Month: June 2003

SteveJack writes in the MacDailyNews Opinion section today, “Microsoft doesn’t care which browser Mac users run; Internet Explorer has already won.”

IE is toast. And no matter how Apple and Microsoft try to spin it, it’s one more black eye for Apple as it tries to gain market share…

Microsoft says it is halting development of future Macintosh versions of its Internet Explorer browser, citing competition from Apple Computer’s Safari browser. And God knows Microsoft doesn’t like competition…

Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the update release of the Macintosh accounting/bookkeeping program called TinyBooks…

Ever notice how the word “Keynote” has become somewhat confusing due to Apple’s newish…

Claims that Apple is updating its 15.2in PowerBook was strengthened today when sources said the company has signed Taiwanese notebook manufacturer…

Apple Computer plans to discuss how it will incorporate HyperTransport, a rapid chip-to-chip communications technology…

RealNetworks has announced plans to raise $100m via a convertible bond offering, sparking rumours that it is planning a major acquisition…

Apple and Best Buy are still in contract talks for bringing on the US retailer as an Apple reseller, according to a source familiar with the situation…

I was looking forward to the meeting with Apple’s representatives because they were bringing me two of the hottest notebooks on the market…

Notebooks passed the 3GHz mark on Wednesday. The increase in speed comes courtesy of a new 3.06GHz mobile Pentium 4 chip…

They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but somehow Apple may not end up seeing it that way…

DivXNetworks today announced the release of DivX 5.0.6. A QuickTime codec, this latest version of the DivX video format includes bug fixes…

In an exclusive two-part interview, Apple Computer’s co-founder discusses Steve Jobs and the company’s roots…

Apple Computer is being sued by The Open Group, the San Francisco company that claims ownership of the Unix trademark, for using the term Unix in conjunction with its Mac OS X operating system without a license…

Quark President and CEO Fred Ebrahimi stated yesterday that QuarkXpress 6 was released to manufacturing and should ship next week…

iChatter is a haxie which adds voices to iChat. You?ll hear your Instant Messages spoken aloud using Mac OS X?s built in speech synthesis…

Tech’s big guns are wading into the online music business – and now the big question is whether Microsoft will squash its rivals like a bug…

At a briefing on the Apple campus today, Quark Inc. announced that QuarkXPress 6 for Mac OS X, the latest upgrade to the world’s most widely used page layout software…

Marathon Computer, makers of rackmount solutions and other accessories for Macintosh, has announced a new addition to its lineup…

Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to roll on weekly…

We all remember that, back in february 2003, Microsoft Corp. announced that they had acquired Connectix Corp.’s Virtual PC products…

It took Apple 18 months of cajoling to persuade the world’s largest record labels to contribute their songs to Apple’s upstart music service…

Speculation is mounting that Apple could unveil new Power Macs at its Worldwide Developers Conference…

The Greene County Board of Education endorsed a plan Monday night that would provide Apple iBook laptop computers to every student and teacher…

Cellulo is a free video player for Mac

Some of the Internet’s biggest names are looking to take a bite out of Apple Computer Inc.’s novel online music venture…

Some Foster High School teachers are balking at the idea that the school board could refuse to let them accept $43,000 worth of new computers the school was recently awarded through a grant program…

Security Update 2003-06-09 addresses a potential security issue when the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is used to reshare…

SnapClip is a small faceless background application to take screenshot easily and quickly. The captured image can be copied to the Clipboard, or saved into various format file including…

Determined to exercise my inalienable right as an American to surf the Web from the swimming pool, I enlisted a Wi-Fi engineer who also owns a sprawling suburban home to make my system work…

I have been a Mac user since The Beginning. I have used a one-button mouse, as per Steve Jobs’ decree, until mid May 2003…

“Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes” has updated “iCal Calling iTunes!” to version 3.0. You can use the program to allow iCal to schedule playing of iTunes music playlists…

The number of tracks sold by Apple’s new online music store each week has fallen by about half since the service was launched in late April…

What makes Apple’s new music distribution system so delicious (if not downright insidious) is that you don’t think of it as a music distribution system…

Reliable sources have informed us that Apple Computer is negotiating to buy Roxio…

SteveJack says the Mac world is ready for the productivity gains a standard two-button scroll-wheel mouse from Apple would provide…

An insight into the success of Apple’s online music service has been provided by leaked details from a meeting with representatives from the independent record industry…

Apple will release the new “Power Macintosh G5” immediately following their debut on June 23, 2003…

European Commission investigators are seeking more evidence on whether Microsoft Corp. uses its Windows Media Player software to discriminate against rivals…