Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his design guru Jonathan Ive are in London. Jobs visited the Apple Store on London’s Regent Street yesterday…
Month: May 2005
Cut the cord with cordless iMuffs Bluetooth headset for Apple iPod and cell phone
Throw your iPod in your backpack and listen to your music wirelessly with iMuffs. No more cords to untangle or snag and powered by a rechargeable…
Intel CEO Otellini: If you want security now, buy a Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC
On Tuesday at the The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Paul Otellini, the new CEO of Intel, addressed security problems affecting the Wintel platform…
IBM, Sony and Toshiba to open ‘Cell’ processors; Apple PowerBook Cell?
IBM, Sony and Toshiba have vowed to open the specifications to the Cell processor to the world…
Mad as hell Windows PC security company finally just gives up, switches to Apple Mac OS X
This is my first column written on a Mac – ever. Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just obstinate…
Nokia announces new Linux based Internet Tablet
We are keeping a close eye on mobile phone makers lately, sniffing around for Apple-related news. From time to time…
Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2.7GHz vs Dell Xeon Dual 3.6GHz
Digital Media Online’s Charlie White’s article regarding reviewing the Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2.7GHz contains an aside about Mac OS X…
Merrill Lynch analyst: Apple Mac mini not moving at Best Buy
In its latest report on Apple, Merrill Lynch weighs in on today’s headlines regarding a possible iTunes video store and rumors that Apple might…
QuickTime 7 H.264 video debuts on Endorphin.com
Endorphin.com has posted two sample QuickTime 7 H.264 demo movies that can be played in full screen. The videos are standard definition…
Tech pundit Enderle: ‘The reasons for Apple working with Intel are becoming more powerful’
Rob Enderle, writing for TechnologyPundits.com, thinks the reasons for Apple considering working with Intel are becoming more powerful…
How Apple’s iTunes, iPod and the iTunes Music Store were born
Jobs explained to the crowd that had gathered at Apple headquarters for the iPod’s launch: ‘Why music? Well, we love music, and it’s always good to do something you love.’
Apple Computer debuts two-page Mac OS X Tiger print ad in Time Magazine (with image)
Apple Computer has debuted a two page Mac OS X Tiger advertisement in the new issue of Time Magazine…
The Detroit Free Press: Widgets, widgets, everywhere!
My computer desktop is filled with widgets. And if yours isn’t, I’m betting it soon will be…
Report: Apple Computer to open three retail stores in South Africa in 2005
Apple will open retail stores in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria, at undisclosed locations…
Philadelphia’s Central High adds 140 Apple Macs to new library
Nearly five years ago, Central High School’s alumni set out to raise $100,000 to give the school’s Barnwell Library fresh paint, carpeting…
RUMOR: Apple Tablet exists running ‘reduced version’ of Mac OS X
Rob Bushway, owner of Zoe Technologies, a firm specializing in web development and technology consulting, who also runs TabletBible.Com…
ZDNet review of Safari 2: ‘speed gains and unique new features push it to the head of the pack’
Long gone are the days when Apple CEO Steve Jobs got up in public and said that Internet Explorer was his Web browser of choice…
‘Mac OS X Technology Guide to Automator’ book now available
Automated Workflows, LLC has announced the availability of the “Mac OS X Technology Guide to Automator,” written by Benjamin S. Waldie…
Newer Tech debuts four new Apple Mac mini accessories
Other World Computing (OWC) and NewerTech now are offering four acrylic accessories for Apple Computer’s popular mini…
University of Melbourne’s Trinity college replaces Linux penguins with Apple Mac Tigers
Hope of Linux tackling the desktop market has suffered a reality check with the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College dumping the penguin…
OWC and NewerTech announce high-capacity replacement batteries for every PowerBook model
Other World Computing (OWC) and Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech) are proud to round out their complete line of replacement…
Analysts: No ‘Intel Inside’ stickers on Apple Macs anytime soon
Apple Computer customers shouldn’t expect to see ‘Intel Inside’ stickers slapped on the sides of their beloved Macs anytime soon…
Cell phone software will host the next epic battle between Apple vs. Microsoft
The next epic battle between computer industry archenemies Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp. won’t take place in the computer market…
Fetch 5 released for Mac OS X
Fetch Softworks announces that Fetch 5, the latest version of the most downloaded file transfer client for the Macintosh, is now available…
Did Apple plant ‘Intel Mac’ rumor to send IBM a message?
Reports of Apple Computer shifting to building its computers with Intel chips, moving away from using chips made by IBM and Freescale Semiconductor…
Analyst: Apple-Intel rumor ‘hogwash’ (today marks 11th month that Jobs’ promised 3GHz G5 is late)
Apple Computer is reportedly in talks with Intel about using the semiconductor giant’s processor chips in its MacIntosh computers…
Enderle: ‘If Intel gets Apple, it could make Intel look brilliant after the fact’
Word has it that Apple Computer is doing a little comparison shopping. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company, which has long…
Stocks extend rally on Apple-Intel report; Dow closes up 52 to 10,524; Nasdaq climbs 10 to 2,057
Surging technology shares prompted more buying on Wall Street Monday as investors welcomed analysts upgrades and Apple Computer Inc.’s reported…
Prudential: Apple iPod market expanding, iPod now holds 76% share of all U.S. portable music players
Prudential Financial Analyst Steven Fortuna has maintained his “overweight” rating on Apple with a target price of $55….
Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Yahoo music, iPod, cellphones, ‘Halo Effect,’ viruses and more
Addressing a range of other Apple-related issues in a give-and-take with Wall Street Journal columnists and conference hosts Walter S. Mossberg and Kara Swisher…
Apple shares rise on Intel Mac rumors
Stocks opened higher Monday as investors welcomed falling energy prices and a report that Apple Computer Inc. was talking with…
Bio authors: Steve Jobs wants ‘to take back the computer business from Microsoft’
Steve Jobs has a way of making outlandish dreams come true, according to Jeffrey Young and William Simon, co-authors of…
Author of ‘The Second Coming of Steve Jobs’ Alan Deutschman reviews Steve Jobs ‘iCon’ bio
I felt disturbed reading the brief prologue of ‘iCon,’ with its play-by-play of the crazed reaction of the crowd at the January 2000 Macworld convention…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs demos iTunes 4.9, due within 60 days, includes podcast support
At the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference, Steve Jobs tonight showed ipodder-like features in the next release of iTunes, supposedly…
Apple said to be considering switch to Intel chips for Macs according to Wall Street Journal
Apple Computer Inc. has been in talks that could lead to a decision soon to use Intel Corp. chips in its Macintosh computer line, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday…
Wayne State University school newspaper: Mac users get ‘the shorter end of the iStick’
Several years ago, with the advent of the iPod and clever marketing campaigns, Apple was known as the little engine that could…
QuickTime 7 coming soon to BBC Motion Gallery, searchable with Mac OS X Tiger Spotlight
Something big is coming to the BBC Motion gallery…
Apple offers special sale prices on 20-inch iMac G5 1.8GHz, Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz
The Apple Store currently lists products on sale with savings on select new and unopened Apple products. All sale priced Apple products…
New York Posts looks at possibility of Apple ‘iPod video’ player
Is Apple readying an iPod video player that could hit store shelves by next holiday season? Tech Web sites are buzzing with reasons…
U2’s Bono: Apple ‘more creative than a lot of people in rock bands, lead singer is Steve Jobs’
Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune music critic, has conducted an interview with U2’s Bono that touches on the subjects of Apple, iPod, and Steve Jobs…
Will Microsoft try to ‘netscape’ Google with Windows Longhorn and would it work?
Not long ago, I went to Washington for a dinner given by a friend. She wanted to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the end of the Microsoft…
Windows Sober.p poised to attack this Monday; Macintosh unaffected
Monday may be a very bad day, a security researcher said Friday as he warned that the aggressive Sober worm of early May is timed…