Until recently, Bill Gates has been viewed as the villain of the tech world, while his archrival, Steve Jobs, enjoys an almost saintly reputation…
Month: January 2006
NY Times: Apple’s new Intel-based Macs will get faster and be able to run Windows software
Apple’s switch to Intel chips for its Macintosh computers has arrived, six months ahead of schedule…
Analysts: It’s unlikely that Steve Jobs would abandon Apple; ‘it’s his heart and soul’
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going Hollywood, as the single biggest shareholder of the most iconic of Hollywood studios: Disney…
New Tunevision site tracks TV show additions to Apple’s iTunes Store
Tunevision is a new blog where I’ll be keeping track of the latest developments concerning TV shows within the iTunes Music Store…
SmartMoney: The new ‘King of All Media’ is Apple’s Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the larger-than-life chief executive of Pixar — and, by the way, a little company called Apple Computer — just inked a sweetheart deal…
Apple adds 10 Disney classic short films to U.S. iTunes Music Store
Apple has added ten Disney short films which roll back the clock 70 years with Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and the rest of the gang….
2006 shaping up to be banner year for digital media business, thanks to Apple Computer
Events at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this month indicate 2006 is shaping up to be a banner year…
Steve Jobs, Bob Iger appear live on CNBC
CNBC conducted a live interview with Apple CEO and soon-to-be new Disney Board of Directors member Steve Jobs…
It’s official: Disney acquires Pixar for $7.4 billion, Steve Jobs joins Disney Board of Directors
Furthering its strategy of delivering outstanding creative content, Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company…
‘Life In The Office’ to give contest winner every episode of “The Office” from Apple’s iTunes Store
For the next two weeks, anyone who signs up for the “Life In The Office” (LITO) free email alerts will be entered into a drawing to win every episode…
Apple adds TV shows to USA iTunes Store
Apple has added new TV show content to their iTunes Music (and video) Store….
Fortune: Steve Jobs, model CEO for the 21st century, master of the art of disruption
The master of disruption is at it again. With his two remarkable companies — Apple Computer and animated movie house Pixar — dominating the headlines…
Thurrott posts pictures of his new Apple iMac Core Duo
Windows-centric Technology writer Paul Thurrott’s new iMac Core Duo 2Ghz 20-inch (1GB RAM) has arrived and he’s posted pictures…
Apple expands free, hosted ‘iTunes U’ service for colleges and universities
Apple’s iTunes U has expanded, now offering not only a Stanford iTunes store, but also content for other universities…
Sharing videos with iTunes 6.0.2
macosxhints offers a brief piece on sharing videos with iTunes 6.0.2…
Universal Binaries and Intel-compatible Mac applications list
The programs listed on MacInTouch have been released – or promised – in “Universal Binary” versions compatible with both PowerPC- and Intel-based Mac…
Apple’s in the best position to lead Americans into digital living room
If digital media is to become as much a part of the American living room as the couch and the TV, it may take Apple Computer to get us there…
Microsoft aims to beat Apple in race to living room; an opportunity bigger than Windows
When Microsoft invested a cool $1 billion in Comcast more than eight years ago, Chairman Bill Gates talked up a grand vision for a world of connected PCs and TVs…
Growing reward pot awaits first person to get Windows XP running on Intel-based Mac
My MacBook is shipping on the 15th of February. I told my boss that this would replace my IBM desktop and I could boot Windows XP on it…
Grand Opening Month for new UK Apple Store Brent Cross begins this Saturday
London’s second Apple retail store will open at the Brent Cross Shopping Centre on Saturday January 28th at 9am…
Happy 22nd Birthday, Apple Macintosh!
On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous “1984” commercial. The voice-over intoned…
Report: Disney buys Pixar for approx. $7 billion, Steve Jobs to become Disney’s largest shareholder
The merger of high tech and entertainment seems to have arrived. At an all-day meeting on Jan. 23, Walt Disney’s board of directors agreed to buy Steve Jobs’s Pixar…
Why did the world’s last great computer co. (Apple) marry the world’s slowest chip co. (Intel)?
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. But when the world’s last great computer company decided to tie its fortunes to the world’s slowest chip company..
Sony advises: Do not use Sony Connect software, music application causes ‘major problems’
Sony is advising consumers not to use software supplied with its new range of digital music players after hundreds of users complained…
Apple iWork passes Corel to become distant No. 2 in U.S. retail sales to Microsoft Office
Corel bills its WordPerfect Office software as ‘the world’s leading alternative to Microsoft Office.’ But when it comes to U.S. retail sales…
AOL exec claims ‘artists aren’t happy, publishers aren’t happy’ with Apple’s iTunes
The largest share of last year’s $1.1 billion (euro900 million) in digital music sales — which increased threefold from 2004…
LANDesk Exec: Apple Macintosh has now crossed two of the three barriers to enterprise computing
Macintosh has now ‘crossed two of the three barriers to enterprise computing,’ says Scott Parkin, a product manager at LANDesk Group Ltd. in South Jordan, Utah…
Shakeout looms for bevy of Apple iTunes Music Store also-rans
The music industry’s annual conference is abuzz with the success of legal download services such as Apple iTunes, but some participants…
Enderle ‘deeply disappointed’ at Apple’s Macworld Expo announcments
I was secretly looking forward to Apple’s announcements at MacWorld; I have to admit, I was deeply disappointed…
Adobe releases Camera Raw 3.3
The camera raw functionality in Adobe Photoshop software provides fast and easy access within Photoshop to the “raw” image formats…
Nielsen NetRatings: Apple iTunes Music Store visits grew 241% in 2005
The popularity of Apple’s iPod has given a huge boost to the number of people visiting the iTunes music store, research shows…
Apple’s video iTunes triggered online video ‘Big Bang’
The momentum Apple created when it announced last year that it would sell videos online through iTunes continues into 2006…
Can Apple’s iPod prompt fixes to Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
Apple Computer’s video iPod may not be the first portable movie player, but it is by far the best…
Flawed CNET review pans Apple’s iMac Core Duo with 7 out of 10 rating
Native software support is the crux of the issue for the iMac Core Duo…
Adding TV shows to Apple’s iPod as smooth as ‘butter’
Watching television on a 2 1/2 -inch video screen seems as strangely satisfying to me as watching shows on a 61-inch screen…
EMI Music Chairman: Music subscription services like Napster and Rhapsody haven’t beeen huge
Nobody said it was easy for EMI, the world’s third-largest record company and the home of Coldplay, as the music industry has weathered…
Steven P. Jobs, Pixar, and Disney: how would Apple be affected?
The calculus of the Walt Disney Company buying Pixar Animation Studios is, on its face, simple: big media conglomerate plus vaunted computer animation studio plus closer ties with Steven P. Jobs,…
Washington Post: Wait a month or so before buying Apple’s appealing new Intel-based iMac
The extraordinary thing about Apple’s new iMac is how ordinary it is to operate… the iMac’s strikingly stylish contours hide an Intel Core Duo processor…
Apple the most popular brand in U.S. and Canada; close second to Google in global contest
Apple is the most popular brand in the U.S. and Canada, according to brandchannel.com’s 2005 Readers Choice Awards…
Report: Pixar board to approve Disney takeover Monday
The board of Pixar Animation Studios, the digital animations company, is set to meet [Monday] to approve the company’s $7bn takeover…
AP: Google Video Store not ready for prime time, doesn’t compare well to Apple’s iTunes Store
When a high-tech company slaps the word ‘beta’ on a product, it’s usually a sign it isn’t quite ready for prime time…
Apple’s Intel-powered iMac provides a smooth transistion from PowerPC
Here’s the best thing I can say after trying out Apple’s new iMac computer with an Intel processor: I didn’t notice much difference from Apple’s previous iMacs…
