“Best Buy, North America’s largest consumer electronics retailer, and Apple are flogging the new MacBook units…
Month: May 2006
The unmitigated disaster story of Sony Connect
Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company’s consumer electronics divisions…
Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate 2 for Mac
Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate 2 for Mac is not simply a “dual-boot” solution; rather, it provides the ability to use…
Apple releases SuperDrive Firmware Update v2.0
Apple today released SuperDrive Firmware Update v2.0 which fixes burning speeds…
Thurrott: Look at Apple’s MacBook and ‘you might just find your perfect notebook’
Like its high-end MacBook Pro brethren, the MacBook features a widescreen display (13″ in this case, at a resolution of 1280 x 800)…
Apple releases QuickTime 7.1.1
Apple today released QuickTime 7.1.1 which addresses an issue with 3rd party start-up items on Intel Macs…
2006 PC World World Class Awards Hardware Company of the Year: Apple Computer
PC World today announced the winners of its annual World Class Awards…
The Channel Insider: Dell is no Apple
Instead of investing in the channel, the area most likely to produce sales growth, the vendor is trying to be Apple…
Mafiasoft launches Windows protection racket
Security software makers, the 800-pound gorilla has landed. Microsoft Corp. was to announce Wednesday…
Microsoft CEO Ballmer defends “Microsoft’s ‘first-class problem’ of having too much cash
Under pressure from Microsoft Corp. investors to return a portion of the company’s $35 billion cash reserve…
Gisele Bündchen to star in Apple Mac campaign?
Brazilian-model Gisele Bündchen has recently posed for Apple Computer, Inc. to represent their Macintosh computer line…
The 10 best Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets
Little attention has really been given to Widgets since Apple made them the ‘in-thing’ in operating systems…
MTV agrees to licensing deal for MP3 and MP4 portable media players (with images)
Mini Media Europe Limited, a leading manufacturer and distributor of consumer electronics products, has signed a long-term…
Mindjet brings MindManager 6 Software to Apple’s Mac OS X
Mindjet Corporation, the leading provider of productivity software for visualizing and managing information, today announced…
Apple launches free computer take-back program
Apple today announced the launch of its free computer take-back program, offering US customers…
Judge uses Wikipedia as source to blast Apple in ‘Asteroid’ case
Californian appeals court Judge Conrad Rushing has put the public interest above private corporate…
Mozilla launches Firefox 2.0 Alpha
Bon Echo Alpha 3 is the third developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by…
Report: Apple punishes Samsung for iPod gaffe, SigmaTel may benefit
After an apparent ‘gaffe’ by an executive from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Apple Computer Inc. has reportedly ‘punished’ the South Korean…
RUMOR: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to feature virtualization, ‘living interface elements’ and more
“In recent weeks, the core feature set and low-level changes to the Mac OS X codebase have been firmed up in preparation for focused efforts to produce…
Stocks fall on oil, Wal-Mart and confidence data; Apple shares drop $2.33
Stocks snapped their three-session win streak in dramatic fashion, starting the abbreviated trading week on a negative note…
FCC Commissioner backs Net Neutrality
Adobe sentences GoLive to death
During the Adobe Live event, Robert Raiola of Adobe Systems France said that Adobe will halt the development of Freehand and GoLive…
CNET writer won’t buy Apple MacBook because it lacks 2nd mouse button (uh, two-finger right-click?)
Apple’s new MacBooks, which are a baby step below the MacBook Pro line, are actually pretty sweet…
Apple recruiting team for ‘super secret’ videogames project?
Online reports are indicating that Apple is recruiting a team to work on a videogames project at the company, with former LucasArts…
Apple’s Fifth Avenue glass elevator traps group of customers
Not eight days after Apple’s new flagship store was unveiled, Stevie J.’s fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky…
Apple Store Perimeter to celebrate grand opening in Atlanta on June 3
Apple will hold a grand opening celebration for their newest retail store, Apple Store Perimeter… here
Microsoft debuts ‘Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac’ – first desktop designed exclusively for Mac users
Microsoft Corp.today announced the availability of the Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac, its first Mac-specific desktop…
Will Dell’s retail computer stores work sans inventory?
Dell Inc. has always prided itself on its online-only business model, the core component of a lean corporate structure that…
Pirillo critiques Windows Vista with long lists of mistakes
I spent a few hours with Windows Vista last night, per Jim Allchin’s request to send him feedback about what I discovered…
Dell offers Mac OS driver downloads?
Engadget has posted a graphic this morning of “Mac OS” appearing as a choice in the drop-down box on Dell’s driver downloads site…
Yet another ‘Apple iPod+iTunes limits choice, [insert name] will be strong competition’ article
Apple Computer is becoming the Microsoft of digital music, and that’s not a good thing for either consumers or the music industry…
How Apple iPod took over the world
Like thousands of others, I got an iPod nano for Christmas. It’s a gorgeous object…
Apple unveils new Pro site
Design, photography, music, film, motion graphics — unbound by discipline, creative pros..
RUMOR: Apple developing new low-cost LCD-based all-in-one eMac
Apple Computer is working feverishly on the design of a new Macintosh computer that the company hopes will strengthen…
NY Times: Price difference between Apple Mac and PC notebooks has shrunk
Columns providing advice on buying a computer usually have a paragraph or two where the writer pauses and briefly genuflects at Apple…
Apple releases iWeb 1.1.1 Update
Apple today released iWeb 1.1.1 which refines comment and search support for blogs and podcasts…
Apple loses ‘Asteroid’ appeal in California’s 6th District Court
“A California appeals court has smacked down Apple’s legal assault on bloggers and their sources, finding that the company’s…
Thurrott: ‘See, I told you Apple copies Microsoft’
Microsoft had a surprise visitor at its WinHEC trade show this week in Seattle. Several representatives from Apple Computer…
Call of Duty 2 ships for Intel- and PowerPC-based Apple Macs
Aspyr Media, Inc., today announced that Activision, Inc.’s popular WWII first-person action game, Call of Duty 2 has arrived in retail stores…
DivX releases DivX for Mac 6.5, including first DivX Player for Mac
DivX, Inc. has announced the release of DivX for Mac 6.5…
Apple Macs and viruses: Fact vs. FUD
2006 seems to be the year of Mac FUD… Fear, Uncertainty, and a new “D”- Disinformation…
PC Magazine: Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro: ‘offers virtually everything a user needs’
The MacBook Pro 17-inch, the second Apple branded notebook to receive Intel’s powerful Dual Core architecture…