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Month: October 2008

Recent legal ruling on design patents favors companies like Apple

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:49 pm8 Comments

According to Kelly Burris, an attorney with Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S…

Measuring Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ viral video response to Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ campaign

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:25 pm36 Comments

Microsoft has directly responded to Apple’s wildly successful ‘Get a Mac’ ads with the $300 million ‘I’m a PC’ campaign…

Apple’s 2008 earnings with full recognition for sales of iPhone and Apple TV

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:52 pm7 Comments

Now that Apple has reported its earnings for the full 2008 fiscal year, I think it’s important for investors…

Apple to debut new Mac Pro in January at Macworld Expo?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:39 pm32 Comments

Since I’m pretty sure that we’ll see an iMac and Mac mini update on Tuesday, Nov. 10…

Apple, other personal computer and hardware stocks surge in late trading

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:38 pm8 Comments

The largest PC and hardware stocks saw their shares surge in late trading Tuesday…

Apple iPhones are not a must-have for U.S. Congress – yet

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:06 pm16 Comments

Jordan Golson of the Industry Standard has debunked a report last week by TheHill.com…

Microsoft’s Windows monopoly beginning to erode

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:33 pm29 Comments

The Windows monopoly that has carried Microsoft since its inception is beginning to erode,

Software-based iPhone 3G unlocking gets closer to reality

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:10 pm14 Comments

An unlocked iPhone 3G is a little closer to becoming reality, according to the iPhone Dev Team…

Sonos introduces free Sonos Controller app for Apple iPhone, iPod touch

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:54 pm13 Comments

Sonos has introduced the Sonos Controller for iPhone as a free download on the iTunes App Store…

Obama’s billionaire supporters causing market turmoil to tilt election?  Stocks to play (AAPL #1)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:15 pm244 Comments

Market turmoil gets Barack Obama elected. He knows this and more importantly, so do his supporters…

Obama’s billionaire supporters causing market turmoil to tilt election?  Stocks to play (AAPL #1)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:15 pmNo Comments

Market turmoil gets Barack Obama elected. He knows this and more importantly, so do his supporters…

Rogers profits surge on ‘phenomenal’ iPhone sales

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 pm13 Comments

Rogers Communications Inc. posted an 84 percent spike in quarterly profit on robust sales of Apple’s iPhone…

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-bit right down to the kernel

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:34 am23 Comments

Build notes leaked on the web of a prerelease version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard indicate that the software…

PC Magazine reviews Air Sharing for Apple iPhone: Editor’s Choice

Monday, October 27, 2008 5:33 pm22 Comments

Air Sharing turns your iPhone into a networked drive that can wirelessly transfer files to and from your computers…

Apple releases iPhoto 7.1.5

Monday, October 27, 2008 4:44 pm9 Comments

Apple today released iPhoto 7.1.5 which improves the printing quality of…

Microsoft outspends Apple 9 to 1 in R&D, but what does Microsoft have to show for it?

Monday, October 27, 2008 4:27 pm47 Comments

The Baltimore Sun’s David Zeiler says that Apple’s TV ads that lampoon the amount of money Microsoft is spending…

Microsoft names their cloud computing product after a cloudless sky: Windows Azure

Monday, October 27, 2008 3:20 pm43 Comments

Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet…

Codeweavers’ software free for download on October 28 thanks to President George W. Bush

Monday, October 27, 2008 2:57 pm93 Comments

In July, CodeWeavers – whose software lets Mac OS X and Linux users run Windows programs without …

Google releases Google Earth for Apple iPhone and iPod touch (with video tour)

Monday, October 27, 2008 1:27 pm15 Comments

Even before we introduced Google Earth back in 2005, the team had long dreamed of being..

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard’s new Finder and much more ‘Cocoafied’

Monday, October 27, 2008 1:15 pm17 Comments

According to developer build notes leaked on the web, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard’s new Finder…

Mossberg reviews Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro: There are some potential trade-offs

Monday, October 27, 2008 11:30 am50 Comments

When Apple redesigned its laptops earlier this month, most of the attention, including mine…

iPods accounted for just 14.2% of Apple’s total revenue in fiscal Q4 08

Monday, October 27, 2008 10:25 am13 Comments

If someone were to tell investors two years ago that iPod sales would only contribute 14.2% of Apple’s total revenue…

Analyst: Apple could drop iPhone 3G 8GB to $99, triple sales, relegate BlackBerry to niche status

Monday, October 27, 2008 10:12 am36 Comments

Apple has the room to cut the price of the iPhone to where it could take command…

Netflix launches 2G Microsoft Silverlight-based media player with Mac support

Monday, October 27, 2008 9:40 am29 Comments

Netflix today announced it has begun the deployment of Microsoft Silverlight to “enhance” the instant…

Free Recycler app aims to make recycling fun and portable for Apple iPhone, iPod touch users

Monday, October 27, 2008 8:51 am11 Comments

Siavash Ghamaty has introduced “Recycler,” the first recycling-friendly iPhone/iPod touch application…

Apple is gaining rapidly on Microsoft; 75% vs. 9% YOY revenue growth

Monday, October 27, 2008 8:34 am22 Comments

This should keep Steve Ballmer up at night…

Serious security flaw found in Google’s Android phone OS

Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:02 am50 Comments

“Just days after the T-Mobile G1 smartphone went on the market, a group of security researchers…

Apple seeds iPhone Software 2.2 beta 2, iPhone SDK, Snow Leopard pre-release build

Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:54 pm27 Comments

iPhone Software 2.2 beta 2 is reported to have made its way to developers early friday afternoon alongside…

Apple releases Airport Extreme Update 2008-004

Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:44 am17 Comments

Apple has released Airport Extreme Update 2008-004 which is recommended for…

Leaked screenshots show iPhone 2.2 Beta has Street View in Google Maps

Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:42 am27 Comments

According to a post from an iPhone Developer post on the MacRumors forum, the rumors of Street View…

Apple patent watch: Mac OS X 10.6’s use of GPUs will make Snow Leopard purr

Friday, October 24, 2008 8:46 pm44 Comments

Rather than focusing on whizzy graphics and a fancy new interface for the Mac’s new operating system…

Apple donates $100,000 to fight same-sex marriage ban in California (Proposition 8)

Friday, October 24, 2008 3:20 pmWednesday, June 26, 2013382 Comments

Apple is contributing $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that would define…

Wall Street might still be missing the boat of Apple, but investors might want to climb aboard

Friday, October 24, 2008 3:08 pmNo Comments

I wrote back in April about how analysts were just ‘not getting’ Apple’s earnings. They were having a difficult time…

Wall Street is still missing AAPL’s boat, but investors don’t have to

Friday, October 24, 2008 3:08 pm12 Comments

Another quarter, another earnings report; however, this quarter’s earnings report was a bit special…

Needham analyst: $800 Apple Macbook would have been ‘value-destroying folly’

Friday, October 24, 2008 2:35 pm21 Comments

Had Apple succumb to calls from industry watchers to release a new MacBook at or below the $800 price point, it would have…

What’s Apple really worth?  Much more than Wall Street seems to realize

Friday, October 24, 2008 1:44 pm12 Comments

What’s Apple really worth? That’s the $150 billion question and the crux of a simmering debate…

What’s Apple really worth?  Much more than Wall Street seems to realize

Friday, October 24, 2008 1:44 pmNo Comments

What’s Apple really worth? That’s the $150 billion question and the crux of a simmering debate…

Smart business people choose Apple Macs

Friday, October 24, 2008 1:10 pm36 Comments

What today’s business people and entrepreneurs are quickly beginning to understand is that Apple’s…

50 man-hour MacBook Pro review with video and more

Friday, October 24, 2008 12:42 pm9 Comments

Apple’s newly redesigned 15″ MacBook Pro improves upon the graphics, RAM, and CPU performance…

The reports of Apple Mac mini’s death are greatly exaggerated

Friday, October 24, 2008 11:00 am28 Comments

With Apple’s recent ‘State of the Mac’ omitting any mention of the Mac mini and reports…

Replace Apple’s Mac OS X Finder: Path Finder 5 released

Friday, October 24, 2008 10:36 am17 Comments

Path Finder is an award-winning file browser and management application for Mac OS X…

Teen reportedly source of fake Steve Jobs heart attack rumor

Friday, October 24, 2008 10:10 am30 Comments

An 18-year-old posted the fake Internet report that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs…

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