Archives: January 2004
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Apple’s ‘1984’ nabs no. 4 in CBS’s ‘Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials of All Time’
CBS’s special “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commericals” aired tonight from 9-10pm ET/PT in the U.S…
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Apple offers 10% off all iPods January 31 and February 1 only
Apple is offering 10% off on all iPod orders from the Apple Store. The offer is good on January 31 and…
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Beleaguered Gateway to buy eMachines; combo could be 3rd largest Wintel box assembler
Struggling computer and consumer electronics maker Gateway Inc. announced yesterday that it is acquiring rival computer…
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RIAA applauds Pepsi’s music giveaway ad for Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Downloading music online from rogue file-sharing networks got 14-year-old Annie Leith sued for thousands of dollars…
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Apple releases Final Cut Express 2.0.2 Update
Apple has released Final Cut Express 2.0.2 which includes fixes and improvements for Final Cut Express 2….
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Film Exec: if Eisner’s out ‘Steve Jobs could now be a candidate to run Disney’
Pixar Animation Studios, which produced last summer’s popular ‘Finding Nemo,’ said on Thursday that it was ending talks…
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Apple to buy Pixar?
Now that Pixar and Walt Disney have gone their separate ways, does it make sense for Apple to buy Pixar?
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Tech TV presents ‘the making of Pepsi, Apple iTunes ad’ story today
Sunday marks the launch of the long-promised campaign between Apple and Pepsi to give away 100 million free songs…
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Pixar shares rise, Disney falls after film distribution deal breakup
Shares of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. rose while those of Walt Disney Co. fell on Friday after the two failed…
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Virginia’s Arlington Public Schools want to switch from Mac to PC to save money
It’s the new age-old question, ‘Which is better, Mac or PC?’ The Arlington [Virginia] Public Schools are looking at making the switch…
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RUMOR: Virginia Tech’s ‘Big Mac’ supercomputer to be ‘Supersized’
VT Xserve G5s to be at least 2.4GHz: The usual suspects say there is a very good reason for the timing of Virginia Tech’s…
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Microsoft’s Mac-loving employees have unique perspective on personal computer landscape
People sometimes stare when Microsoft Corp. executive Tim McDonough opens his laptop in meetings…
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Studios suitors ‘falling all over themselves’ to woo Steve Jobs’ Pixar
Now that the studio behind the blockbuster ‘Finding Nemo’ has cut bait with Walt DisneyCo., Pixar Animation Inc…
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PC World: Mac OS X holdouts clinging to Mac OS 9.2 are ‘missing out by holding out’
No one likes migrating to a new operating system, even if it is OS X. Last month I asked you OS X holdouts out there…
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Pepsi’s iTunes Super Bowl commercial available here via QuickTime
Pepsi-Cola’s iTunes Super Bowl commercial, which will kick off the Apple/Pepsi 100 million song giveaway is now…
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Nudge Contextual Menu ‘nudges’ Mac OS X Finder to update its view
The Nudge Contextual Menu “nudges” the Finder to update the information it displays about a file or folder…
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Pixar dumps Disney; Steve Jobs: ‘we’re moving on’
The cloud of uncertainty hovering over Disney thickened as Pixar closed the door on their distribution arrangement…
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Analyst: Pepsi iTunes campaign will generate sales of ‘5-10 million songs per week by summer, or 200
Digital music goes prime time during this weekend’s Super Bowl. Pepsi-Cola’s launch Sunday of the highest-profile…
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TuneRecycler.com debuts: ‘transforming useless soda caps into a force for good’
Pepsi is giving away 100 million iTunes songs under Pepsi bottlecaps…
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Coca-Cola and MusicMatch announce joint promotion; songs won’t play on iPod
Coca-Cola Co., which famously offered to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, now wants to teach the world to download…
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USA Today: Apple’s GarageBand and the rest of iLife ‘04 are ‘top-flight’
Thanks to a recently introduced Apple program called GarageBand, I have a chance to be almost famous…
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Apple launches free repair program for select iBooks; full refund for those who have already paid re
Apple Computer Inc. said Wednesday that it launched a three-year, worldwide repair program for certain of its iBook…
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New version of Mydoom Windows virus appears, attacks Microsoft; Macintosh unaffected
Internet security experts found a new version of the Mydoom computer worm, dubbed the Mydoom.B…
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The Age: Apple’s GarageBand is ‘music synthesis for the rest of us’
According to a playwright bloke named William Congreve who was known in the boozers of London about the end of the…
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FBI agent: ‘Macs running Mac OS X can do just about anything’
Dave Thomas, former chief of computer intrusion investigations at FBI headquarters, and current Assistant…
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