Day: January 13, 2010

Apple co-founder Woz thinks cloud will soon have “horrible problems” Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke about his concerns regarding the cloud after a special performance of Mike Daisey’s monologue. Wozniak took to the stage last night following Daisey’s penultimate performance of his controversial one-man show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, for a Q&A session with the audience. He revealed that he thinks the cloud is going to be “horrendous,” reports Agence France-Presse. “I really worry about everything going into the cloud,” said Wozniak. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to...

Optical cables ship for Thunderbolt ports For more than a year Intel has talked about graduating from copper wires to fibreoptics for Thunderbolt ports on Apple Mac computers, and Sumitomo is now shipping test samples of optical Thunderbolt cables, which were also used in demonstrations at Intel’s booth during the NAB show last week in Las Vegas. The Sumitomo optical cables will enable longer cable runs than the current Thunderbolt copper cables, an Intel spokesman said. Thunderbolt is a high-speed connector technology that shuttles data between computers and peripherals. The first ports were introduced in Apple’s Mac computers in February...