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Here’s the link.

There’s bound to be a few Mac genius types out there!

We’re having our first meeting of 2008 on Monday the 18th of February.
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Apple is running what is hopefully the first of a series of technical events in Belfast starting with “Server Infrastructure and System Imaging” using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server.

It’s going to be quite technical as you can see from the PDF and aimed at IT staff who have good IT and OSX skills.

You need to register as soon as possible! It’s a full day of information from Apple in their server technologies! If Apple get a good attendance from us they’ll consider doing more - we have the interest in Northern Ireland, we just need to tell Apple about it!

Click on the invitation link, read the details and send an email!

Server Technology Invitation (240K download, PDF)

Hope to see you all there.

Free and not so free WiFi access points across the island of Ireland. Hundreds of them.
This was created by James at EirePreneur.
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and we embrace 2008.

Have fun tonight celebrating Old Years Night and tomorrow.

As reported on cimota (and duped on infurious:

Check your iPhone bill for hidden extras.

During signup we were told that we’d get to choose insurance during the activation of our iPhones at the o2 store in Castlecourt. Turns out this was a lie designed to fool us into signing up for insurance though we explicitly said we didn’t want it.

Carphone Warehouse recently got fined for mis-selling insurance for phones. Looks like o2 need to take stock at their own stores.

See the bit under “monthly extras” and make sure you signed up for them!

Sorry folks but the time is running out so we’ll have a meeting in the new year!

Merry Xmas all.

From iLounge:
iPhone browser share overtakes Windows Mobile

According to the latest browser marketshare report from Net Applications, the iPhone and iPod touch have attained a .1 percent share of browser usage, besting Microsoft’s Windows CE platform, which has a .06 percent share of the market. Microsoft has been selling Windows CE devices since 1996, and according to Gartner shipped more than three million of the devices in Q1 2007.

This means that despite there being millions and millions more Windows Mobile devices (and Internet Explorer for mobile devices being introduced in November 1996), people just aren’t using them for the web???? Having used a Windows CE 2 device back in the day, I could see why.

According to Computerworld, if the iPhone maintains this rate of growth, it could be the third largest computing platform “by the end of next year.”

Whoah!

According to Larry Dignan on ZDNet:

• Hard drives are the “hot” PC accessory this holiday season.
  Of course with Leopard and Time Machine we can see that an external drive quickly becomes a must-have for anyone wanting to retain their data. It really takes the pain out of maintaining backups.
• Notebook demand remains strong.
  Anyone could have told you this. With AOL giving low-end laptops away and MacBook demand going through the roof, people are keen on having computing where they want it rather than having to place the computer in the spare room. And nothing beats using your laptop to answer those questions that strike in the middle of the night. Or is that just me?
• Anything Apple.
  No surprise here either. A recent report said that 1 iPhone and 13 iPods are being sold an hour currently in any one of the Apple Retail Stores. Like last year, this is going to increase as Christmas approaches.
• Printers are an afterthought
  I’d not really noticed but I don’t have a working printer at home currently. I’ve just not needed it. Having the iPhone makes a difference for sure because I tend to keep stuff in my email and of course, iPhone is really good for email. I never need to print anything.
• Smartphone discounts abound, but not for long.
  These discounts were in direct competition with the iPhone but they were simply not sustainable. Of course there’s a palpable difference between having a smartphone and a smart phone. Hey, it’s the same phone as Chris Moyles and Jeremy Clarkson.

Friday nights are not probably the best for everyone so we’ll have a poll.

Use the comments field for adding extra options if you like. We’re talking about a 2 hour meeting, in the evening, at the Lawn Tennis Club (due entirely to availability and therefore in Belfast for the foreseeable future).

Let’s hear your voice!