As a .Mac subscriber, I can confirm that this story is true. I have sent myself an email to what will be my @me.com account and it does, in fact, work.

Me.com email addresses online?: “

Filed under: Rumors, .Mac

Macrumors.com is reporting that for some .Mac users, using a me.com email address seems to be working. For instance, if your .Mac account name is username, sending an email to username@me.com works the same as sending one to username@mac.com.

Your mileage may vary — as of 8:35 PM EDT on Saturday, June 28, 2008, it wasn’t working for me.

[via MacRumors.com]

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Muwahhahahahaha!!!! Absolutely CAN’T wait for this!

#11558 - Diablo 3, by Blizzard Entertainment. Announced…: “

Diablo 3, by Blizzard Entertainment. Announced today at World Wide Invitational. Check the site’s artwork.
‘And the Heavens Shall Tremble’.

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(Via NOTCOT.ORG.)

Waiting for Jobs to get old? Uh huh, this is just a CEO scared to death that Mobile service is going to be relegated to a commodity and it just won’t matter what provider you use, as long as you can use the tool you want. That that Verizon know anything about letting people use the tools they want.

Verizon Waiting for Jobs to ‘Get Old’: “

Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon, when asked about Apple in an interview with The Financial Times:

As handsets become banking tools and games controllers, he argues, mobile operators can up-end other companies’ business models. ‘It’s very cool. And Steve Jobs eventually will get old… I like our chances.’

What’s particularly odd about this remark is that Seidenberg is nine years old than Jobs.

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(Via Daring Fireball.)

Since establishing an EntreCard account, it’s been easy to become incredibly obsessive about visiting about 300 sites per day. Those with an EntreCard account know exactly why. This has provided the opportunity to see a large number of websites that normally wouldn’t have been seen. So there is a pet peeve that needs to be expressed.

It’s incredible that you like music. Most people like music. Music is wonderful. I DON’T WANT TO LISTEN TO YOUR MUSIC ON YOUR WEBSITE. There is little more annoying on a website, I don’t care if you are a blog, ESPN, or Honda, than being audibly assaulted in the first two seconds of opening a webpage. Web browsers run on a computer, computers can do several things at once. iTunes is consistently playing something. When a web page loads that has music, or video that automatically starts playing it’s like those annoying television commercials that are louder than the program you are watching, feels like you’ve just been slapped in the face.

So cut it out, find another way to express yourself, without slapping visitors upside the head when they visit your site.

Now, this is what I’m talking about.

Of course this isn’t anything that surprising from the consulting that I’m doing. The Mac is because of very viable solution. It was before, or at least since 2000, but now, the popularity is making being a Mac user less objectionable. And the tools available on the Mac can really help businesses to increase productivity, which saves money, which fattens up that bottom line.

Macs Now Found in 8 of 10 Businesses: “

A new survey conducted by Yankee Group Research Inc. of more than 700 senior IT administrators and C-level executives revealed that nearly 80% of businesses have Macs in-house. This number is up from the last survey in 2006 which indicated that 47% of businesses had in-house Macs.

Two interesting details of this survey are:

1. 21% of the firms surveyed reported having delpoyed more than 50 Macs (some ranged into the thousands)
2. 28% of the firms reported running Windows in a virtual machine on the Macs

Clearly, virtualization software has helped catalyze this trend towards Mac delpoyment. The two leaders in virtualization software are VMware Inc. (their product is Fusion) and Parallels.

In business and in education, there is an increasing trend towards making the Mac the platform of choice. The one unfortunate side-effect from this trend may be the increased (although minimal) exposure of the Mac OS to hackers’ efforts.

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(Via Mac-Sage.)