All of the major record labels besides EMI have steered clear of iTunes Plus in what seems to be an effort to boost…
Month: April 2008
Macgamestore releases Hoyle Casino 2008 as digital download
Macgamestore, in partnership with Encore Software, today announced the release of Hoyle Casino 2008…
Analysts’ consensus estimates for Apple Inc.
In preparation for Apple’s Q2 08 earnings and Q3 08 guidance (shudder!) here are the consensus estimates of analysts…
Toshiba sees 512GB SSDs; narrowing of price gap with HDs
Toshiba Semiconductor Company’s President Shozo Saito took the platform at the seminar hosted by IDEMA Japan…
RUMOR: Belgium soon to get unlocked Apple iPhone
Belgium has joined the ranks of countries that will soon receive the iPhone, according to…
Microsoft to shut down PlaysForSure DRM services, strand customers to existing PCs
“Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft’s now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision…
Jim Cramer: To today’s teens Apple Macs are computers; Windows PCs might as well be typewriters
TheStreet.com’s Jim Cramer explains why Apple’s products are unquestionably better when it comes to the teen market…
Apple buys microprocessor design company PA Semi for $278 million in cash
Apple has agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi…
PARC UI group manager discusses Apple’s breakthrough iPhone user interface
Designing a user interface for a mobile computer isn’t hard; all you have to do is think like a person…
Sony to acquire Gracenote for $260 million
Sony Corporation of America announced today that it has signed a merger agreement with Gracenote, Inc…
Apple grabs 8 product nominations in coveted D&AD 2008 awards
D&AD has announced the interim results of Awards 2008 judging. This year, 691 entries from 35 countries have been recognised…
Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.5.3 build 9D23 to developers
Just days after privately releasing Mac OS X 10.5.3 build 9D22 to its vast developer community…
Second Gear releases Today 1.0 for iCal users
Second Gear has released Today 1.0, a new Mac OS X application for managing iCal events and tasks…
Apple Macs, iPods give Rolling Stones satisfaction
Richard Kerris, the chief technical officer of Lucasfilm, was also technical adviser to the last two Rolling Stones…
Apple iPhones sell out in UK following price cut
The decision to cut £100 off the cost of the iPhone on Wednesday has boosted sales, with O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores…
The Ratings Game: Apple shares slide as AmTech analyst cuts rating to ‘Neutral’
While much of the tech sector has struggled during the last quarter, Apple Inc. has seen its shares quietly rise more than 45% over the last two months…
APC Magazine: Apple Time Capsule is world’s easiest backup system
Apple’s Time Capsule combines a 3-port gigabit router, USB file and print server, dual-band wireless access point and 1TB NAS appliance…
Apple looks toward iPhone chat app
At its iPhone SDK event last month, Apple touted an adaption of AOL’s instant-messaging client for the iPhone…
Apple down after AmTech Research analyst Shaw Wu cuts Apple rating
Apple Inc. after American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu…
Apple releases Aperture editing plug-ins, SDK
On the same day that Apple posted the Software Development Kit (SDK) that third-party developers can use to create image…
Apple opens first store-within-a-store in China
Apple’s first store-in-store in mainland China has been unveiled…
The Pixar Story with Steve Jobs interview airs on Starz tonight
Set your TiVos! Tonight, April 22, at 10-11:30pm, Starz will air “The Pixar Story.”
AT&T profit expands more than 20%; Gains net 1.3 million wireless customers
AT&T Inc. on Tuesday reported first-quarter earnings jumped 22%, as the giant phone company added 1.3 million…
Lehman Brothers starts coverage of Apple with $195 price target
Lehman Brothers has initiated coverage of Apple with an overweight rating and a $195 price target citing sales…
Poll:If Apple’s Mac OS X was available on non-proprietary hardware, would you ditch Windows, Macs?
With the whole Pystar fiasco making headlines recently, Gizmodo is running an interesting poll regarding Apple’s Mac OS X…
Apple releases Firmware Restoration CD 1.7
Appel today released Firmware Restoration CD 1.7 which can restore the firmware of an Intel-based Macintosh computer…
Apple releases MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5.1
Apple today released MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5.1 which fixes several issues to improve…
RBC Capital ups Apple price target; expects company to exceed Street estimates
Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares rose $7.12, or 4.4%, to close at $168.16 after RBC Capital Markets…
Jim Cramer: Buy Apple; iPhone 2.0 huge, forthcoming ‘Conversation’ product to have iPod-like impact
Buy Apple (AAPL), Jim Cramer said on CNBC’s ‘Stop Trading!’ segment Monday…
InfoWorld: More demand Macs in the enterprise; how IT can embrace Apple’s growing platform
More users are demanding Macs in the enterprise. Thanks to key computing shifts, supporting their appetite…
Windows PC developer converts to Apple’s Mac OS X
I got my first PC in 1997. It was a Dell Pentium II with Windows 95. I got it because I was interested in computers…
Report: Next-gen Apple iPhone coming to Italy without carrier exclusivity
iPhone is coming shortly to Telecom Italia without a revenue sharing deal and without long-term exclusivity…
Enderle: The race to copy Apple will forever change, dramatically improve wide variety of products
Through its success in recent years, Apple has set the bar high for consumer devices…
Wired’s Kahney tries to get inside Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ brain
Probably no figure in Silicon Valley history has inspired more curiosity or attained a greater mythical status…
Citigroup raises Apple EPS estimates to new Street high
Citigroup is raising their estimates on Apple (AAPL) to a new Street high…
Report: Next-gen Apple iPhone to be ‘radically different,’ Apple may forgo exclusive carrier deals
Times Online understands that Apple has placed an order with its Asian suppliers to produce 200,000 of the new…
PayPal: We won’t block Safari users
PayPal, the online payment system owned by eBay, will prevent people who use older Web browsers…
Goldman Sachs raises Apple estimates, price target
Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey yesterday raised his target price on Apple (AAPL) from $175 to…
Caris ups Apple estimates, expects Q2 08 results to beat Street
Caris & Co.’s Shebly Seyrafi believes that is likely to beat expectations for the quarter…
BusySync 2.0 released; adds ability to sync Apple iCal with Google Calendar
BusyMac has released BusySync 2.0 which allows you to sync iCal with Google Calendar, in addition to syncing iCal…
Orbino debuts Arista, handcrafted messenger case for Apple MacBook Air starting at US$349
Orbino, makers of Italian premium technology cases, announced today that it has launched Arista, the handcrafted case for Apple’s MacBook Air…
Macs, iPhones to be focus of Apple earnings report
Apple Inc.’s outlook for iPhone sales and the ability to exceed its own earnings forecast will be under scrutiny…