The next version of Apple’s AirPort Express wireless base station may bundle a wireless remote control, according to hints dropped via…
Month: May 2005
Thurrott: Microsoft Xbox 360 vs. Apple Mac mini
When Apple rolled out its Mac mini in January, a lot of Apple enthusiasts excitedly claimed that the device could easily become a living…
Wired News interviews ‘Podfather’ Adam Curry about podcasting
They call him the Podfather. Once best known as a star veejay on MTV, Adam Curry is now a pioneer of podcasting. Curry helped create ipodder…
Microsoft employees claim Apple lifted ‘Spotlight’ idea straight out of early builds of Longhorn
Microsoft’s MSN division on Monday launched its Toolbar and Windows Desktop Search product after five months of beta testing…
Apple Computer posts new iPod ‘Pop-Lock’ TV commerical online
One week after their debut of the new iPod “Rollerskating” television ad which featured the music “Feel Good Inc.” by Gorillaz, Apple has debuted…
Apple’s Logic Pro 7 to Logic Pro 7.1 Upgrade Kit costs US$19.95
Apple is selling a Logic Pro kit to upgrade your Logic Pro 7.0 to version 7.1 and take advantage of full native plug-in delay compensation…
Freeware ‘Widget, The World Watcher’ guards against ‘malicious’ Dashboard widgets
Widget, The World Watcher 1.0, by developer Zack Schilling, is not only a campy, eco-cartoon from the early 90s, but also a little utility…
Court sides with Apple Computer in ‘Tiger’ trademark lawsuit
A judge has denied a request by computer retailer TigerDirect for a preliminary injunction against Apple Computer over allegations that Apple’s nickname…
RUMOR: Sony and Apple working together on PlayStation 3
The moderator of PS3 Forums, “The Unofficial PS3 H.Q.” has posted the following…
Everything’s ‘super’ at Microsoft
The Microsoft Xbox 360 unveiled Thursday night on MTV isn’t just a video game console. It’s version 2.0 in Bill Gates’ plan to take over your living room…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 demos running on Apple Macs
The nifty clips of video games supporting Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 console are running on Apple machines, Microsoft confirmed on Friday…
Merrill Lynch analyst: Apple could ‘flick the switch on a music subscription model’
In a research note released to clients on Thursday, Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich said the current weakness in Apple’s stock…
Apple offers special sale prices on select eMac, iMac G5, Power Mac G5 Dual models
The Apple Store currently lists products on sale with savings on select new and unopened Apple products. All sale priced Apple products…
Apple offers additional $100 student discount on qualifying Macs until June 25th
In addition to the regular educattion discount, Apple is offering students $100 back by mail when they buy and take possession of a qualifying…
Mafiasoft? Microsoft to roll out anti-virus subscription protection racket
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, unveiled on Thursday plans to launch a computer subscription service that would…
The Butler Group: ‘Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger the best desktop operating system in the world to date’
Buoyed up by the continuing high level of sales of the iPod, Apple has released both variants of the Tiger operating system two months…
There are no viruses for Apple’s Mac OS X
It may or may not surprise you, but there are no OS X viruses (or worms or trojans), partly due to the implementation of OS and its almost-inaccessible Root…
Apple Mac G5s running at 3.2GHz+ by Christmas?
Microsoft’s choice of 3.2GHz PowerPC processors in its new Xbox 360 could suggest significantly faster Macs when the console ships at Christmas…
Cringely: This week changed the world of high tech forever
It’s an expression made popular in Silicon Valley years ago by Andy Grove of Intel: ‘inflection point.’ It’s that abrupt elbow in a graph of growth…
Wendland: Bill Gates is right, iPod will be replaced by smartphones – by Apple
You’ve got to hand it to the iPod competitors: They’re a determined lot. This week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates weighed in on the still-growing popularity…
Microsoft Xbox 360 ‘inspired’ by many of Apple Computer’s ideas
Inspired by Apple’s audacious iPod campaign, Microsoft hopes Xbox 360’s minimalist industrial design and frosty white appearance…
Ranchero Software releases NetNewsWire 2.0
Ranchero Software today released NetNewsWire 2.0, a major update to its easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X…
Microsoft holds ‘Thought Thieves’ short film competition focusing on intellectual property theft
Microsoft is holding a short film competiton they are calling, “Thought Thieves.”
Testing H.264 to destruction or how low can H.264 go? (QuickTime 7 required to view linked samples)
Yesterday I demonstrated how H.264 compares to the Sorenson 3 video compression algorithm. Short answer: favorably. Very favorably…
eWeek columnist and Microsoft apologist Seltzer: Mac and Windows equal in security problems
The last few days have been embarrassing ones for Windows alternatives. Apple released a series of vulnerability disclosures and updates…
Analyst: Yahoo’s music entry threatens Napster and RealNetworks more than Apple
Scott Kessler, director of information-technology research for Standard & Poor’s Equity Research Services, says the online giant’s…
Bill Gates: ‘I don’t believe the success of the Apple iPod is sustainable in the long run’
Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity…
Mac OS X 10.4.1 Tiger update to fix Dashboard ‘hole’ due ‘as early as the end of the week’
A forthcoming update to Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ operating system will reportedly plug a hole in the company’s new Dashboard application…
BofA: Apple’s iTunes Music Store and iPods have symbiotic ‘stickiness, protective effect’
Banc of America Securities said the launch of a new paid music download service from Yahoo! will ‘have very modest near-term impact’ on Apple Computer…
Yahoo’s music play hurts Napster, RealNetworks; may force Apple to offer iTunes subscription service
Yahoo Inc.’s steeply discounted foray into online music subscriptions struck a sour note Wednesday with the shareholders of Napster Inc. and RealNetworks Inc…
Men’s News Daily: ‘Liberals should crawl back into their Apple iPods’
So President George W. Bush listens to an iPod,’ began another pointless space-filler in the [New York] Sunday Times…
Gulf widens between Apple’s Safari and its open-source precursor KHTML
Two years after it selected open-source rendering engine KHTML as the basis of its Safari Web browser, Apple Computer has proposed…
Napster To Go Soon? Reports $24.3 million net loss on $17.4 million net revenue
Online music service Napster on Wednesday posted a fourth-quarter loss but said revenue rose sharply on strong subscriber growth…
Napster To Go Soon? Reports $24.3 million net loss on $17.4 million net revenue
Online music service Napster on Wednesday posted a fourth-quarter loss but said revenue rose sharply on strong subscriber growth…
Motorola expects to launch first Apple iTunes phone this summer, second iTunes phone in 4th quarter
Motorola executive Ed Gams said Motorola hopes this summer to ship its first phone that can download music using Apple Computer…
Apple releases Pro Application Support 3.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.3.9
Apple today released Pro Application Support 3.0 (Mac OS X 10.4)
Apple releases Apple Intermediate Codec 1.0.1
Apple today released Apple Intermediate Codec 1.0.1 which delivers improved compatibility and reliability…
Apple releases DVD Player 4.6 with HD-DVD support
Apple today released DVD Player 4.6 which delivers added support for DVD Studio Pro 4 authored HD DVDs…
H.264 vs. Sorenson 3 shootout (QuickTime 7 required to view linked samples)
First things first: If you don’t have a Mac with QuickTime 7, this post will not be interesting to you. I’m sorry about that, but until Apple…
Enjoying Apple’s iTunes and iTunes Music Store without owning an iPod
Many people who don’t even own an iPod enjoy using Apple’s iTunes software and Apple’s iTunes Music Store service. Some people…
Merrill Lynch: Mac sales ‘hot’ amid slow April Windows PC sales
Merrill Lynch said April PC demand slowed ahead of sluggish summer months, but noted that Macintosh computers were ‘hot’
MarketWatch incorrectly reports that iTunes Music Store songs can only be played on Apple iPods
Yahoo Inc.’s plans to enter the online music-subscription market with a new service that costs less than half of what some rivals…