by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Apple cages Leopard for six more months

analysis
Apr 18, 20072 mins

Leopard in waiting: Apple extended the wait time for Leopard (aka OSX 10.5) by six months, and Tom Yager says there's a greater goal behind the delay than just final tweaking of features -- and it involves the iPhone (speaking of which, Cisco just dropped a few more details on the Cisco-Apple iPhone interoperability agreement). Do you agree with Tom's vision? Read his blog and post a comment. Mashup mania: It's

Leopard in waiting: Apple extended the wait time for Leopard (aka OSX 10.5) by six months, and Tom Yager says there’s a greater goal behind the delay than just final tweaking of features — and it involves the iPhone (speaking of which, Cisco just dropped a few more details on the Cisco-Apple iPhone interoperability agreement). Do you agree with Tom’s vision? Read his blog and post a comment.

Mashup mania: It’s more than just maps of housing prices or crime statistics — mashup technology is ready for enterprise prime time, according to the CEOs of Kapow, StrikeIron, and Teqlo. Check out our video roundtable of these three execs discussing what drives enterprise mashups, and why they’re a good thing for business.

Greener than thou: How do you measure energy efficiency? With vendors on a rambunctious quest to tout their own “green-ness” and stomp on their competitors’ claims of eco-friendliness, there seems to be a lot of statistics-spinning going on. Ted Samson puts a point on the issue and raises a good question in his recent Sustainable IT post: is it greener to massively reduce the amount of energy and resources from your prior usage, or is it greener to be using less in the first place? Or… does it matter, as long as you’re keeping sustainability in mind when making tech decisions?