Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

In early July I attended the Apple WorldWide Developer Conference where I witnessed the announcement that Apple was transitioning to the Intel chip. Naturally this caused quite a stir. However after the initial buzz it was made clear that OS X would only run on Mac hardware with Intel chips. In my humble opinion that’s a mistake. OS X is superior Windows XP so why not make it available for all PC’s?? Sure you might lose some of your hardware market share, right? Well maybe not, I don’t know if I buy that argument. Apple hardware sales are on the rise fueled by the iPod/iTunes craze and new Mac Mini. Just like iTunes fueled Apple’s bottom line I think making OS X available for all PC’s will help them as well. Anyway is yet another article on how the community is hacking the OS X to work on PC’s.

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We don’t know whether Justin Nolan—who answered the call of UNEASYsilence’s recent OS X Intel challenge—used the
same exact techniques as we saw before to do it, but it
looks like he too has joined the elite ranks of those running OS X on his PC laptop (in this case a Vaio TR2A, how
appropriate). Of course, these laptops won’t run Rosetta since none have SSE3, but if you want to talk straight up
functional x86 OS X, this is your biz.

(Via Engadget.)

Is this rumour true? I think so, it makes sense. Ubiquitous WiFi for all manner of tech devices is coming fast. For instance your WiFi equipped personal digital assistant (PDA) will be handed off from network to network as you roam through major cities.

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Suddenly Google local (and maps, and video, and so on) makes so much more sense—Business 2.0 reports that they’ve
learned from ‘telecom insiders’ that Google is hard at work on a nation-wide high-capacity data network, buying up
unused fiber lines and cheap backbone access to really flesh out their capacity. B2 theorizes this could result in a
massive digital video db, on-demand television (IPTV) system, or free ad-based WiFi network, which in conjunction with
location-tracking hotspot firm Feeva, has already been pilot launched in San Francisco serving up Google Local-based
ads. Could Google really power not just Internet search, but a sizable portion of the Internet? Beats us, but if they
want to make it happen, they better get that AdSense click fraud thing sorted out asap.

(Via Engadget.)