I’ve got a funny story this week. Some of you might recall that I told the story of my purchase of a gleaming new Apple iBook in last week’s column…
Month: August 2005
Apple pulls ‘Mac mini Test Drive’ promotion one day after launch
Apple has pulled their ‘Mac mini Test Drive’ promotion, one day after the promo launched yesterday…
NYT’s Pogue to record companies: it’d be idiotic to mess with Apple iTunes Music Store prices
The New York Times’ David Pogue writes of recent reports that the record companies – whose contracts with iTunes are coming…
Report: Apple’s Mac OS X running on AMD CPUs
Apple on x86 is a tempest in a teapot. People are way overblowing the impact of the beta release on not-even-close-to-final hardware…
Cincinnati Enquirer: Keys to choosing digital audio player
If you haven’t already been bitten by the urge for a digital audio player, don’t be surprised if you give in soon. The Consumer Electronics Association…
Virgin Digital UK to launch iTunes Music Store competitor on September 2
Virgin’s digital music service, Virgin Digital UK, launches on September 2…
Opera browser free for 24-hours to celebrate 10th anniversary
Opera is celebrating its tenth anniversary online by giving away free copies of the software…
ZDNet UK review gives Apple Mighty Mouse 6.6 out of 10
Like its namesake, the Apple Mighty Mouse packs a lot of ability into a small package. Although the design is decidedly simple, its four customisable…
Deal not final for Apple to finance Detroit school
No plan is in place for Apple Computer to finance a new technology high school in Detroit this fall, school officials said Tuesday…
What exactly do Windows PCs do better than Apple Macs?
Your friendly gadget columnist looks at a piece of hardware that make things easier in that corner of the high-tech universe where the Mac and PC meet…
Creative plans ‘very vigorous defense’ of iPod navigation patent
U.S. law is designed to encourage the maximum inventiveness. And although there has been a cornucopia of independent inventors…
Teenager explains how Apple iPod has grown into such a huge teenage phenomenon
It all started just a few years ago, with the original model back in 2001. Then came the popular, colorful mini version, which was soon…
Forbes: Motorola’s Apple iTunes phone may hold just 25 songs
For more than a year, Apple and Motorola’s plans to release an iTunes-enabled phone have tantalized the music and mobile phone businesses…
Report: .Mac updates imminent, Mac OS X 10.4.3 to pack ‘hundreds of fixes’
It appears Apple will soon update its .Mac internet services to include a handful of new features,” AppleInsider reports. “The company…
Apple launches ‘Mac mini Test Drive’ promo: try it for 30 days – full refund if you don’t love it
Apple today launched the “Test Drive a Mac mini” (try it for 30 days – send it back if you don’t love it) promotion in a show of confidence…
Does Apple’s Steve Jobs have more than just Motorola iTunes phone up his sleeve?
The rumor mills are buzzing about Apple this week, and today, one element that reared its head once again was the whole idea of a cell phone…
The Missing Sync for hiptop 2.0 released, supports Apple Mac OS X Tiger
Mark/Space has released The Missing Sync for hiptop 2.0 which synchronizes your contacts, calendar events and to-do information between
Tom’s Hardware: Apple 23” Cinema HD Display is ‘a magnificent monitor’
Apple Computer’s 23″ Cinema HD Display is a magnificent monitor, there’s just no other word for it. Few manufacturers are capable of putting out a product like this…
Creative explores new way to beat Apple iPod: patent litigation
While it struggles to compete with Apple in the marketplace, Creative is exploring a new avenue for dethroning the digital music king…
Microsoft stalling Trusted Computing best practices document so it won’t apply to Windows Vista?
The Trusted Computing Group is an industry consortium that’s trying to build more secure computers. It has a lot of members, although the board…
Apple in deal with Cingular to offer Motorola iTunes phone [UPDATED]
Apple Computer has reached an agreement with Cingular Wireless to offer a Motorola cellphone that will play songs from Apple’s…
After dropping Macs, Henrico officials work to protect students’ new Dells from viruses
Never in the history of Henrico County’s laptop program have the students’ Apple iBooks fallen victim to a fast-spreading virus or worm…
What will Steve Jobs unveil during Apple’s ‘special event’ on September 7th?
Apple Computer Inc. on Monday said it will announce a new product in early September and fanned expectations it will introduce…
Apple releases Safari version 2.0.1 for Mac OS X Tiger, Safari 1.3.1 for Mac OS X Panther
Apple today released Safari version 2.0.1 for Mac OS X Tiger via Software Update which, according to Apple’s notes improves website compatibility…
Apple announces ‘special event’ to be held September 7th
Apple has sent out invitations via email to selected media outlets announcing a special event on September 7, 2005…
Microsoft plays catch-up to Apple, looks to open branded retail store in NYC
Microsoft Corp. is on the prowl for a store in Times Square. The move would be the software giant’s first big stab at retail and may be an attempt…
Thurrott: Microsoft’s Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger
After years and years of waiting, we finally have a reasonably stable Windows Vista beta build to work with. Windows Vista Beta 1…
FileMaker Pro 8 released
FileMaker today announced the immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 8, the newest version of the most-awarded desktop database…
Creative ships Zen Neeon units packing Windows ‘Wullik’ worm
Looks like somebody turned off the virus scanner at the Creative production plant—it would appear that about 3,700 5GB Zen Neeons…
Will podcast-editing tools for GarageBand be next for Apple?
Apple Computer’s recent domination of the digital music environment provides a surprising example of the disadvantages of being first to market…
Nominations open September 1st for Illinois 2006 Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Nominations are open September 1 through December 1 for the 2006 Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching…
MTV excludes Mac users with free ‘Overdrive’ Broadband Video Channel
MTV Overdrive is a free Broadband Video Channel brought to you by MTV.com offering content such as…
Apple iTunes’ Party Shuffle algorithm revealed: how song ratings affect tracks’ play chances
iTunes’ available song ratings of 1 to 5 stars allow users to quickly find their favorites and help the Party Shuffle feature play more of what they like most…
Financial Times spits back Apple rivals’ company lines about so-called music format ‘confusion’
The iPod’s dominance in the portable digital music player market has some of Apple Computer’s key competitors singing the blues…
Apple brings hope to Detroit by funding ambitious new high school
Apple Computer is coming to the rescue of Detroit’s schoolchildren and, in doing so, may finally push Michigan to nuke its failed public…
PC Magazine: ‘Give us your thoughts on Windows’
PC Magazine is looking for readers to tell them what they think of Windows, past and present, and what they’d like to see in future versions…
iPod, iTunes, and iTunes Music Store competitors lack Apple’s ‘seamless integration and ease’
Apple iPod competitors are trying to compete by building in features, available to iPod users via third-party add-ons, such as…
Music lovers make Apple’s iTunes Music Store AAC format the de facto standard for online music
Experts think confusion over [conflicting formats between the major players in digital music] is hampering the conversion from sales…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs prepares for pivotal fight on digital music prices
Two and a half years after the music business lined up behind the Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs and hailed him and his iTunes…
Apple offers special deals on iPod, iMac G5, PowerBook, iBook, Power Mac G5, Mac mini and more
The Apple Store currently lists products on sale with savings on select new and unopened Apple products. All sale priced Apple products…
Steve Jobs’ Pixar receives ‘informal request for information’ from SEC
A media report revealed Friday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Committee launched an informal inquiry into Steve Jobs’ Pixar…
Freescale Semi to supply Apple Computer with PowerPC processors through 2008
Apple Computer Inc.’s transition to Intel Corp.’s microprocessors may not happen as fast as expected, as the computer maker on Friday…
