Apple Computer issued on Friday a security advisory and fix for a QuickTime flaw that the company describes as a minor issue…
Month: April 2004
Piper Jaffray initiates Apple Computer coverage, sets target price to $30
Analysts at Piper Jaffray today announced they have initiated coverage of Apple Computer (AAPL) with a “market perform” rating…
Thurrott on iTunes 4.5 WMA to AAC transcoding: results ‘surprisingly positive, good stuff’
iTunes 4.5 just completed transcoding the WMA portion of my music library, or about 700 songs. It took the application 5 hours to do this…
Windows XP users try their best to simulate Mac OS X
Windows XP users have serious cases of Mac OS X lust. Trying to simulate Mac OS X on Windows XP is turning into quite the hobby lately…
Beleaguered Gateway cuts another 1,500 jobs; has cut 22,600 jobs in last four years
On Thursday, Poway, Calif.-based Gateway said it would cut another 1,500 jobs, less than a month after it closed its 188 retail stores…
Forbes: ‘competition isn’t even close’ to Apple’s iTunes; requests more iTunes features
First and foremost, if Apple is going to become the force in music sales it truly wants to be, it’s going to have to start paying…
Analysts: Apple iPod ‘an open platform – it supports MP3s – Apple is fine’
Apple’s announcement Wednesday that its latest version of iTunes for Windows will support WMA-to-AAC conversion…
iRiver President: Apple can keep the ‘iPod crown,’ we want the ‘entertainment crown’
According to most analyst estimates, the iPod has the largest market share among all portable digital media players…
Robert X. Cringely: Steve Jobs ‘is proud of being an a**hole’
Robert X. Cringely is nothing if not individualistic. That’s probably the one thing that marks him out among all…
Russian music sells ‘legal’ popular songs for just a few cents per megabyte
6.8 cents a song doesn’t even cover the royalties that other services pay to record labels, which makes me…
Sunset for Sun Microsystems?
Sun recently announced its 12th consecutive quarter of falling revenues, not to mention 3,300 more layoffs…
Apple Computer expands iBook repair program
Apple Computer has expanded a repair program designed to fix a logic board problem with some of its iBook notebooks…
TechTV’s ‘The Screen Savers’ to review Apple’s iTunes 4.5 tonight
Despite averaging 2.7 million downloads a week, holding 70 percent of the legal music-download market share…
SafariKeywords 0.6 released
SafariKeywords teaches Safari a feature that’s long been available in other browsers, such as Mozilla or OmniWeb…
Free Apple iTunes songs for 8 days in a row, then a free song every Tuesday
Apple is marking the first anniversary of its iTunes Music Store by thanking its customers with a free song of the day for the next eight days…
Apple iTunes Music Store changing the way music is marketed
iTunes is changing the way music is marketed. Consumers can now find online remixes of popular songs, live performances, singles…
RealNetworks reports wider net loss year-over-year
RealNetworks on Wednesday reported a wider net loss and brisk revenue growth compared with the same period…
Spurned by Apple, RealNetworks cozies up to Microsoft for portable music
RealNetworks Inc., which is suing rival Microsoft Corp. for $1 billion, said it wants to use Microsoft’s software to help…
Real CEO Glaser: Steve Jobs’ comments on Real ‘not succeeding’ are ‘ridiculously humorous’
RealNetworks is now involved in a war of words with rival digital music outlet Apple Computer Inc. Apple CEO Steve Jobs…
Apple ‘strengthens’ music-sharing feature in iTunes 4.5
Among other additions Apple Computer made to its iTunes software, the Mac maker has plugged a hole that allowed…
Pepsi’s Apple iTunes promo nightmare, only 5 million songs redeemed total
Apple Computer said Wednesday that about 5 million free songs have been given away through a Pepsi promotion…
Dvorak blames obsessive compulsive disorder, not Microsoft for virus problems
An estimated 3.3 million Americans alone have obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, and more attention is being paid…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ iTunes Music Store Anniversary remarks
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today said that Apple’s iTunes Music Store has the largest online catalog in the world with over 700,000 songs…
Apple launches ‘iTunes on Campus’ institutional site license program
Give your students easy access to iTunes, the best digital jukebox with the #1 music download store inside for Windows and Mac users…
New Apple iTunes 4.5 offers wide array of new print options
Apple’s new itunes 4.5 offers a wide array of new print options. iTunes downloads cover art for the music you purchase…
Thurrott on Apple iTunes’ new ‘WMA to AAC’ import feature
Apple today released iTunes 4.5, which allows you to convert WMA songs to AAC format so they’ll play on the iPod…
Use Apple iTunes’ new iMix feature to share your playlists with the world
Now you can tell your friends in an instant, and share your good taste with the rest of the world, too, with an iMix…
New ‘Apple Lossless’ encoder in iTunes 4.5 gives CD-quality audio in half the space
iTunes 4.5 users can choose to use different audio formats for any track that you import from CD. iTunes lets you convert…
The Register: ‘Apple misses iTunes sales target by 30%’
Apple undershot its first-year iTunes Music Store download target by 30 million songs, the company admitted…
BBC News: Apple iTunes Music Store has major impact on music industry
When Apple launched its online music store in the US on 28 April 2003, few could have predicted the impact…
Apple posts iPod and iPod mini Update
Apple has released iPod Update 2004-04-28 which supports all models of iPod and iPod mini introduced before…
Apple launches 3G iTunes Music Store; sold over 70 million songs in first year; adds auto WMA to AAC
Apple today celebrates the first anniversary of its iTunesMusic Store. Launched one year ago today, the iTunes Music Store…
BusinessWeek: IBM close to ironing out Apple G5 production kinks
When IBM sneezes, Apple catches a cold, goes one variation on the old saw. As the maker of the PowerPC…
Charles Arthur: Microsoft’s definition of ‘innovation’ different from everyone else’s
There are signs, if you look closely enough, that the Windows licensing engine is starting to make Microsoft a bit, well, sclerotic…
RUMOR: Apple prepping 4G iPod with color screen, 50GB drive
Apple Computer is preparing to unveil the 4th-generation of its flagship iPod music player, reliable sources told AppleInsider…
Apple’s New Zealand online store running Microsoft IIS server
Apple’s New Zealand online store is up and running on a Microsoft IIS server rather than Apple’s own Mac OS X…
Report: Apple iTunes gaining traction
The Pew Internet & American Life Project ran a survey among 1371 Internet users, according to Macworld UK…
Bush-Cheney ‘04 Re-election website adds QuickTime multimedia choice
According to the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign, “Bush-Cheney ’04 released a new television ad that will begin running…
Apple iPod’s ‘Halo Effect’ on Mac market share too early to measure
Apple Computer Inc.’s strategy of getting iPod buyers to also buy Apple desktop computers doesn’t seem to be working…
Apple releases AirPort Update 3.4.1
Apple has released AirPort Update 3.4.1 which supports both AirPort Extreme and AirPort products…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs to hold special iTunes Anniversary conference call on Wednesday
Apple has announced that it hold a special iTunes Anniversary conference call on Wednesday, April 28, 2004…
Analysts: Apple iTunes Music Store’s second year ‘may not be as rosy as the first’
A year ago this week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced an online music store that promised to make buying and playing…
