Archives: October 2005
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Thurrott: ‘I’m super impressed with Apple’s iPod video, looks great blasted out to large TV set’
I’ve been playing with a new iPod with video, the Apple Universal Dock, and the new Apple Remote for the past week…
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Consumer Reports: Apple’s new iPod screens scratch-prone like iPod nanos
Just weeks after it introduced the incomparably tiny Nano, Apple has put its high-capacity players, too, on a crash diet…
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PC Magazine: Apple Airport wireless routers receive this year’s highest overall rating score
Home networking routers connect to a broadband modem and provide a hardware firewall against outside hackers…
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Has Apple’s Steve Jobs saved network television or simply helped hasten its death?
You see – there’s a secret in the television industry…
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Why in Jobs’ name doesn’t Apple advertise the Macintosh?
What is more troubling than the businesses who want to sell a ton of merchandise during the holiday quarter are the businesses who seemingly…
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Advice for parents: protecting against iPod porn
It’s not ‘dirty books’ that parents will be confiscating in the future, it’s an iPod Video packed with porn clips downloaded from the web…
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Podner will reformat your movie collection for Apple iPod and iTunes
Wondering how to make the most of the new iPod – the one that plays movies and music videos?
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Mac users need not apply (online for jobs at a number of large companies)
When it comes to some big-name companies, Macintosh users may have a tough time landing a job…
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TV network presidents see no threat from Apple video iTunes+iPod
In the wake of Apple Computer Inc.’s unveiling of its new video iPod, the presidents of the six broadcast networks said Wednesday…
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With recent PowerPC announcements, why the heck did Apple decide to switch to Intel?
There have been a few recent PowerPC announcements that have caused the Mac Faithful to wonder anew about The Switch…
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PowerBoost: multi-party iChat AV video conferences possible from any G4-based Mac
Ecamm Network has released PowerBoost, a new shareware add-on for iChat AV 3 that makes multi-party conferences possible…
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BusinessWeek: Apple iPod+iTunes video marks new era for digital media
Nearly everyone who has had a chance to use Apple’s newest, video-enabled iPod has fallen in love at first sight, myself included. Like the original…
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TV Critic: Apple iPod video strikingly bright, crisp, very fluid; TV will have to reorient itself
When it comes to television screens, I confess to being a “size-matters” kind of guy who prefers living large. How large?
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Enderle: ‘2006 should be a very powerful year for Apple’
We are anticipating that many of Apple’s laptop products will simply no longer have an optical drive of any kind but instead will have a multiple format…
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Sony’s quarterly profit drops by nearly half
Sony Corp. said Thursday its profit in the latest quarter dropped by nearly half from a year ago, as electronics sales stayed flat, its movies…
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iPod nano ‘scratches’ lawsuit really only benefits attorneys
The only real beneficiaries of a class action over scratched screens on Apple’s tiny music player may be the attorneys…
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Apple releases Backup 3.0.1
Apple today released Backup 3.0.1 which addresses file restoration and other issues and is highly recommended…
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Analyst: Consumer electronics companies should fear Apple more than Microsoft
For the past few years, conventional wisdom has been that the one company the consumer electronics (CE) industry needed to fear most was Microsoft…
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U.S. federal judge scolds Microsoft over abandoned exclusive music demand
The federal judge overseeing Microsoft Corp.’s business practices scolded the company Wednesday over a proposal to force manufacturers…
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Report: Apple relaxes 5G iPod return policy; to include protective cases with future iPod nano units
In an effort to improve both customer satisfaction and the quality of its music players, Apple for a limited time will replace any fifth-generation…
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Whither the Apple iPod killers?
When Sony execs crowed a few weeks ago that their latest MP3 players were THE iPod Killers one thing was obvious. They were oblivious to the fact…
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Apple set to become huge force in music business; are iTunes users ‘locked in?’
It is a different world in the music industry now – the record companies, old-style CD retailers and everyone else who has ever…
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PC Magazine: Apple’s Steve Jobs’ new iPod+iTunes just saved the portable-media-center market
Take Steve Jobs (please!). Even when he comes late to market with a product, he claims he invented it…
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Thurrott: Apple iPod ‘the new standard by which all are measured – highly recommended’
For a company that’s known for its bold innovations, Apple Computer has moved slowly and cautiously into the realm of portable digital video…
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Why do you own a Mac?
Nearly 22 years ago, like the rest of the world, I first heard of the Mac and, like many, I was immediately smitten…
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