Apple’s iTunes Music Store now shows 13 total countries in the “Choose Store” menu in the iTunes application…
Month: October 2004
Signs point to Apple adding to their 30 million Mac users via ‘iPod Halo Effect’
Some analysts say that bringing the iPod to Windows was the marketing move that made the iPod the white-hot commodity…
Virgina Tech’s faster ‘Big Mac’ System X supercomputer aims for top-ten world ranking
Virginia Tech’s recently rebuilt Mac supercomputer has squeezed out a few more teraflops, but it probably won’t be able…
Apple Computer to host special event with U2 today
Apple Computer last Monday sent out an invitation to press outlets to attend a special event scheduled for today…
Virginia Tech ‘Big Mac’ System X achieves 12.25 teraflops
After achieving international honors and accolades for building System X, the fastest supercomputer at any academic institution…
Merrill Lynch: Apple ‘likely to intro two new iPod offshoots in first half 2005’
Merrill Lynch said Apple Computer will likely introduce two new offshoots of its popular iPod MP3 player by the first half of 2005…
Is U2 cool enough for Apple?
‘I hate U2,’ said my 17-year-old son during a commercial between innings while we were watching the baseball playoffs last week…
HP Tunes allows playing of iTunes songs and playlists in Windows Media Center interface
The latest Media Center PCs from HP come with a special iTunes-related feature built into Microsoft’s new Windows XP…
Bono-Glaser photo caption contest now open
Apple Computer and the rock band U2 are rumored have inked a deal to sell customized iPods. The announcement…
Apple, iTunes, Steve Jobs along with Real, Rob Glaser up for Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards
Billboard today announced finalists for the first annual Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards. Apple…
Renepo worm targets Mac OS X
SH/Renepo-A is a shell script worm targeted at the Macintosh OS X platform. If run on your computer…
2,890 south Florida students get Apple iBooks
Azer Delva, 17, of Miramar, said he is the luckiest teenager, or at least one of 2,890 lucky teens, at Miramar High School…
Some U2 fans furious over group’s Apple iPod deal
Angry fans have accused U2 of ‘selling out’ after the veteran band signed a deal with global corporation Apple…
Microsoft’s WMV9 ‘standardization’ going awry?
Microsoft Corp.’s effort to shoulder its way into consumer electronics, movies and TV broadcasting worldwide by proposing its proprietary Windows Media Video 9…
Happy 3rd birthday to Apple’s iPod
Today is Apple iPod’s 3rd birthday, as the diminutive money-maker was announced by Apple Computers CEO, Steve Jobs, on October 23, 2001…
Apple Computer brand has regained much of its early appeal
Not so long ago, to claim Apple as a choice computer solution was to open the doors wide open to mockery and derision…
CherryOS Mac emulator for Windows XP slated for November 25th release
A free trial of the controversial CherryOS Mac emulator will be available for download Nov. 25, according to a statement…
Eovia ships Carrara? 4
Eovia Corp., developer and publisher of 3D animation, modeling and rendering software, today shipped…
Good Housekeeping: Apple’s iPod mini ‘the pick of the new MP3 players’
Portable music and video devices have made it easy to carry concerts and movies around with you. The Good Housekeeping Institute…
View earth from space right on your Mac OS X Desktop
OSXplanet is a live desktop program based on xplanet. It was written in Objective-C and Cocoa…
Secunia: tabbed browsers can disclose confidential info
New vulnerabilities in virtually every non-Internet Explorer browser give hackers a way to hijack confidential data entered…
Zonic releases ‘Halloween Edition’ of Chameleon
Zonic are pleased to announce the release of their special “Halloween Edition” of Chameleon, their application…
Ballmer blames Windows users for not upgrading systems as Microsoft’s biggest security problem
Microsoft has admitted that it can’t beat hackers all the time, but will do its best…
iTunes Netherlands to launch next week?
According to several tipsters, on Thursday Apple began loading a significant quantity of Dutch content into the iTunes store…
Apple Computer spawns ‘white, white world of the iPod economy’
It’s the white, white world of the iPod economy, an exploding universe in which marketers such as Hewlett-Packard, Kate Spade, Bose and BMW…
Guardian writer thinks Apple must open iPod or Microsoft will eventually own market
Apple announced outstanding financial results last week, thanks mainly to a 500% increase in the sales of iPod music…
Microsoft jams ‘Windows Automotive’ into cars; will it work with Apple’s iPod?
Microsoft wants your next car or SUV to run Windows. It’s no joke. The world’s largest software company is revving up…
iPod iParties turn everyone into a DJ
It’s Friday night in Melbourne, and at a corridor-sized club in the CBD the music is pumping but there are no turntables…
Analyst: new Apple mini retail stores could boost market share
Apple’s mini store strategy could be key to boosting Apple’s PC market share. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told…
Apple iPod demand could make the mid-‘80s run on Cabbage Patch Kids look like child’s stuff
Last week, a bearded and chipper Steve Jobs walked through Stanford Shopping Center to unveil a new retail concept for Apple…
Are you ignoring the power of Apple’s iSync for Mac OS X?
How does an ordinary mortal take advantage of the kind of networks we have now? Answer: download iSync 1.5…
Wisconsin students use Apple iMovie to edit U.S. presidential candidate videos
Parkview Middle School eighth-graders are learning as much about sound bites, newscasts and movie-making as they…
Apple’s iTunes Music Store named ‘Best Music Service’ at Digital Music Awards
Apple’s iTunes Music Store won recognition once again last night, at the Digital Music Awards. The service took first prize…
Bloor Research on Microsoft: ‘There are definitely some dents in the Death Star’
A few years ago, few analysts would have predicted that Microsoft might share the key computer code that powers its dominant…
U2’s rumored upcoming endorsement will help expand Apple iPod market
Apple Computer and the rock band U2 have inked a deal to sell customized iPods, The Post has learned…
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to feature QuickTime Sharing with Mail and .Mac integration
QuickTime 6.6, which could likely turn into QuickTime 7.0 just prior to its release, has been under development alongside Tiger…
Apple begins selling pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’
Apple is offering pre-release versions of Mac
Apple plans fourth international retail store in Birmingham, UK
Apple has earmarked the Bullring in the Birmingham, UK, area as the home for its fourth international store…
Microsoft attempts to isolate Apple with ‘PlaysForSure’ logo plan
Microsoft has put… the ‘PlaysForSure’ logo onto any device that offers its proprietary software. The idea is to isolate Apple…
Microsoft to launch ‘swiss army knife’ desktop communications application
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it is launching a desktop application that aims to seamlessly integrate e-mail…
Microsoft hopes to own Internet music market by leveraging Windows monopoly
By leveraging Windows’ 95 percent market share, Microsoft hopes to become the de facto standard for downloading music…
Study: Apple iTunes Music Store dominates with 70 percent market share, second place Napster holds 1
A new NPD Group study finds that the gap between paid music downloads and files acquired through peer-to-peer…
