The number of people who download free serial audio programs, or podcasts, is set to explode over the next few years, according…
Month: July 2005
Apple researched and developed ‘universal wireless touch-screen remote’ patent filing reveals
Apple Computer recently researched and developed a wireless touch-screen remote control concept that would automatically discover…
Sony debuts US$199 1GB iPod shuffle killer, bills it ‘small as a pack of gum’
It looks as if Sony is attempting to give Apple competition in the area of world’s smallest mP3 player. The company is now offering…
SmartMoney: Napster is a snooze, gushing money and renting music is un-American anyway
Did you hear? Napster s going to use Dell PowerEdge blade servers in its effort to provide universities with legal music downloads…
Colleges should not exclude Mac and iPod users with Dell, Napster music hardware, software offering
Dell and Napster said they will provide colleges with a legal online music hardware and software package. The offering combines Napster’s…
Nine Figures 2 tracks Apple’s iTunes Music Store song sales in Mac OS X menu bar
Nine Figures 1 put the number of songs Apple had sold on the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in your menu bar. Nine Figures 1 was designed…
Microsoft ‘Plays For Sure’ logos don’t always guarantee your music will play for sure
I’ve been a little skeptical of the whole Plays for Sure logo program that Microsoft started in order to make sure consumers understood which…
Mossberg: Some openly pornographic podcasts slip onto Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Since its introduction last week, the iTunes podcast directory has become very popular, and is the easiest way to get and listen to podcasts…
TheStreet.com dubiously concludes that iPod demand has slowed, could impact Apple earnings
If recent developments are any indication, Apple could have sour news for investors when it reports earnings next week…
Free ‘iTunes Music Store Estimator’ follows Apple’s counter, alerts before each milestone sale
iTunes Music Store Estimator for Mac OS X 10.2 and higher is a little application that shows the estimated current total of tracks sold on the iTunes Music Store…
Apple’s ‘rare grand strategy’ played out for all to see with switch to Intel processors
It’s rare that one gets to watch grand strategy played out right before one’s eyes. Apple’s decision to switch from IBM to Intel as its microprocessor supplier…
SecurityFocus: ‘Your Windows computer is not to be trusted; buy a Mac and slip under the radar’
Left to its own meanderings, your Windows computer is not to be trusted. Don’t do any online banking unless you have a router, a firewall…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs places sympathy call to family of boy slain over iPod
As Errol Rose made preparations on Monday to bury his 15-year-old son, Christopher, who was killed last week in Brooklyn during a fight…
Amnesty Widget Browser 1.0 released; runs Dashboard Widgets on Mac OS X Panther, Tiger Desktops
Mesa Dynamics today announced the official release of Amnesty Widget Browser 1.0, the Mac OS X utility for running Dashboard widgets…
Target to launch online digital music service; incompatible with Apple iPods that Target sells
Consumers love digital music, they’re just not that eager to pay for it. Perhaps Target can help change their minds. The Minneapolis-based…
Denon debuts home entertainment products offering dedicated Apple iPod connectivity
Denon Electronics, an industry leader in home entertainment technology, today announced the first products in a planned family of advanced…
Apple begins ‘Back to School’ push
Apple has begun their “Back to School” push in earnest. Already, the company’s “Buy a Mac – Get a free iPod mini” promotion…
Audible’s NPR loss looks to be Apple iTunes Music Store’s gain
Audible.com’s loss looks to be Apple’s gain. The podcast section of the iTunes Music Store Monday included a subscription option for NPR’s…
Busting the ‘there is no Mac software’ myth
There are fewer Macintosh than Windows applications, but with four or five award-winning word processors, who needs sixty?
Apple to webcast third quarter 2005 financial results conference call on July 13
Apple Computer Inc. has scheduled their quarterly financial results conference call webcast to discuss the company’s…
Infoworld columnist: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘exhibits broad performance improvements’
Compared to Panther, the Mac OS X 10.3 system software, Tiger exhibits broad performance improvements. It’s noticeably faster…
J.P. Morgan raises Apple estimates based on ‘more optimistic’ Mac shipments
J.P. Morgan Securities raised its third-quarter earnings view on Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) based on a “more optimistic” Mac shipments…
Apple blasted by RSS community leaders for ‘proprietary’ iTunes Podcast implementation
With the release of iTunes 4.9, Apple included the first edition of a long-anticipated XML document type definition (DTD) for RSS 2.0…
First Albany raises Apple earnings, sales, iPod forecasts, cuts Mac mini forecast
First Albany raised its earnings and sales forecasts for Apple Computer (AAPL) as higher sales from its new Tiger operating system…
Apple launches iTunes Music Store Countdown to half a billion songs; win 10 iPods, 10,000 songs
Apple today kicked off its countdown to half a billion songs sold on the iTunes Music Store with an online song counter so music fans around…
Teen killed for his iPod
Two teenagers were under arrest Sunday on suspicion of killing another teen for his iPod portable music player, police said…
Apple iPod sales humming right along in Australia
The iPod phenomenon that many thought would peak after the Christmas rush has maintained its momentum. An eBay spokeswoman…
Newsday: ‘Widget mania is for real’ with Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger’s Dashboard
Widgets, which were introduced in the spring as part of Apple’s latest operating system update called Tiger, qualify as a terrific novelty…
Photos of Motorola E790 ‘Apple iTunes phone’ posted online
Engadget has scored some actual live shots of a cellphone running Apple’s new iTunes Mobile software…
Apple’s Intel move not without issues
Word earlier this month that Apple will use Intel processors in its next-generation Macintosh computers was a bombshell, but one expected…
Apple iTunes 4.9 dramatically increases KCRW podcast downloads
KCRW-FM General Manager Ruth Seymour was getting her teeth cleaned in February when her dentist suggested the station adopt a new technology…
Piper Jaffray: Apple Computer ‘the clear winner’ in audio download industry
Piper Jaffray said Apple Computer and Napster both continue to gain traction in the audio-download industry, with Apple…
Aspyr and Macgamestore giving away free 60GB Color iPod
Macgamestore.com and Aspyr Media are teaming up for a chance to win a brand new, free 60GB Color Photo iPod and a free Aspyr T-Shirt…
Windows Longhorn (aka Win XP SP3) spells big trouble for Microsoft
Longhorn, by the features: WFS: Cut, .NET Framework: Cut, MONAD: Cut, Integrated Search: Cut, Avalon: Who knows? Indigo: Who knows?
Apple iTunes leaves Microsoft Media Player in the dust
The overwhelming success of the iPod — which now accounts for about 75% of the 22 million personal music players that have been bought…
Lance Armstrong to podcast daily during Tour de France
Starting July 2, Lance Armstrong goes for a record-breaking 7th consecutive Tour de France victory, and no one gets you closer to the yellow…
HP adds ‘Apple iPod shuffle from HP’ to digital music player line
Rounding out its lineup of digital music players, HP today added the “Apple iPod shuffle from HP.”
Beleaguered Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo ‘optimistic’ the company will survive ‘MP3 war’
Singapore’s Creative Technology Ltd. intends to maintain its business focus, even as it faces increasing competition in the MP3 player…
