Monday, November 15, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Ars Technica) 11/14/2010

Week in Apple: R.I.P. Xserve, and wherefore art thou, AirPrint?
The Xserve will soon be dead, but at least we have 10.6.5 to console us. Right? Well, maybe not. This week in Apple news has been a roller coaster, with removed (and then hacked back in) support for AirPrint in Mac OS X, a discussion about the Mac App Store's effect on software bundles, how Apple is dealing with IPv6, and more. Read on for the weekly roundup:
Apple sending Xserve to giant server farm in the sky: As of January 31, 2011, the Xserve will be no more. Apple will continue to support the ones that already exist (until AppleCare runs out, anyway), but those looking for Mac-based servers will have to look at the Mac mini Server and the new Mac Pro Server instead.
Tiny MacBook Air SSDs from Toshiba now available to everyone: New MacBook Air owners now have an OEM drop-in replacement for the SSD, while notebook manufacturers now have a space-saving design option.
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Week in tech: Android's missing features, unauthorized LimeWire, and more
Five features Google needs to deliver in Android 2.3: While we wait for Google to finish baking fresh Gingerbread cookies for the Android faithful, the Ars staff contemplates some of the features that we hope to see in version 2.3 of the mobile operating system.
Pilots told to avoid new airport scanners, "demeaning" pat-downs: A major pilots' union worries about the radiation coming out of the new "backscatter" and "millimeter wave" airport scanners, and they're not big fans of the newly aggressive crotch gropings that greet anyone who declines a scan. In fact, they say, pilots should be totally exempt.
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