Industry watchers have noticed a “halo” surrounding Apple Computer’s iPod: The popular music player is helping to bring new users to the company’s Mac…
Month: July 2005
Analyst: Hewlett-Packard may want to make their own MP3 music players
Consumer electronics industry analyst Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, said HP may want to make MP3 music players of its own…
Judge shuts down 63,000 Apple iBooks for Cobb County students
Superior Court Judge S. Lark Ingram ordered an immediate halt to a groundbreaking laptop computer program Friday because school leaders…
Report: Hewlett-Packard to stop reselling Apple iPods by September [UPDATED]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) will stop reselling all models Apple iPods portable music player, the Wall Street Journal is reporting…
The next big thing? Apple’s iTunes 4.9 supports Video Podcasts (with example)
Video Podcasts are available via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Is this the next big thing for iTunes? It is supported in iTunes 4.9…
The next big thing? Apple’s iTunes 4.9 supports Video Podcasts (with example)
Video Podcasts are available via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Is this the next big thing for iTunes? It is supported in iTunes 4.9…
Synaptics plunges on ‘lower visibility’ in hard drive MP3 players, pulls Apple down with it
Synaptics Inc. highlighted a generally down day in the tech sector, as the maker to computer touchpad technology shares slumped…
Report: Apple to sell Apple logo merchandise in retail stores before start of holiday season
Expect Apple to clear out a tiny space in their retail stores to sell Apple logo merchandise before the holiday buying season begins…
Apple preps Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger Update for September release
Apple Computer this week began asking its developers to test and report back to the company on the first external pre-release build…
Microsoft executives acknowledge Apple’s ‘iPod Halo Effect’
Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, made a concerted effort yesterday to persuade Wall Street analysts…
MaxUpgrades announces MaxConnect Lite, internal storage expansion assembly for Apple Power Mac G5
MaxUpgrades announces availability of MaxConnect Lite, a CPU Bay internal storage expansion assembly for G5 Power Macs. MaxConnect Lite…
Twentieth Century Fox joins Apple, Dell, HP, others to support Blu-ray Disc format
Twentieth Century Fox, a member of the Board of Directors of the Blu-ray Disc Association since October 2004, announced today…
Can Apple Computer beat Microsoft to win the DRM race?
In an industry as young as DRM, heavy hitters ranging from Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to RSA Security Inc. are duking…
Fortune’s Lewis: ‘Apple Computer’s sleek iMac G5 my top choice for a student desktop computer’
Laptop computers have many advantages for most students, but desktop systems make much more sense for science, engineering…
Rio MP3 player business sold to Apple iPod shuffle chip maker SigmaTel
D&M Holdings Inc. announced today it has signed an agreement to sell certain intellectual property and other technology assets of the Rio MP3 player business…
NY Times: Apple has just mainstreamed podcasting and put another feather iPod’s cap
Ever since Steven P. Jobs returned to Apple Computer in 1997 after a 12-year absence, his company has thrived by executing the same essential formula…
Fortune: Windows or Mac? Mac better suited to those ‘likely to wind up working at Starbucks anyway’
In Fortune Magazine’s article “What’s Cool for School?” Peter Lewis asks, “Windows or Mac?”
Get free Apple iTunes songs just for trying on Gap jeans from August 8–31
There is something about your favorite jeans and your favorite music that always feels right together. Gap recognized this relationship…
Supreme Court of Canada: No levy on Apple iPods
The fight over a levy on iPods and other digital music devices ended Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further…
Can Apple’s Mac really slay the Microsoft Windows giant?
How does a dominant company go from master of the market to irrelevant niche player? The example generally proffered at this point is Ford and GM…
The difference between Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows is how they treat their users
In the battle for the computer market share between Apple Computer and Microsoft , clearly Microsoft has come out on top…
Apple’s Mac OS X system is incredibly secure out of the box; three tips to make it even more secure
With its foundation deeply buried in UNIX, the Mac OS X system is incredibly secure. Even out of the box, this system comes to you in a very secure state…
Microsoft’s Windows ‘Vista’ too little, too late; could be rough times ahead for Redmond
This is probably the worst time in the history of desktop computing for Microsoft to deliver too little, too late…
Report: Motorola Apple iTunes phone to debut in UK on August 20th
Motorola and Apple have finally agreed on a stage to raise the curtain on the much-anticipated iTunes phone. The iPod-inspired music phone…
Henrico moves $50 Apple iBook sale to Richmond International Raceway due overwhelming demand
One man says he’s flying from California to buy a $50 laptop, and a story about a group of Germans hopping the pond has circulated…
One Cobb County Apple iBook audit expected to finish soon
A New York-based firm auditing the bidding process of Cobb County’s controversial laptop computer program is expected to finish its field work…
Apple Computer and The Beatles’ AppleCorp should stop fighting in court and work together instead
The first time I heard that the Beatles’ AppleCorp had sued Apple Computer, Inc. back in 1981 over the ‘Apple’ name, it stung…
More on tossing Windows PCs because of incurable spyware, adware, virus infections
Here at the Bleeding Edge Centre for the Study of Computer-Induced Unwellness, we are no strangers to the extraordinary responses…
Report: Apple and Gap soon to team on iTunes Music Store promo
Apple Computer and clothing retailer the Gap are preparing to kick-off a promotion that will offer Gap customers free iTunes songs…
Apple Mac users have no fear of viruses, worms due to use of superior technology
I have no fear of viruses, worms or trojans infecting our computers at all. No, not all of the family members are computer geeks…
Windows users’ questions and concerns answered about Windows to Mac switch
The Mac is fashionable again, but I still hear a lot of arguments from Windows users afraid to make the switch. Here are some of those…
Arizona wins $3 billion Intel plant
Months of fine-tuning construction plans and five years of trying to change state tax laws paid off Monday when Intel Corp. announced…
BusinessWeek: Think Apple’s developing ‘Video iPod?’ – Think Different
The rumor mill has been buzzing of late with word of a new kind of iPod — one capable of playing videos. And that has Apple watchers…
Thurrott: Sony Network Walkman is abysmal, get ‘near perfect’ Apple iPod shuffle instead
When Apple Computer’s iPod soared to prominence a few years ago, I predicted that it was only a matter of time before the competition…
Russound announces multiroom audio systems connectivity solutions for Apple iPod
Russound today revealed their iPod friendly solutions for listening to music outside the pod. With more than 35 million iPods to be shipped…
Napster, Samsung join forces with XM Satellite Radio
Napster and XM Satellite Radio today announced a long-term, strategic partnership that will take the digital music experience to new…
Apple announces 30,000 iBooks deal with Florida’s Broward County Public Schools
Apple today announced that it will supply 30,000 new iBook G4s to Broward County Public Schools for use by all of its students in kindergarten through twelfth grade…
iTunes Music Store Japan? Apple to hold ‘special music event’ in Tokyo on August 4
Apple Computer, Japan sent out invitations on Tuesday to select journalists inviting them to a special music event in Tokyo. The event…
Apple’s ‘pure genius’ will soon make iTunes’ portal the ‘number one destination on the Internet’
The browser wars are over. Moz doesn’t matter. IE is irrelevant. Opera is doing a swan song. Why? In a word, iTunes. And the implications…
Apple releases iPhoto 5.0.4 Update
Apple today released iPhoto 5.0.4 Update which is recommended for all customers using iPhoto…
Multibooting Intel-based Macs – a step-by-step how-to guide
In this guide we’ll take you through installing multiple operating systems on the Intel based Developer Macintosh machine…
The history of Apple’s iPod
Tony Fadell, former employee of General Magic and Phillips, envisioned a brand new MP3 player. Unlike the bulky flash memory based…
