For the vast part of the public whose computers aren’t bought and deployed by corporate computer departments, things have gotten much worse lately…
Month: December 2004
RUMOR: Apple prepping new iPhone with partner Motorola, to include iTunes, iPhoto features
Could Apple be working on the much-rumoured iPhone? It’s a rumour that refuses to go away and it’s just surfaced again courtesy of…
Apple changes default page for Safari browser
Apple today changed the default page for its Safari browser. Instead of being automatically redirected to a Netscape news page, with Apple news…
Penn State’s IT Services recommends dumping Microsoft Internet Explorer immediately
Over the past several months, considerable attention has been paid to the security problems surrounding Microsoft’s Internet Explorer by the general news…
Study shows Pentium 4 laptop computers may affect male fertility
Male fertility may be affected by perching laptop computers on the lap, according to a new study. Balancing laptop computers on the lap raises…
Security expert: Don’t use Microsoft Windows, Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer
Bruce Schneier is one of the world’s foremost security experts. His latest book is “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.”
Private school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side requires Apple iPod
Samantha Greene’s parents, there was no getting around it: she had to have an iPod this year. Everybody at school was getting one…
Dvorak: Apple’s iPod may get a run from MSI’s X2 MEGA View portable multimedia player
Various interlopers have taken on Apple with lower price points and failed largely because the Apple design is the most compelling…
Apple’s Xsan due soon, Xserve G5 speed bumps likely for Macworld Expo in January
Apple will demonstrate its Xsan storage area network at Macworld Expo San Francisco while delivering speed bumps to its Xserve line around that time…
The IBM PC saga comes to an end while this reporter’s ‘computer of choice’ is Apple Macintosh
IBM’s latest move away from PCs is a coda on an almost operatic business saga. Big Blue took big risks and suffered from epic blunders…
Japan educators switching from Windows to Mac OS X
Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh computers are making the grade in universities around [Japan]. One after another, schools are switching to Macs from Windows…
IBM sells PC business to China’s Lenovo for $1.25 billion
China’s largest personal computer maker, Lenovo Group Ltd., said Wednesday it is buying control of IBM’s PC-making business for $1.25 billion…
‘Touchy feely’ Apple Computer in dispute over itunes.co.uk website domian name
Touchy feely computer giant Apple is taking on former dotcom millionaire Benjamin Cohen over the ownership of the itunes.co.uk website…
Sony plans new angle of attack on Apple’s market-dominating iPod
If ever there was a company that could challenge Apple Computer for the dominant position in the still-young digital music space, it should be Sony…
Mac OS X freeware FileWrangler 1.1 batch renaming utility released
FileWrangler 1.1 has been released which is an update to the freeware OS X application for renaming batches of files easily…
RUMOR: Apple’s ‘iPod flash’ revealed (with image)
TheMacMind swears up and down that [they] have the scoop on the new flash-based iPod, along with some specs…
More wild speculation about potential Apple and IBM joint venture
Dan Gillmor has blogged The Register’s wild speculation that IBM will acquire or enter a joint venture with Apple, given each other’s mutual interest in the PowerPC microprocessor…
Forbes: Apple Macintosh installed base set to grow again
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of Apple Computer at ‘in-line,’ noting that Apple is ‘one of the few companies in tech with the ability to consistently innovate…
Boston Globe: ‘Forget Microsoft and buy an Apple iPod – it works’
As more and more retailers try to cash in on the online music scene, things are becoming increasingly befuddling for consumers…
Will Apple squander its dominance of digital music?
In the must-have department, Apple’s iPod is the only clear winner in this computer-to-electronics migration. Sure, Dell and HP have bested…
Lehman raises stock price target for Apple Computer citing busy retail traffic, strong iPod demand
Lehman Bros. raised its stock price target for Apple Computer (AAPL) to $64 from $46 and fourth-quarter earnings and revenue forecasts…
Should IBM buy Apple Computer and throw their weight behind Mac OS X?
In the computer industry, some ideas come around again and again. With the industry a-buzz that IBM might be willing to ditch its $11 billion desktop…
Apple’s iPod will dominate the holiday shopping frenzy for MP3 players
US holiday sales forecasts have been decidedly muted this year, but it appeared no one bothered telling the throngs of shoppers crammed…
Oracle to deploy up to 100 terabytes of Apple Xserve RAID storage; Xsan reportedly due soon
Apple Computer’s rack-mounted storage system received a vote of confidence Monday, with database giant Oracle endorsing the Xserve RAID…
Pennsylvania’s Kutztown Area High School students get 640 Apple iBooks
Students used to give apples to teachers. Now they’re the ones getting Apples. At Kutztown Area High School, those Apples are iBooks…
Shares of Apple Computer rise 4.95 percent to close at $65.78
Shares of Apple Computer Inc. rose 4.9 percent on Monday after some analysts said they expected the company to introduce a smaller…
Apple to add subscription-based option to iTunes Music Store?
Subscription-based music services are becoming popular among young adults and will eventually outgrow a la carte song downloads…
Would Apple Computer’s brand value be in danger if its products become ubiquitous?
There’s no doubt that the double whammy of iPod and iMac over the past few years has helped Apple make huge strides forward…
Apple’s Keynote makes better-looking presentations than Microsoft’s PowerPoint
Apple Computer and Microsoft have risen (or stooped) to various levels of audacity over the years in copying each other’s innovations…
More info about MacDailyNews’ site rewrite, hosting, and advertising
MacDailyNews was originally written using MGI and hosted with Mac Dock – a great Mac-based web host that we highly recommend to this day…
Apple to increase Taiwan purchases 25% to US$5 billion in 2005
Apple Computer is expected to purchase about US$4 billion-worth of IT products from Taiwan this year and to increase the amount…
Thurrott: ‘Mac users have made conscious technology choice and are therefore better informed’
Paul Thurrott, in his Internet-Nexus blog, reports on a story about how Firefox users click through to Web site ads four to five times less…
Speculation abounds: Apple to buy IBM’s PC business or IBM to buy, partner with Apple in PCs?
As the IT world digests the fact that IBM has, according to the New York Times, put its PC division up for sale, another set of speculation revs up…
Vidi 0.4.4d9 for Mac OS X now available
Vidi 0.4.4d9 is a freeware application for watching and recording video and also FM radio on any Mac using any FireWire DV device…
J.P. Morgan raises Apple revenue and earnings estimates on expectations for holiday sales
J.P. Morgan Securities lifted its revenue and earnings per share for Apple Computer, citing expectations for holiday sales…
Bear Stearns rasies Apple price target to $72 from $60
Apple Computer Inc. rose 1.8 percent before the bell on Monday after Bear Stearns raised its share price target on the company…
USA Today columnist blasts Mac users and MacDailyNews in blog
Mac Daily News [sic] (I like to think of it as the National Enquirer of the Mac world) switched Web hosts. It used to run on an OSX-based server…
Techno-illiterate columnist continues his call to dump Macs in schools for Windows ‘compatibility’
Woe unto anyone who publicly questions the efficacy of Macintosh computers. You will be set upon by the cult of Mac users. They will call you names…
Apple iPod introducing Macintosh to new potential customers, may help Apple grow Mac market share
The iPod family of digital music players has become seminal icons of consumer electronics, a status that Wall Street analysts believe has finally given Apple…
Duke University’s iPod program revolutionizing students’ experiences with language studies
Duke spent more than one half million dollars this fall to supply each incoming freshman with an Apple iPod. The program is aimed at getting lectures…
How to transfer data on diskettes from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac
Modern Macs can usually read PC-formatted discs and drives without a problem, as long as the files are in basic standard formats like text files…
Tech writer: ‘Apple iPod is the most life-altering gadget to arrive in my 37 years on the planet’
Unarguably, the iPod is the most life-altering gadget to arrive in my 37 years on the planet. For people who cherish song, who find it impossible…
