Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to rock on weekly. Apple has announced new releases to the iTunes Music Store…
Month: September 2003
Jimmy Buffett to release two live albums exclusively at Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Jimmy Buffett will be releasing two live albums exclusively at Apple’s iTunes Music Store for a month…
Most innovative? Microsoft, Dell place ahead of Apple in new survey
A new survey by strategic consulting and research firm Cheskin and Fitch:Worldwide, an international brand and design firm has been released…
Will Apple dominate online music or get steamrolled (again)?
Apple can dominate the online music scene for decades if they can get enough iPods out there to guarantee…
Apple Computer at brink of online music battle; heavily armed with iPod
Apple is at a crossroads. The company has the hottest hard drive-based music player with its iPod line…
BlueService freeware for Mac OS X updated; sends text to Bluetooth devices
BlueService has been updated to version 1.2.2 by its developer DEVONtechnologies. This service sends selected plain or rich text…
MusicMatch’s usage rights almost as liberal as Apple’s iTunes Music Store’s
An online digital music service debuted Monday offering 99-cent song downloads and the fewest restrictions yet on how often customers…
Apple’s .Mac for $69.95 with Mac purchase promo extended through December 27th
Apple has extended its “A Must-have for Mac Users” promotion through December 27, 2003…
Apple Computer stock up in early trading
It looks like a brokerage house upgrade has boosted Apple Computer (APPL) stock in early trading…
Lehman Bros. analyst upgrades Apple Computer
Analyst Daniel Niles of Lehman Bros. has upgraded Apple Computer (AAPL) to “overweight” from “equal weight,” citing…
MusicMatch launches iTunes-like online music store
MusicMatch today launched its own online music store. MusicMatch offers “200,000 songs” priced at 99-cents each…
Jobs: Apple vs. Apple ‘could drag on for years – it’s unfortunate because we love the Beatles’
A battle over name rights between the Apple computer company and Apple Corps, the Beatles
Apple posts AirPort Extreme Firmware Update version 5.1.3
Apple has updated its AirPort Extreme Firmware Update to version 5.1.3. It is an upgrade for the AirPort Extreme Base Station…
I’m tired of Windows problems, Macs are too expensive, should I try Lindows?
Patrick Marshall does a Tech Q&A column for The Seattle Times. Here’s his number one question today…
Details emerge regarding ‘Dell Online Music Store’ – it’s MusicMatch
It’s looking like the rumored “Dell Music Store” is nothing more than a rebranded version of MusicMatch’s online music store…
Axcess Business News: Is the U.S. government ‘too dependent on Microsoft?’
What [if] the government admitted… that they were too dependent on Microsoft and needed to diversify?
OWC expands Mercury Extreme G4 Processor Upgrade line
Other World Computing (OWC) today announced it has expanded its Mercury Extreme G4 AGP processor upgrade line with the addition of a 1 GHz model…
Windows Messenger pop-up ads assaulting Windows users; Macintosh unaffected
Before Walter Pomerleau could surf the Web recently, he had to fight a new kind of pop-up ad sweeping across the Internet…
Massachusetts to adopt strategy to move from Windows to ‘open standards’ systems
Massachusetts, the lone holdout state still suing Microsoft Corp. for antitrust violations, will become the first state to adopt…
Security expert who called ubiquity of Microsoft software a national security risk fired
A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer…
Nisus Thesaurus for Mac OS X Services a free download
Mac OS X comes with built-in spell checking for many applications, but why stop there? Now you can have an integrated thesaurus as well…
ZDNet’s Coursey praises iPod but takes a subtle dig at Macintosh
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Apple offers up three new .Mac member exclusives
Apple is offering three new .Mac member exclusives. From the .Mac website…
Apple needs to dispel some myths before Mac market share will boom
Apple’s Power Mac G5 is “a true speed demon,” a very powerful personal computer writes James Maguire for NewsFactor Network…
Watch out Apple: Dell to debut new ‘Dell DJ’ iPod-like player, new Dell Music Store
The Dell Digital Jukebox (DJ) is an MP3 player that will try to challenge Apple’s market leading iPod…
Tokyo University to replace 1150 Windows computers with Apple Macs
Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shinbun, reports that Tokyo University will be replacing 1,150 Windows computers on campus…
UNIX Utilities for Mac OS X brings familiar apps to ‘Nix users
Mac OS X is built on UNIX, but it doesn’t ship with a lot of the classic applications and libraries ‘Nix users are used to under UNIX…
Apple announces Apple iLife Educator Awards winners
Apple today announced the winners of the “Apple iLife Educator Awards” for 2003, recognizing the most innovative…
International discontent with Apple builds as non-U.S. users await iPhoto, iTunes feature parity
Apple can’t afford to alienate a significant number of its overseas customers, as they represent a large chunk of the company’s total sales…
S&P: Apple among expected beneficiaries of U.S. computer hardware industry recovery
Apple, Dell, and IBM are expected to be beneficiaries of IT spending improvement, according to a Standard & Poor’s credit analyst, Martha Toll-Reed…
Virginia Tech Power Mac G5 Supercomputer fires up today
The Virginia Tech Power Mac G5 supercomputer will become operational today…
CCIA: Microsoft dominance a national security threat; deters customers from switching to other OSes
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) plans to release a report Wednesday arguing that Microsoft’s dominance…
Wireless iPod could kill piracy; would consumers buy into it?
Riddle me this: What would you get if you crossed a BlackBerry with an iPod? The answer: The future of the music business…
The Boston Globe looks at the state of Mac gaming
The Apple Power Mac G5 is “among the most powerful desktop computers on earth” due to its 64-bit G5 CPU and high-speed hard drive…
Apple pulls Mac OS X 10.2.8 Updater due to Power Mac G4 Ethernet issue
Apple has pulled the Mac OS X 10.2.8 Updater off their site today because some Power Mac G4 machine users found issues with their Ethernet networks…
Microsoft releases 64-bit Windows XP and Server betas
Microsoft today released its 64-bit version of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 in beta form for Advanced Micro Devices’ forthcoming…
Apple adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks and exclusives to iTunes Music Store
Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to rock on weekly…
Apple posts Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update Combo Installer online
Apple has posted the standalone Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update Combo Installer online. It weighs in at 97 MB…
Virginia Tech Power Mac G5 Supercomputer costs 90 percent less than nearest competitor
Virgina Tech’s Apple Power Mac G5 Supercomputer project is shaping up to become “one of the world’s cheapest and most powerful supercomputers”
Stillwater, MN students to get 2,300 Apple laptops; some parents raise objections
The Stillwater Board of Education approved a plan to give every junior high student in the district a laptop computer to use at home…
‘Like no other’ knock-off Apple site surfaces online
Does this look familiar to anyone?
SF Chronicle: ‘AMD’s new 64-bit chips are the first for the consumer PC industry’
After three decades of being overshadowed by Intel Corp.’s dominance, Advanced Micro Devices today…