Apple iPod users can very soon avail of a bluetooth wireless adaptor and headset for listening to music…
Month: March 2004
Real CEO hopes for Apple iPod opening
It sounds like Rob Glaser is itching for an invite to Apple Computer’s digital music party. Glaser, chief executive of multimedia…
Acton Institute: EU case against Microsoft ‘immoral’
Last week, European Union commissioner Mario Monti inflicted a 497 million Euros fine on Microsoft — the highest fine in the history…
More people use Apple Macs than you think; 8-12 percent of homes use Macs
Your neighbor drives home with his new BMW and the first thing you say to him is a wisecrack about his car’s low market share…
Digital music panel: Apple could become the MTV of the record industry
Evolution, convergence, and integration: these were just some of the lofty concepts thrown around at Digital Hollywood…
Apple publicly understating iTunes Music Store downloads?
Some buzz circulating that Steve Jobs and Apple may be doing a masterful job of understating the success of iTunes to discourage…
California judge paves way for Apple Computer vs. Apple Corps lawsuit
A U.S. judge ruled that a trademark lawsuit brought by Apple Computer Inc. against a company owned by members of the Beatles…
RUMOR: Apple already prepping Power Mac G6?
Wednesday, IBM will be holding its POWER/PowerPC processor event — and if these rumors prove true…
How to sell your music on Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Higgs Communications has published a detailed guide to selling your music on the iTunes Music Store…
Apple can’t keep iPod mini on store shelves
In search of a replacement for his broken MP3 digital music player, Nathan Ward had narrowed his choice to Apple’s iPod Mini…
Harvard Law School conducts Apple iTunes case study
A research initiative of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the “Digital Media Project,” has been posted online…
New virtual reality website launched featuring Apple’s QuickTime VR
Kaidan Incorporated, a leading provider of Photographic VR solutions for the Internet, is pleased to announce their support of a new virtual reality website…
Prince bypasses iTunes Music Store, others; launches own online music store
Prince may have just signed a deal with major label Columbia Records, but that doesn’t mean he’s playing ball completely…
President George W. Bush calls for universal broadband by 2007
President George W. Bush is calling for universal and affordable access to broadband Internet service by 2007…
RUMOR: Apple to release new PowerBook G4s this week
Apple will be releasing new PowerBook G4s this week. All have faster processors, and the top models also have the new…
Xserve powering Apple into enterprise hearts and minds
Ausmelt is a $13 million outfit that supplies smelting technology services around the clock to huge global enterprises such as Alcoa…
RUMOR: Apple PowerBook G5 to be announced in June, to ship July/August
One major bone of contention among the usual suspects is whether we will see a Powerbook G5 or an iMac G5 first…
Apple submits patent application for iPod’s interface, invented in-part by CEO Steve Jobs
Apple has applied for a patent on the iPod’s interface, invented in-part by Steve Jobs. The company’s CEO…
Wall Street Journal: ‘Online music shakeout appears to be under way’
With too many players jostling for too few chairs in the online-music game, a long-predicted shakeout appears…
Apple’s iTunes Music Store has blood on its play button: BuyMusic.com is dead
According to an e-mail sent to prior customers of BuyMusic.com, the online store will become ‘integrated’ with its parent site…
Virgin’s airport luxury lounge features Apple iPods that’ll be incompatible with Virgin’s upcoming m
Airlines are trying to come up with distinctions wherever possible in their luxury-class services, and lounge improvements are a core part…
Microsoft’s ‘MSN Music Service’ due this fall will be incompatible with Apple iPod
Indie-label executives who caught a sneak peek of Microsoft’s music download service here March 18 at the South by Southwest Music Conference…
Better Business Bureau condems Apple’s Power Mac G5 ‘world’s fastest PC’ ads after Dell complains
The Council of Better Business Bureaus has recommended that Apple Computer discontinue comparative performance claims…
Marketing expert: iPod will face pricing challenge, ‘Apple has a long history of blowing it’
It’s unusual for a product like this to cross all the gender and age lines right away, but iPod is doing both…
Comcast buys TechTV
Cable television giant Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it will buy cable network TechTV from Vulcan Programming Inc….
US Department of Justice unhappy with EU’s Microsoft ruling
R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, issued the following statement yesterday after the European…
Turn your Macs into a supercomputer with Xgrid Preview 2
Apple’s Xgrid Preview 2 makes it easy to submit a long-running computation to an ad-hoc grid of Macintosh computers…
Hitachi to ramp up Apple iPod mini drive production ‘sooner than later’
Japanese electronics conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. said on Friday its supply of 1.0-inch disk drives was running behind demand…
Strong demand for iPod mini drives Apple shares up $1.37, 5.4 percent
Apple Computer Inc. added $1.37, or 5.4 percent, to close at $26.87 after saying it would have to postpone…
Forrester analyst: EU action against Microsoft too little, too late to affect Redmond
How will the EU’s antitrust ruling against Microsoft affect home PC market and European consumers?
Thurrott: Apple’s ‘iPod Mini isn’t a sales phenomenon at all’
As I wrote previously, only Apple could ship limited quantities of its iPod Mini in an attempt both show that it can meet…
Apple shares up on iPod mini sales news; Apple consuming ‘just about all the 4 GB 1-inch drives bein
Demand for Apple’s iPod mini digital music player “in the United States has outstripped expected supply through the end of June…
South African search portal Ananzi creates Mac-specific site
South African search portal Ananzi has created an environment specifically for Apple users. Ananzi MD Mark Buwalda…
iPod mini a smash success; Apple moves worldwide availability to July
Apple today announced that it is moving the worldwide availability of iPod mini to July due to the much stronger than expected…
Apple G5 opening eyes in enterprise market
Apple is emerging as a serious player in a wide range of new markets, including those for content delivery and telecommunications companies…
Happy 3rd birthday, Mac OS X!
Has it been three years already? A quick glance at the calendar tells us that the date is March 24, 2004, three years to the day after Mac OS X 10.0…
Apple should not let any other online music services work with iPod
As rivals multiply, Jobs & Co. will make more money from its music site and iPods if all the industry’s rival players…
One Forbes writer has issues with Apple’s iPod mini, iTunes
Apple Computer’s iPod mini looks as if it was designed for adolescent girls who like their electronic devices to look like their candy…
NASDAQ Analyst Recommendations shows continued positive momentum for Apple Computer
For months and months NASDAQ’s “Analysts Recommendations” (a group of 16-18 analyst firms) for Apple Computer (AAPL) looked like this…
EU fines Microsoft record $611.8 million; orders Media Player stripped from Windows within 90 days
U.S. software giant Microsoft was on Wednesday slapped with a record fine for violating European Union antitrust law and ordered…
Real CEO Glaser begs Apple to make iPod play nice with other music services
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has a message for Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs: Open iPod or shrivel…
BusinessWeek: Apple’s iPod mini a ‘Rolls-Royce’ compared to competition
I like Apple’s iPod as much as the next person. But face it, not everyone is thrilled with that touch-sensitive scroll wheel…
