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Month: December 2009

New U.S. TSA rules ban notebooks, Wi-Fi in final hour of flight

Monday, December 28, 2009 1:49 pm101 Comments

The US Transportation Security Administration late Sunday implemented new rules that are likely to have far-reaching implications…

Erstwhile ‘Mac cloner’ Psystar halts sales of Rebel EFI Mac cloning tool, will peddle Linux PCs

Monday, December 28, 2009 1:29 pm15 Comments

Mac clone maker Psystar last week indefinitely suspended sales of its only product…

Gov 2.0: Cities embrace iPhone apps

Monday, December 28, 2009 1:06 pm9 Comments

A host of larger U.S. cities from San Francisco to New York quietly have been releasing treasure troves…

Live in New York City? Want to buy an iPhone? Don’t try ordering one from AT&T’s Web site

Monday, December 28, 2009 12:29 pm10 Comments

AT&T, at least for now, won’t sell New Yorkers a new phone online, citing increased…

Cheng Uei Precision Industry wins Apple tablet connectors orders

Monday, December 28, 2009 10:54 am12 Comments

Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. has won orders to make connectors for Apple Inc.’s new Apple tablet…

Will Apple’s tablet run both Mac OS X and iPhone OS apps?

Monday, December 28, 2009 10:15 am29 Comments

With all the crystal-ball-watching over the seemingly imminent Apple tablet…

Broadpoint.AmTech boosts Apple price target to $260, says Apple ‘remains best tech co. on planet’

Monday, December 28, 2009 10:07 am5 Comments

Broadpoint.AmTech analyst Brian Marshall boosted his Apple Inc. (AAPL) target this morning to $260…

Weisel ups Apple estimates, raises price target to $250

Monday, December 28, 2009 10:00 am6 Comments

Thomas Weisel analyst Doug Reid this morning raised estimates on Apple (AAPL) after checking…

Apple looking to expand iWork’s online ‘cloud’ experience?

Monday, December 28, 2009 9:53 am10 Comments

A newly unearthed job posting suggests that Apple is looking to undertake a new project of grander scale…

Apple’s tablet computer: Expect the unexpected

Monday, December 28, 2009 9:44 am25 Comments

Tech’s chattering classes are obsessed with the unconfirmed product, which Apple may announce at an event in…

Apple iPods and educational apps have Minnesota students giddy about learning

Monday, December 28, 2009 9:27 am13 Comments

For fourth-grader Gabe Rivera, running vocabulary drills and solving mathematical problems on his classroom iPod touch…

Rumored Apple tablet launch was delayed until first-quarter 2010 over 10” glass panel strengthening

Monday, December 28, 2009 9:07 am10 Comments

Innolux, the panel-making subsidiary of the Foxconn Group, will be the initial supplier of touch panels for Apple’s tablet…

Magellan GPS launches new version of Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone and iPod touch

Monday, December 28, 2009 8:57 am1 Comment

Magellan GPS today announced availability of an upgraded version…

Apple’s App Store sees record breaking Christmas; destroys Android Market

Monday, December 28, 2009 8:45 am15 Comments

Apple rocked it this holiday season, and the early numbers are showing it…

Microsoft, Intel, rest of PC industry to cede tablet market to Apple?

Sunday, December 27, 2009 12:17 pm53 Comments

Apple brings out the tablet/media pad, wows consumers, sells a ton of units, Microsoft-Intel-HP-Dell follow suit with slavishly copied devices that don’t sell very well…

Apple Inc. owns iSlate.com

Friday, December 25, 2009 9:24 pm57 Comments

MacRumors has found evidence that Apple acquired the domain name iSlate.com presumably…

Apple shares hit new all-time high

Thursday, December 24, 2009 2:12 pm18 Comments

Apple Inc. shares reached their all-time high on Thursday as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet…

Is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer doomed? If so, Steve Jobs is partly to blame

Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:01 pm53 Comments

New data suggests that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still losing market share…

Microsoft’s Windows 7 release fails to dent Apple as planned corporate Mac sales hit new high

Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:22 am15 Comments

Windows 7 does not appear to be hurting Apple’s corporate Mac sales. Rather, planned Mac buying has hit a new high…

Report: Apple orders up 40-45 million five-megapixel cameras

Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:11 am16 Comments

CMOS image sensor orders for Apple’s iPhone devices are growing to 40-45 million units in 2010…

Newly revealed Apple patent app details dynamic Multi-Touch™ screen, gives users tactile feedback

Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:51 am25 Comments

Apple’s forthcoming tablet could employ a dynamic surface that gives users tactile feedback when typing…

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from MacDailyNews!

Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:00 am86 Comments

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

NY Times: Steve Jobs ‘extremely happy with new tablet’

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:10 pm51 Comments

Like almost all the people covering technology, I have no doubt that Apple will release a tablet…

FT: Apple to make ‘major product announcement’ on Tuesday, January 26

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 8:12 pm25 Comments

“Apple has rented a stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for…

eWeek’s Top 20 iPhone Apps of 2009

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 4:15 pm24 Comments

Apple’s App Store claimed explosive growth in 2009, with more than 100,000 applications…

Munster: Apple could sell 1.4 million $600 tablets in 2010

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 3:44 pm33 Comments

Apple’s tablet, which is expected to be unveiled in January, won’t be a huge growth driver…

Orange Telecom releases ‘iPhone in iPhone’ app (with video)

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:09 pm18 Comments

Ogmento has produced an augmented reality app to promote the launch of Apple’s iPhone in Israel…

RUMOR: Next-gen Apple iPhone to feature 5-megapixel camera

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:39 am29 Comments

The next iPhone will get an upgrade to a 5-megapixel camera, sources said on Wednesday…

RUMOR: Apple 7-inch ‘tablet’ 100% certain, expect january anouncement

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:18 am47 Comments

One of our very connected sources let us know that they’ve heard very solid information…

Android App Market splinters into fragments

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:33 am27 Comments

Google designed its mobile operating system, Android, so anyone could grab the code…

Yet another major Blackberry outage affects North America; iPhone users unaffected

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:17 pm40 Comments

BlackBerry users this afternoon have reported another outage affecting the smartphone…

RUMOR: Apple ‘tablet’ launch imminent

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 6:56 pm35 Comments

Apple is preparing an announcement next month that many anticipate will be the official unveiling of its tablet…

Court bans sale of Word, orders $290m fine after Microsoft found guilty of patent infringement

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 5:54 pm28 Comments

A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January…

Analysts say Apple TV intriguing as cable alternative

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 5:32 pm12 Comments

A published report Tuesday that Apple Inc. is ramping up a subscription-video service that could compete…

Nielsen’s Top 10 U.S. Mobile Phones in Use: Apple iPhone #1

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:16 pm7 Comments

Apple’s iPhone dominated the U.S. mobile device market…

Barclay’s analyst: iMacs, iPod touch unit sales likely to stronger-than-expected this quarter

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:04 pm3 Comments

Barclay’s Capital analyst Ben Reitzes thinks his estimate for Mac sales units to rise 22% this quarter could be low…

Obama appoints former Microsoft security chief new cybersecurity czar

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:53 pm145 Comments

It took seven months but Obama has finally found someone to take the cybersecurity czar job…

Judge dismisses class action lawsuit iMac screen defect lawsuit

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:27 pm6 Comments

A federal judge in New York has dismissed a class action lawsuit against Apple, reports say…

Google’s Android already a fragmented mess as it hits 16,000 apps mark

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:36 pmMonday, February 2, 201549 Comments

In Android fragmentation, applications written for one OS iteration may not run on others…

Apple getting ready to kneecap the cable industry?

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:21 pm46 Comments

The cable companies suck. All of them. Some suck less than others. But they all suck…

Newsweek: In 2010, Apple will launch tablet, Microsoft will oust Ballmer, and more

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:48 am56 Comments

Officially, Apple has never said a word about making a tablet computer. Yet for months…

Houston Chronicle: Monday’s update pushes Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac past VMWare’s Fusion 3

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:11 am13 Comments

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac now is a much better product. In its ongoing game of leapfrog with VMware, Parallels has taken the lead…

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