A Motorola press release announces…
Month: July 2005
Study: 32 million U.S. adults plan to buy iPod in next 12 months
Have you heard of Sony’s latest creation, the Walkman Phone? If not, you’re not alone. According to a recently released study on digital music devices…
Apple offers 1GB .Mac storage option, sets bandwidth limits on all .Mac accounts
Apple has introduced a new bandwidth/storage upgrade option for its suite of .Mac web services, effectively placing a limit on the amount…
Windows Worm pretends to be Apple’s iTunes
A worm targeting Windows operating systems hides in a file named itunes.exe, and will try distributing itself over AIM…
The Wall Street Journal publishes correction for Apple iTunes article
The Wall Street Journal has published a correction to their article regarding Apple’s iTunes…
The Street’s Wolverton: Apple’s iPod halo shines
Apple’s halo seemed a little more distinct on Tuesday following two reports that highlighted market-share gains for the company’s computers…
Radio Disney comes to Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Radio Disney, America’s leading music destination for kids, tweens and families, announced today that songs from its playlist will be featured…
Microsoft’s Gates ‘not amused’ about Apple’s digital media supremacy, courts Hollywood allies
When Apple Computer transformed the digital music scene in April 2003 by selling songs over the Internet, the richest man in the world was not amused…
Wall Street Journal blows it: iTunes only imports ‘weird AAC format,’ iPod only plays Apple formats
Monica Partridge, a Los Angeles-based Web master, loves her iPod music player but hates the iTunes music store and organizer…
NY Post: signs point to Apple’s iTunes+iPod video plans
Think Video? Apple Computer is reportedly negotiating with major entertainment companies about distributing music videos through…
Star Wars Battlefront ships for Mac
Aspyr Media today announced Star Wars Battlefront, an open-ended single-player and multiplayer action game, has begun shipping for Mac…
Johns Hopkins professor: ‘mercurial’ Apple CEO Steve Jobs a ‘hypomanic’ visionary
We’ve read about them over and over again. An entrepreneur founds a wildly successful business and then is forced out, because…
Apple Mac sales soared in second quarter 2005; Apple now No.4 seller of U.S. personal computers
Apple Computer moved up a notch to become the No.4 seller of personal computers in the United States in the second quarter as Macintosh…
RUMOR: Widescreen, ‘all-new enclosure’ Apple iBooks coming ‘very soon’
Sources have confirmed that Apple’s consumer laptop will receive a long overdue refresh very soon, possibly as early as this week…
Other World Computing launches iPod battery replacement program
Other World Computing (OWC) today announced it is offering an iPod battery replacement program for the not-so-do-it-yourselfer…
MacMod.com announces ‘The Great MacMod Challenge 2005’
MacMod.com today announced “The Great MacMod Challenge 2005 Sponsored by dealmac.com,” officially designating August as Mac Mod Month…
Piper Jaffray: Apple Computer primed for continued market share gains
Based on further evidence of iPod Halo Effect, Piper Jaffray maintained an ‘outperform’ rating on Apple Computer with a $52 price target…
Apple to hold grand opening of Apple Store Eastview in Victor, New York this Saturday
Apple has announced the company’s ninth retail store in New York State. Apple Store Eastview is located on 7979 Pittsford-Victor Road…
Selling music videos on Apple’s iTunes makes economic sense
Apple Computer, whose iTunes and iPods took a major step toward rescuing the music industry from the grip of pirates, is poised…
Report: Disney considers teaming with Apple to deliver iPod video content
Steve Jobs has spoken with Disney President and soon-to-be CEO Bob Iger about ways to license various Disney content for a video iPod…
Gartner: Apple grows shipments 31 percent in Q2 2005, moves from 5th to 4th in U.S. market share
The PC market grew more than expected during the second quarter, thanks to mobile demand, according to research firm Gartner…
IDC: Apple gains U.S. market share at double overall market rate, up to 4.5 percent for Q2 2005
Global shipments of personal computers in the second quarter jumped a better-than-expected 16.6 per ent, paced by strong demand…
Apple releases DVD Studio Pro 4.0.2 Update
Apple today released DVD Studio Pro 4.0.2 Update via Software Update. The Update addresses isolated stability issues. Most significant…
Report: Apple to increase retail store hours by 46-percent
Under the theory that a closed store is an unproductive store, expect Apple’s retail stores to become more productive. It seems nearly impossible…
Ars Technica peeks at Apple’s portable video plans
The WSJ is reporting today that Apple has been in talks with major recording companies about selling music videos on iTMS…
Needham & Co: Apple ‘iPod Halo Effect’ fueling Mac purchases; predict 43 million iPod sales in 2006
Apple extended its string of upside revenue and earnings surprises in the third quarter. The two key drivers of the Apple story…
The Bend Bulletin’s blooper: ‘When Microsoft launched Windows they clearly were innovating’
The way Robert Newhart II sees it, the only resource America has left to capitalize on is one the nation has been known for since its beginning…
PC Magazine gives Apple’s iTunes 4.9 rating of 4 out of 5 stars
Apple gives podcasting a huge nudge into the mainstream by blending innovative podcast download and management features…
S&P Equity Research reiterates ‘hold’ on Apple Computer following video iTunes+iPod reports
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research has reiterated their “hold” rating on Apple Computer, Inc. following a Wall Street Journal report stating…
More info about Apple’s reported iPod+iTunes video talks
Apple Computer has approached several major record companies about selling music videos through its iTunes store, according…
Windows users resort to throwing out PCs rather than cleaning spyware, malware infested machines
Add personal computers to the list of throwaways in the disposable society. On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker’s Dell desktop…
Steve Jobs: ‘WOW!’ – Apple iTunes Music Store downloads top half a billion songs
Here’s the official press release from Apple regarding yesterday’s 500,000,000th iTunes song sale…
WSJ: Apple in video iTunes talks, may unveil video iPod by September
Apple Computer recently held discussions with major recording companies, seeking to license music videos to sell through the company’s…
Over half a billion songs have been sold from Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Over half a billion songs have been sold and legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store…
Enderle: ‘Big Apple Computer announcement coming, could be media center done right’
With Apple effectively announcing the end of all Power-based products, it is really hard to see how Apple hardware can survive…
Analysts think different: It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times for Apple Computer
Shares of Apple Computer (AAPL) jumped 9% this week to $41.55 on phenomenal quarterly sales of the technology outfit’s digital music players…
Report: Apple’s Safari browser third in browser market share for June
The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser nibbled at Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer market share in June, continuing a consistent…
AC Research analyst: Apple’s Q4 2005 guidance ‘too conservative,’ reiterates ‘accumulate’ rating
Analyst Henning Wagener of AC Research reiterates his ‘accumulate’ rating on Apple Computer…
Aspyr Media releases free DOOM 3 update for Macintosh
Aspyr Media has released a free update for the English version of DOOM 3 for Macintosh…
Cringely: Apple working on HD movie download service and Video iPod
What are to we to expect from Apple? Would the company petulantly reject these new dual-core processors for the subsequent…
Report: Apple may be meeting goal of selling 1 million iPod shuffles per month
Apple Computer may have met an internally kept goal of selling one million iPod shuffles a month during the first fiscal quarter in which…
Apple to launch iTunes Music Store in Japan this August
Major music label Avex Inc said it has reached an agreement to supply music to Apple Computer…
