissimilar tablet strategies . Then Apple walk in and sinks a behind - the - back shot from down court . That ’s gravel ta pain .
No à la carte orders
InfoWorld ’s Galen Gruman reports that Microsoft is n’t the only one seeminglystruggling with the lozenge thing .
Where the PlayBook differs from every other tablet , real or declare , is that it must be tether to a BlackBerry ( via Bluetooth ) to access secured services such as email and VPN approach that a business would make available via BlackBerry Enterprise Server ( BES ) .
smart as a whip . The Macalope meet no way this “ enterprise client must buy two gimmick ” architectural plan could possibly fail .
RIM ’s plan also is mean to tempt companies to ( re)standardize on BlackBerrys , given that BES ca n’t manage other devices ; it ’s a jambon - fisted coming to examine to vacate the BlackBerry hegira now pass in business .
Yes . When your girlfriend is leaving you because this guy she meet is more dynamical , give her more exemption to be herself and , frankly , is just better look , it ’s always a good idea to turn into a control freak . That’llget her back !
The Macalope marvel if anyone at RIM toldDeutsche Bankabout this design .
International financial firm Deutsche Bank should be choose for the iPhone over its late smartphone of alternative , the BlackBerry , says an psychoanalyst with the ship’s company ’s Equity Research mathematical group , Chris Whitmore .
Well , gosh , that ’s sure going to be clumsy when they go to deploy the PlayBook !
Like the Macalope , Gruman wonders if RIM ’s crazy like a fox or just apparently crazy like a freakin ’ crazy person .
My conversations with brim EXEC leads me to consider that the real drift behind the PlayBook strategy was to bolster the BlackBerry in business while having a product that would fell in the consumer market . But those same conversation afford me small sense that RIM has think through what it takes to execute this goal in either marketplace .
Really ? Gosh , their executives sound soon top of it in their interviews .
He is n’t gain any sense at all . Quite literally , we do n’t know what Mike is talking about right now .
No , the Macalope ’s never cash in one’s chips to contain quote that consultation because it ’s just too funny .
