“The snow flurries ended, the sun went down and the temperature began to drop again…
Month: December 2007
Jonathan Ive to eventually succeed Steve Jobs as Apple CEO?
Could Jonathan Ive, the publicity-shy Essex boy who started his career designing toilets and combs…
Nokia wants Apple-style cut of handset revenues
Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile telephones, plans to imitate Apple…
Apple shares to hit $300 in 2008?
I had the chance to talk with four different British portfolio managers this past Friday…
BusinessWeek: Mind-reeling Apple forecasts not just hype
There’s a guessing game that goes on with Apple’s quarterly financial reports which goes something like this…
PowerMax offers 24-karat gold MacBook Pro models – with or without diamonds
PowerMax, an Apple Authorized Reseller is selling 24 Karat Gold MacBook Pro models…
Washington Post scribe complains of busy Apple retail stores
Whatever it is (Radio Shack for rich people? The Sharp-est Image?), the Apple Store isn’t what it used to be…
USA Today: Here’s why you might want to switch to Apple Mac
Judging by the questions I get, many would-be buyers are considering a Macintosh for the first time…
Apple Store, West 14th Street now open with free Pro and Open Labs
The Apple Store, West 14th Street, Apple’s largest store in Manhattan, is now open…
ChangeWave: Apple Mac poised to gain sizable market share in coming months
Apple’s Macintosh computers are poised to make sizable market share gains…
Adios, CompUSA: failed tech retailer bought out, to close all stores
CompUSA, the computer and gadget retailer controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim…
Beleaguered Napster declines after analyst downgrades, says products not being marketed
Shares of online music service operator Napster Inc. fell Friday after a Kaufman Bros…
MacMall holds ‘66 Hour Apple Sale’ – Save up to 22% on Apple Macs, iPods, more
MacMall has announced the return of their “66 Hour Apple Sale” with savings up to 22%…
Radiohead ends ‘In Rainbows’ experiment, enters into talks with Apple iTunes Store
Radiohead’s camp is in talks with Apple’s iTunes Music Store for the release of ‘In Rainbows’ …
Apple shares hit new all-time closing high
Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $4.3472, or 2.29% to close at $194.30 on volume of 37,711,719 shares to set a new all-time…
Cringely: Don’t hold your breath for Flash on Apple iPhone, iPod touch, coming Apple tablet
One product I believe WON’T be coming soon from Apple is a Flash plug-in for the iPhone…
Apple’s iPhone gaining ground as business tool
Mike de la Cruz, a senior vice president with German software giant SAP AG…
Energizer’s affordable Energi To Go provides portable power for Apple iPod
Energizer’s “Energi To Go” Portable Power for iPod is a battery-powered (it comes with two Energizer e2 Lithium AA batteries) charger…
Beleaguered Palm’s shares plunge on profit warning
Palm Inc. saw its share plunge to a new low Friday morning after the maker of smartphone wireless devices…
Apple’s huge new Manhattan retail store focuses on customer service before and after the sale
Apple stores give customers a place to feel and touch the products, and more importantly, talk to someone who knows the products intimately…
What should Apple do with its $15 billion (and rapidly growing) cash hoard?
Apple’s $15.4 billion stash is larger than IBM’s, Hewlett-Packard’s, Intel’s, and Google’s…
USTelematics integrates Apple iTunes music, movie, TV content into IPTV vehicle entertainment system
Integrates Apple iTunes with live mobile IPTV, Wi-Fi Internet hotspot, DVD, movies and computer games for passenger entertainment…
Unlocked iPhones pulled off Singapore shelves after Apple legal threat
According to Singapore retailers, Apple theatened to take leagl action against them for selling illegal…
Apple debuts new ‘Get A Mac’ ad: ‘Now What?’ (with video)
Apple has debuted their latest “Get a Mac” ad in which “PC” tries to hawk a new book called…
JAJAH releases version 2.0 of Apple iPhone calling application
JAJAH today released version 2.0 of its calling application for the Apple iPhone…
RUMOR: Apple prepping Mac Tablet and new iPhone
Apple is preparing a Mac Tablet and a new iPhone, according to rumors repeated…
ZDNet blogger irrationally blames Steve Jobs for Hollywood’s ‘DVD with iTunes version’ idea
It seems that Steve Jobs is looking for a new way to make money…
Forrester Research announces the death of Apple’s iTunes Store – again (Apple doesn’t need NBC)
Forrester Research seems to be working hard to publish the demise of iTunes…
CNBC: 3G iPhone due June 2008; Apple prepping new 50% thinner MacBook Pro; ups iPod touch production
CNBC is reporting that Apple’s new 3G iPhone to be out by June…
Pixelmator 1.1 Kitten released: a ‘Photoshop Lite’ Mac OS X image editor
The Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.1 Kitten, a significant update to the GPU-powered image editing tool…
The Financial Times tries spreading some Apple Mac security FUD
After years of relative safety, the Apple Mac is becoming an increasingly tempting target for malicious computer hackers…
Manhattan’s largest Apple Store, West 14th Street to open on Friday, December 7
Apple will open its newest retail store on West 14th Street in New York’s Meatpacking District on Friday…
Apple now worth triple Dell’s market value
On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he’d do if he was in charge of Apple…
Report: Apple’s iPhone 1.1.3 Update imminent, may feature voice recording, disk mode
Apple may be preparing a significant update for the iPhone as early as this weekend…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs named MarketWatch Readers’ Choice CEO of the Year 2007
MarketWatch readers have given an overwhelming thumbs up to Steve Jobs..
Bear Stearns raises estimates, price target on Apple based on strong MacBook, iPod sales
Bear Stearns analysts Andy Neff, Bill Hand and Ted Chung sent a note to clients today…
RBC Capital raises estimates on Apple based on ‘massive Mac momentum,’ European iPhone success
In a note to clients yesterday, analysts at RBC Capital Markets reiterated their…
The Apple Mac OS X Leopard Windows API Myth
Some ideas just won’t die. Proponents of the Mac OS X Leopard Windows API Myth…
Analyst: Apple’s European iPhone sales better than expected
Sales of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone in Europe are better than some investors thought…
Apple’s iWork grabs 16-percent of Mac office productivity application sales
According to NPD Group, Apple’s efforts with iWork have paid off…
Universal signs Nokia to offer subscribers one year of ‘free’ DRM-laden music
Nokia managers would never admit to being influenced by the Apple iPhone…
Youths who lost homes in California wildfires given iPods donated by Apple
“More than 100 high school students who lost homes in the October wildfires have received a surprise gift – iPods donated by Apple…