When one is faced with hundreds of CDs that need to be ripped into iTunes, every bit of time-saving techniques…
Month: February 2004
Next Microsoft Xbox to use three 64-bit G5 microprocessors like those in Apple’s Power Mac G5
Microsoft has quietly circulated the specifications for its next-generation Xbox video-game console, indicating how the company plans…
Washington Post: Internet punishing for Windows users, Mac users surf with impunity
The ongoing Internet-security freakout for anybody using Windows keeps getting worse. Every other week yet another…
eWeek: No Windows ‘Longhorn’ until 2008; superficial XP Reloaded ‘a bad idea that’ll probably be rus
You heard it here first: Windows Longhorn, the follow-on to Windows XP, won’t be on store shelves until 2008…
Rio Exec: Apple has ‘priced themselves out of the market’ with $249 iPod mini
Is $249 a mass-market price tag for a portable music player? That’s the debate raging in consumer electronics circles…
San Fran mayors, Steve Jobs cut ribbon for new Apple Store with enthusiastic crowd on hand
While the crowds — who numbered around twelve hundred at opening, according to Apple’s official count…
Intel’s ‘Itanic’ mistake forces chipmaker to play catch-up with Apple, IBM, AMD
In its biggest strategic mistake in a decade, Intel has spent an estimated $2 billion creating a high-speed computer chip…
Microsoft could be ordered to remove Windows Media Player from Windows in Europe
In the fall of 2002, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates stood on stage at Hollywood’s Kodak Theater, home to the Academy Awards…
FireWire faster than USB 2.0; newer FireWire 800 beats both handily
FireWire has two main strengths over USB. First, it’s got a much sexier name. Second, it’s much faster, even compared with the newer…
RUMOR: Power Mac ‘Quadra’ G5 quad processor coming soon?
The following is an unconfirmed rumor, so please take it or leave it. Our lone source on this one indicates…
Apple usually ahead of the times; Windows users often have to wait to catch up
In case you didn’t hear about it, January marked the 20th anniversary of Apple Computer
Personal stereo device expert: ‘iPod mini will be popular, Apple’s machines are brilliant in every r
Lecturer Dr. Michael Bull is “the world’s leading — perhaps only — expert on the social impact of personal stereo devices…
BBC News: security didn’t matter to Microsoft until users started looking for alternative OSes
David Aucsmith is Microsoft’s security architect, and he came to London this week to ask forgiveness…
Apple to sell $250 ‘lucky bags’ at San Fran retail store grand opening
To celebrate the grand opening of Apple Computer’s new Union Square store in San Francisco, 200 shoppers will be given a dubious opportunity…
Apple announces flagship San Fran retail store grand opening this Saturday
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Analyst: iPod mini ‘a very slick product’ that ‘raises the bar’ for competitors
The debut of the iPod mini, Apple Computer’s newest portable music player, has many digital music fans singing its praises…
With $2.1 billion, Steve Jobs in at no. 262 in Forbes’ List of the World’s Richest People
Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp., is the world’s richest person for the seventh consecutive year with a net worth…
Apple CFO Anderson: Apple Retail Stores ‘creating significant growth’
During a Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium in Phoenix, chief financial officer Fred Anderson…
EU draft decision to fine Microsoft; potentially strip Media Player from Windows or include QuickTim
European regulators considered forcing Microsoft Corp. to change the way it sells its Windows software around the world but decided…
Beatles’ Apple vs. Jobs’ Apple; 1991 agreement allows for ‘data transmission services, even music’
Apple Computer and the Beatles’ record company Apple Corps went to court in Britain on Wednesday over…
Details emerge in Eminem vs. Apple Computer lawsuit
Rap superstar Eminem, who says he could earn more than $US10 million for endorsing a product…
Fortune writer: iPod mini? For $50 more I’ll take a 15GB iPod instead
I’ve been using an iPod mini for a few weeks�Apple lent me a gold one, the least popular of the five metallic colors…
Fortune writer: iPod mini? For $50 more I’ll take a 15GB iPod instead
I’ve been using an iPod mini for a few weeks
Microsoft tries to push WMA by propping up beleaguered Napster
In the battle over digital music, Microsoft may be forced to play kingmaker – or else be reduced to a pawn…
New MyDoom Windows worm deletes random files; Macintosh unaffected
Security experts issued fresh alerts over a new, file-deleting version of the MyDoom e-mail worm that was targeting computer users…
Merrill Lynch: ‘iPod success eventually to spill over into Mac purchases’
Merrill Lynch increased its 2004 unit growth forecast to 13% from 11%, the same as in 2003, based…
Apple retail stores coming to Canada
The next round of Apple’s international retail store experiment is set to touchdown in Canada, according…
Apple vs. Apple judge admits owning an iPod
Mr Justice Mann, of the High Court Chancery Division, revealed today that he owns an Apple iPod
Apple adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks and exclusives to iTunes Music Store
Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to rock on weekly. Apple has announced new releases to the iTunes Music Store…
Apple Computer to contest Beatles’ U.K. lawsuit in court today
Apple Computer Inc. will return to London’s High Court today to contest the latest lawsuit brought by a company owned by the Beatles…
Apple releases iPod mini 1.0 Software
The iPod mini 1.0 Software updates and restores software on your iPod mini…
BusinessWeek: Apple ‘now is the time to move’ on corporate-computing market
When Apple Computer hired Sebastian Gunningham away from Oracle in the spring of 2002, some analysts thought CEO Steve Jobs…
Napster 2.0 announces 5 million songs sold; pales in comparison to Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Napster [2.0], the digital song store and subscription service launched by Roxio in late October, said Monday…
Eminem suing Apple Computer; claims song used in ad without permission
Rapper Eminem’s music publisher is suing Apple Computer Inc., claiming the company used one of the hip-hop superstar’s songs…
Analyst: Apple PowerBook G5 to debut no ‘later than July or August’
Motorola on Monday announced a faster PowerPC chip that could be used in speedier Apple Computer laptops…
Apple releases Security Update 2004-02-23
Apple has released Security Update 2004-02-23 which delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended…
NY Post: Apple’s ‘Steve Jobs is on a roll, again’
Steve Jobs is on a roll, again. With iTunes music Web site, the hot new iPod mini-digital device from Apple and Pixar’s wildly…
ZDNet Executive Editor Coursey: ‘Macs don’t crash and Windows machines do’
In my computing life, there’s one constant: The Macs don’t crash and the Windows machines do. I mention this because on Thursday…
Fortune: Apple ranked fourth most admired computer industry company
Fortune’s annual list of America’s Most Admired Companies is now out. Apple placed fourth in the computer industry…
Network World Fusion’s 2003 Cool Tools Best of the Tests Award: Apple iSight camera
In 2002, Apple revolutionized the MP3 player market with its iPod music player. Apple wasn’t the first company to produce an MP3 player…
Apple’s iPod becomes a popular target for thieves
Apple’s iPod music player is not only popular with shoppers – it is also becoming increasingly popular with criminals…
NY Post: Apple’s iPod mini ‘hits the streets with a roar;’ Apple.com traffic up 24 percent
Apple Computer hit the cultural jackpot yesterday as its rainbow-hued iPod Mini – a portable jukebox barely larger…
