Has there ever been as confused a launch as the Xbox 360? Microsoft offers gamers two different choices. One has a…
Month: November 2005
Severe iPod shortages plague New Zealand, Australia (but Creative players are plentiful)
A severe shortage of Apple’s iPod is frustrating resellers as they struggle to meet consumer demand this Christmas…
Chicago Sun-Times: Apple’s Mac OS X ‘the easiest, most reliable, and overall best operating system’
I state confidently that the Mac operating system is…
Microsoft Windows virus spreads rapidly; Apple Macintosh unaffected
A Windows virus that warns users about illegal net use is spreading online…
Microsoft tries to blunt power of Apple iPod’s dock connector
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has established a working group to develop a universal docking standard for portable devices…
Retailers report heavy demand for Apple iPod as holiday shopping season begins
iPods became the big-selling product for the US holiday season this weekend…
Disney offers ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ video content for Apple video-capable iPods
The Walt Disney Co. will let consumers watch full-screen, theatrical-quality video directly on computers and the new Apple video iPods…
Apple Computer shares hit new all-time high
Shares of Apple Computer, Inc. rose $2.23, or 3.32%, today to close at a new all-time high of…
Apple up 0.9-percent in pre-market action on traditionally light shortened trading day
With many traders still away for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Wall Street was set to open flat or slightly weaker on Friday…
Reminder: Apple Black Friday ‘The Feast After the Feast’ special one-day shopping event on Nov. 25th
A reminder: Apple has announced a very special one-day shopping event will take place on Black Friday, November 25th…
Apple Computer shares hit new all-time high… again
Shares of Apple Computer, Inc. rose $0.59, or 0.89%, today to close at a new all-time high of…
UK woman narrowly survives Xbox fire; users report Xbox 360 ‘crashing like mad’
So, the Xbox 360’s been available for, what, 15 minutes, and already the crash reports are streaming in…
ZDNet executve editor: forget Sony’s DRM ‘rootkit,’ we should be angry with Microsoft and Apple
Sony’s rootkit, as bad as it was, isn’t the real story. The way the entertainment cartel is applying DRM as a whole is the real story…
RUMOR: Apple working on new home entertainment product for early 2006
Microsoft has made no secret it also is focusing on TV, though its efforts have sputtered off and on. In 1997, it acquired WebTV…
Apple wins final iTunes.co.uk fight over abusive registrant CyberBritian
Ben Cohen, former teenage dot-com millionaire, has given up his fight to regain the itunes.co.uk domain, according…
South Korean FTC probe continues in Apple-Samsung NAND flash memory deal
South Korea is investigating a flash memory supply deal between Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Apple Computer Inc…
Apple adds Pixar movie short ‘Knick Knack’ to USA iTunes Music Store
Apple has added a new Pixar short, “Knick Knack,” to the USA iTunes Music Store…
Apple Computer shares hit new all-time high
Shares of Apple Computer, Inc. rose $1.56, or %2.40%, today to hit a new all-time high of $66.52…
RUMOR: Apple to employ Intel’s ‘Robson’ NAND flash tech to create ‘instant-on’ Macs
I think Apple’s going to be offering instant-on computers in the very near future. Make that near-instant…
Navio threatens to hack Apple iTunes Music Store’s FairPlay DRM à la Real’s ‘Harmony’
A company that specializes in rights-management technology for online stores has declared its plans to reverse-engineer…
Apple Macs are inherently safer and more secure than Microsoft Windows
“The Macintosh is no safer than Windows,” according to Leo Notenboom, writing for Ask Leo!
Report: TiVo to add Mac OS X support for TiVoToGo ‘sometime next year’
TiVoToGo lets owners of TiVo boxes transfer TV shows to their computers, including laptops…
Apple in negotiations with several major UK television broadcasters
Apple has sold more than 30 million iPods around the world, it announced today. The player, introduced in November 2001, has also led to sales…
Microsoft to open Office document format, could spark war with rivals
Microsoft Corp. Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war…
BusinessWeek: Apple iPod a gigantic hit facing staggering demand, shortages predicted
With the holiday shopping season at hand, two truths are swiftly emerging about Apple’s iPod digital-music player…
Samsung, Hynix, Toshiba shares tumble after Apple announcement, Intel-Micron flash deal
Apple Computer’s iPod has become so successful that chip makers Intel and Micron have formed a joint venture…
Intel starts up internal ‘Apple group’
Industry analysts and others have confirmed that Intel Corp. has formed an internal ‘Apple group.’ This group…
Security IT Hub: Apple’s Mac OS X ‘has made security a non-issue for users’
Sure, everyone knows that new Macs are going to be on Intel hardware, but what does that change mean to an average Mac user?
NPD: Apple’s iTunes Music Store now the 7th largest U.S. music retailer, up from 14th last year
Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes online store was ranked the seventh-largest music retailer in the U.S. in the third quarter…
Fair Use doctrine supports TiVo’s new TiVoToGo support for Apple iPod
Shares of digital-video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. were up as much as 8% Monday after the company said it would…
Texas sues Sony BMG for ‘spyware’ on CDs
The state of Texas sued Sony BMG, alleging that the company ‘surreptitiously’ installed spyware on personal computers through music CDs with…
Fingernail-sized piece of opaque tape defeats Sony BMG CD copy-protection DRM scheme
DRM technology can be defeated easily. Gartner has identified one simple technique…
Why music labels want to force multiple price points on Apple’s iTunes Music Store
EMI Group boss Alain Levy said at press conference today that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes…
Apple launches ‘Office Bonus’ deal: Buy any new Mac and save up to 50% on Microsoft Office for Mac
For a limited time, you can load up your new Mac with a full version of Microsoft Office 2004 and save up to $250 after mail-in rebate…
Apple announces Black Friday ‘The Feast After the Feast’ special one-day shopping event on Nov. 25th
Apple has announced a very special one-day shopping event will take place on Black Friday, November 25th…
Microsoft to open up Office file formats to competitors
Microsoft will on Tuesday announce it is opening up access to its Office file formats to competitors…
TiVoToGo probably won’t appear on Apple’s Mac OS X anytime soon
The video iPod isn’t the first portable device to play video, but it is an iPod and that seems to make all the difference…
TVMyPod introduces Apple iPods with pre-loaded movies, TV shows, and videos
One of the first things users noticed about the new video iPod was that it takes a long time to convert videos to iPod format…
Wall Street Journal: TiVo to iPod link made without Apple’s approval
Today, TiVo will announce technology that will let users transfer any TV show stored on their TiVo recorder hard drives to their iPod…
Watch and download Saturday Night Live’s painfully unfunny Steve Jobs skit
Missed this weekend’s Saturday Night Live skit featuring Apple CEO Steve Jobs?
Mac OS X for Intel 10.4.3 cracked to run on non-Apple branded PCs
Sources indicate that OSx86 10.4.3 – which, as reported in this space, contains increased hardware restrictions – has now been cracked in the same fashion…
S&P analyst reiterates ‘hold’ on Apple, raises price target from $56 to $66 on TiVo news
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research analyst Megan Graham-Hackett reiterated a ‘hold’ rating on Apple Computer on news that TiVo…
