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Best Buy now selling Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook, and iMac models

"Best Buy, North America's largest consumer electronics retailer, and Apple are flogging the new MacBook units... [Full Story]

The unmitigated disaster story of Sony Connect

Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

Apple releases SuperDrive Firmware Update v2.0

Apple today released SuperDrive Firmware Update v2.0 which fixes burning speeds... [Full Story]

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)... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

Mafiasoft launches Windows protection racket

Security software makers, the 800-pound gorilla has landed. Microsoft Corp. was to announce Wednesday... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

Apple launches free computer take-back program

Apple today announced the launch of its free computer take-back program, offering US customers... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

Mozilla launches Firefox 2.0 Alpha

Bon Echo Alpha 3 is the third developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

FCC Commissioner backs Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission has authority under current law to ensure that broadband access providers... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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 [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

How Apple iPod took over the world

Like thousands of others, I got an iPod nano for Christmas. It's a gorgeous object... [Full Story]

Apple unveils new Pro site

Design, photography, music, film, motion graphics — unbound by discipline, creative pros.. [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

Apple releases iWeb 1.1.1 Update

Apple today released iWeb 1.1.1 which refines comment and search support for blogs and podcasts... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

Apple Macs and viruses: Fact vs. FUD

2006 seems to be the year of Mac FUD... Fear, Uncertainty, and a new “D"- Disinformation... [Full Story]

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... [Full Story]

Business 2.0’s 100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies: Apple Computer #3

To find the 100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies, Business 2.0 screened more than 2,000 tech companies that have been publicly traded... [Full Story]

Symantec Antivirus software flaw allows hackers to seize control of PCs without user interaction

Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies... [Full Story]

DMSoftware Canada ships Textureshop 1.0 for Mac OS X

DMSoftware Canada today announced Textureshop 1.0, a seamless image generator and editor for Macintosh OS X 10.2... [Full Story]

CrossOver Office for Intel-based Apple Macs hits Alpha

CrossOver Office for Intel Macs has hit alpha 1, and has been made availible for limited public testing. It comes as a standard... [Full Story]

Adobe CS3 sneak peek shown on Apple MacBook Pro as Universal Binary application

We got a sneak peek at InDesign CS3 today in a private press briefing. InDesign CS3 is not slated for release until Q2 of 2007... [Full Story]

The Motley Fool: Apple Computer shares are cheap right now

How do you value a company that just seems to "get it"? That's my dilemma with Apple On Tuesday, the Mac maker teamed up with Nike... [Full Story]

World’s Largest iPod (with photo)

Visitors walking down Third St. have been gawking at this thing for the past couple of days. The 25 ft. iPod is attached... [Full Story]

Plastic packing strip blocking airflow on hot MacBooks?

Anyone who's given a PowerBook, MacBook, or MacBook Pro a good look probably knows how the ventilation system works... [Full Story]

Which is better for running Windows programs on Macs, Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop?

"In deciding to release a public beta of Boot Camp, a dual-booting software manager, Apple was saying to the world... [Full Story]

Microsoft wants to replace JPEG with Windows Media Photo

Microsoft has spent their time and money creating something useless... [Full Story]

Exclusive: Apple Retail Store planned for Albuquerque, New Mexico

Several job listings have appeared on Monster.com this morning for positions in an Apple Retail Store slated for the ABQ Uptown... [Full Story]

Apple video-capable iPod nano on the way?

Is Apple planning to add video playback capabilities to their iPod nano soon? [Full Story]

Apple and NBC News add news and documentary shows to Apple’s iTunes Store

NBC News will sell some of its news and documentary programming on Apple's iTunes for downloading to computers or iPods... [Full Story]

Apple wins two coveted D&AD design awards

The D&AD Global Awards, billed as the creative industry’s ‘Oscars’, are held annually, and seek to reward the very best in design... [Full Story]

Apple patent application filed for automatically matching iPod music tempo to exercise level

The recent Apple and Nike announcement was a bolt from the blue- but it appears Apple has been working on similar ideas for a long time... [Full Story]