Wal-Mart Stores has quietly begun selling Apple Computer’s popular iPod Minis in select stores, the mega retailer’s first big move into…
Month: January 2005
iRiver bows to Apple’s iPod shuffle, slashes MP3 flash-based player prices up to 25 percent
Korean electronics makers are lowering the prices of their digital music players to compete with the increasing popularity of Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod…
iPod etiquette: when to talk, when to shut up, and how to learn to live with the iPod culture
It seems iPod people have taken over the world. They’re in the airport, waiting for the bus, studying in coffeehouses, working out…
Experts say Bill Gates’ doodles show he’s ‘stressed and tense, not a natural leader’ (with image)
When a sheet of paper covered in doodles was found on Tony Blair’s desk at the Davos World Economic Forum, handwriting experts delighted…
Dvorak: It’s humiliating that Apple is the company that once again lights the fuse of change
I’ve been a fan of the small computer since I first saw a little cubic box encasing a mini-iTX board. From there I’ve admired all the small boxes…
Apple gives free screen saver to .Mac members
A Freefall screen saver, with breathtaking displays of satellites orbiting Earth, is now a free download for .Mac members…
Apple tearing up The Street, up strongly to hit new intraday all-time high
Shares of Apple Computer (AAPL) are up $3.46, or 4.68%, to hit a new all-time intraday high of $77.55 per share in heavy volume…
Are Pepsi iTunes bottlecaps available in your area?
This is a simple story that MacDailyNews readers will write below. During last year’s Pepsi iTunes promo, we received many email messages…
Mossberg: Adding a Mac mini? Get a KVM switch to share your keyboard, video, mouse
Walt Mossberg answers tech questions for The Wall Street Journal. A recent question and answer…
Apple’s software business booming, up 39 percent over last year
Apple Computer Inc., which has generated plenty of buzz with its sleek-looking Macs and iPod music players, is quietly building momentum…
Pepsi iTunes Music Promotion officially underway
Apple and Pepsi have officially launched the “Pepsi iTunes Music Promotion” with 200,000,000 up for grabs…
BusinessWeek: Rather than dismissing Apple products as fads, Dell should try starting a few
The tech business has a lot of trash talkers, but Dell CEO Kevin Rollins isn’t one of them. Reserved and circumspect, he chooses his words carefully…
Where Apple leads, Wintel follows years later
Will it matter? Will the world really change now that Apple is rolling out a sub-$500 Mac named after a cute little car? Will the Mac Mini…
The iPod is bigger than Jesus, now can Apple’s Mac take on Windows?
We’ve been living, for the past couple years, in Apple’s world, a time and place in which the normal rules of commerce no longer seem to apply…
Apple unveils faster PowerBooks starting at $1499 with ‘scrolling TrackPad, Sudden Motion Sensor’
Apple today unveiled the fastest, most affordable PowerBook line ever, featuring PowerPC G4 processors running up to 1.67 GHz, faster hard drives and a faster 8X SuperDrive…
FrankenMac mini, it’s alive! Man rips apart Mac mini, turns it into PC
I’ve seen a ton of articles around the web lately comparing the Mac mini to the near full size desktop PC. What they fail to compare…
RealNetworks’ CEO Rob Glaser grabs 3 of top 10 spots on ‘Dumbest Moments in Business 2005’ list
Business 2.0 has published their annual “101 Dumbest Moments in Business” list for 2005 and, surprise, surprise, RealNetworks…
PCI graphics card supports 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display under Windows
Board maker Matrox Graphics has a new graphics card that supports very high-resolution dual-link monitors under Windows 2000 and Windows XP…
Apple ousts Google as top global brand
In the survey of almost 2,000 ad executives, brand managers and academics by online magazine Brandchannel, Apple ousted search…
Apple’s Mac mini offers relief from Windows viruses and malware
If your gig is writing computer columns, then you pretty much have to write about Apple’s new $499 Mac mini–the stripped-down desktop Macintosh…
Associated Press: Apple’s iPod shuffle is ‘the best portable music player for the money’
Since Apple Computer Inc. introduced the iPod in 2001, competitors have been scrambling to match the simplicity and style of the popular…
Bill Gates: Microsoft ‘working hard’ on Longhorn – ‘won’t be a radical shift’ just ‘an improvement’
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said current Internet search-engine technology is ‘a joke,’ and promised better features in two to three years…
Read this before you get your Apple Mac mini
Think of the Mac Mini as a laptop with the screen, keyboard and battery sliced off, or a desktop with all the air sucked out of its case…
Will Windows users abandon ship for Apple’s Mac mini?
The Apple iPod has had unprecedented success… The interesting thing about the iPod is that it has extended its success beyond…
Why Apple ships a one-button mouse even though Mac OS X supports multi-button mice
There are a lot of misconceptions about the Macintosh, but one misconception that has persisted is the myth that Mac’s are incapable of using multi-button mice…
DashboardDeveloper launches a new community for developers of Mac OS X Tiger ‘widgets’
DashboardDeveloper is a new community for developers of “widgets”, mini-applications for Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger…
Are Apple’s ‘iPod’ and ‘Mac mini’ the razors or the blades?
More than a century ago, King Gillette invented both the safety razor and a new way of marketing consumer goods. Before Gillette…
Apple Computer maintained lead in visits to computer hardware sites in December 2004
Apple Computer Inc. maintained its lead in the number of unique visitors to computer hardware e-commerce sites for December…
Is going after ‘Joe Six Pack’ a mistake for Apple Computer?
The line outside Apple Computer Inc.’s new concept ‘mini’ store curved from the front door down the concourse and back toward the store’s entrance…
Wal-Mart to sell Apple iPod shuffle? Walmart.com music service is ‘temporarily unavailable’
Apple Computer has initiated a partnership with Wal-Mart that will soon see the iPod shuffle featured at Wal-Mart discount locations around the country…
Sony’s portable music player sales tumble in face of Apple’s iPod success
The Sony Corporation posted a steep rise in net profit on Thursday, helped by favorable tax effects, but the figure masked declines in sales…
Apple iPod’s ‘hybrid entertainment matrix’ turns listeners into ‘cyborgs’ via ‘technotranscendence’
Markus Giesler, a 28-year-old assistant professor of marketing at York University in Toronto, is fast becoming a bright light in high-tech consumer…
Report: Best Buy to sell Mac mini, could accelerate ‘iPod Halo Effect’
Best Buy may begin selling Macs again, which in turn could accelerate the iPod halo affect, according to a report released by Merill Lynch…
Associated Press: With Apple’s Mac mini ‘you could abandon Windows altogether’
The Mac mini is elegant, inexpensive without being cheap, and it’s not a magnet for the viruses, worms and other malicious software…
PC Magazine review: Apple’s iWork 3.5 out of 5 stars, ‘strong in typographic and visual features’
Apple’s new iWork ’05 application suite is a small but significant assault on Fort Microsoft. Though this new two-application office suite…
Another tantalizing clue of soon-to-be-released Apple PowerBook G5 found on Apple.com?
Is the PowerBook G5 near at hand? A tentative clue from Apple’s own website suggests that it might be…
Apple releases iMovie HD 5.01 Update
Apple today released iMovie HD 5.01 Update, available via Software Update, which addresses issues related to video and audio synchronization…
RUMOR: Apple Mac mini standard config with 512MB RAM standard coming soon?
If you’re contemplating a Mac mini purchase, stay tuned for at least one out-of-the-box config…
USA Today: the software loaded on Apple’s Mac Mini gets you more bang for your buck
Apple’s new Mac Mini is the least expensive Macintosh to date. As befits Apple’s heritage, this Mac defies conventions. It weighs just 2.9 pounds…
Wintel box assemblers keeping a close eye on Apple’s new Mac mini
Apple Computer isn’t the only company with big hopes for small computers. Rival PC makers are hoping Apple’s newly minted Mac Mini…
CBS News: Grab a new Apple Mac mini ‘and kiss the old Wintel machine goodbye’
What was the best thing at CES? Macworld! After a week in Las Vegas, at the Consumer Electronics Show, I had seen all there…
AppleWorks Users Group to support Apple’s new iWork suite
The AppleWorks User Group (AWUG) announced today that it would also support Apple’s new iWork suite. Future issues of AWUG’s flagship…
