In the race to become the top mobile digital music store, Sprint Nextel’s latest milestone is a poor marker of success…
Month: February 2006
Tesco opens first Apple Macintosh ‘store-within-a-store’
Tesco, the U.K.’s largest grocer, has opened its first store-within-a-store dedicated to selling Apple Computer products…
Apple Mac OS X 10.4.5 Update eliminates iMac Front Row video redraw issues
Apple Computer has released an update to the Mac operating system that it hopes will alleviate the video problems that consumers…
Veoh tops 250,000 videos downloaded milestone
Veoh Networks, Inc., the first Internet Television Peercasting Network, today announced that video junkies have flocked to Veoh and downloaded more…
TiVo updates TiVoDesktop for Mac
TiVo has updated Desktop for Mac (v1.9.2). This update provides compatability with Mac OS X 10.4: Tiger, but…
Would Apple buying Palm be fruitful or disaster?
How good is Palm’s hand? Never better, say some investors, pointing to booming sales of the company’s Treo smartphone…
Apple offers hidden poetic warning to would-be Mac OS X for x86 hackers
We reported a few weeks ago about Apple’s hidden message to hackers within the hardware restrictions of OS X…
RealNetworks shares drop 9-percent on weak forecast
RealNetworks Inc. shares fell as much as 9% Wednesday, giving back about half its Tuesday gains, after the digital music provider issued…
Columbia U survey finds ‘sheep-like downloading,’ participate to get free music downloads
iTunes shoppers are more likely to download a song if lots of other people have already added it to their digital collections…
Review: Apple iWeb makes ‘pegging out your claim in cyberspace ridiculously easy’
Sticking to its policy of making complicated things easy, Apple has provided us with the means of creating our very own website…
Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel cracked
The hacking guru Maxxuss has announced preliminary patches for Apple’s latest release of OS X for Intel, version 10.4.4…
Report: Apple Mac shipments to hit 10 million mark in 2006
Apple Computer is expected to ship a total of 10 million desktop PCs and notebooks in 2006, with its major contract makers…
Columnist: ‘Intel Inside’ cheapens the Apple Macintosh brand
When Apple first announced its switch to “Intel Inside” most people seemed to rationalise the change on the grounds…
Apple alumni Amelio, Hancock, Woz start Acquicor Technology ‘blank check’ company
Everybody wants a piece of the Apple magic. Investors have clamored for the stock, which has doubled in less than a year…
Toy makers surf Apple’s iPod tidal wave
After bemoaning the emergence of the iPod as children’s latest must-have toy, toy makers are now looking at the digital musical player…
RealNetworks doubled music services subscriber base in 2005, hits 1.4 million subscribers
Seattle-based RealNetworks, which is one of several companies trying to win consumers over to a music-subscription service that competes with Apple Computer’s iTunes store…
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.5, Mac OS X 10.4.5 Server Updates
Apple today released Mac OS X 10.4.5 Update for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs via Software Update which is recommended for all users…
No way to skip Apple MacBook Pro’s 3-4 week shipping delay
Mac users can’t bypass the current 3-4 week waiting period for their new MacBook Pro by upgrading their laptop with a faster 7,200 rpm…
Analysts expect Intel-based Macs to boost Apple’s Mac market share
Apple Computer Inc. said Tuesday it will begin shipping this week the new MacBook Pro, the company’s first laptop computer to feature an Intel Corp…
Warner Music profits nearly double on surge of Christmas iPods
A Christmas Day surge of music downloads on to new iPods helped Warner Music Group nearly double its first-quarter profits…
RUMOR: Google interested in alliance with Apple and iTunes Store?
We are hearing some more chatter today regarding a possible alliance with AAPL and its iTunes unit. While on Feb 10 we heard a rumor…
Apple Macintosh simply does more and costs less than Windows PCs
We’ve all heard how Macs are supposedly so much more expensive than PCs, but now that Apple is going Intel, is this still the truth?
Columnist asks ‘Will there be an Apple iPhone?’
Was the Motorola ROKR iTunes phone a rare misstep by Apple — a result of conflicts between the desires of the computer company…
NewerTech debuts upgraded miniStack V2 storage, port expander for Apple Mac mini
Other World Computing (OWC) and Newer Technology Inc. (NewerTech) today announced the highly anticipated immediate retail availability of the miniStack V2…
Adobe releases Lightroom Beta 2 for Intel-based Macs
Adobe has released Lightroom Beta 2. The program allows users to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images…
S&P Equity downgrades Creative Technology, cites ‘increased competition from Apple Computer’
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research analyst Megan Graham-Hackett downgraded shares of digital entertainment company Creative Technology…
Apple iMac the finest, most reliable, stable, elegant and intuitive personal computer available
Apple’s new iMac running the new Intel Core Duo microprocessor is the finest, most reliable, stable, elegant and intuitive personal computer available anywhere…
RIAA: Make sure you erase music from your used iPod before selling it
It’s a modern dilemma: That iPod you got last year seems so lame now that a newer version is out. If you’re the type that needs…
Apple Mac sales in France up 37% in 2005
Sales of Apple Macintosh computers in France were up 37% in 2005 with Mac market share for 2005 rising to 2.6 % over 2004’s 2.2 %. Apple is now the…
Apple adds TV shows to iTunes, including Schoolhouse Rock, Saved By the Bell, The Biggest Loser
Apple continues their practice of quietly adding TV shows to their iTunes Store…
Apple begins shipping MacBook Pro notebook computers with faster 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processors
Apple this week will begin shipping the new 15-inch MacBook Pro notebook computer featuring the new Intel Core Duo processor which delivers up to four times…
Trusted Computing Group releases Trusted Platform Module 1.2 security chip software specs
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has released software specifications that enable developers to create applications…
More blood on Apple iPod’s Click Wheel: Sony’s Walkman Bean is cooked
After less than four months on the market — and despite the oft-trumpeted, yet obviously meaningless built-in FM tuner…
Analyst: Apple knows how to win the next big battle
Way back when, I used to work in technical architecture and support at a Fortune 10 company. We were unusual since…
Video of how Apple’s rumored touch-screen Tablet Mac could work
There’s talk over at ThinkSecret that the next video iPod may feature a big screen covering the entire front of the device…
RUMOR: Apple preps Intel-based Mac mini Core Solo, drops built-in iPod dock for second time
Apple Computer, for the second time in less than two years, appears to have scrapped plans to include a built-in iPod dock with some of its forthcoming…
Columnist: Apple gets far more positive media coverage than it deserves
“Apple gets a huge amount of positive media coverage. Far more than it deserves. The company is the number one tech story, yet it only accounts…
Top 10 things all Windows to Mac OS X switchers should know
Those Intel-based MacBook Pros and iMacs will soon be in your hands. But before you open those boxes and fire them up, there’s a few things…
Apple’s Mac Products Guide offers searchable list of Mac OS X Universal Applications
Apple’s online Macintosh Products Guide now allows for searching the growing list of Universal Applications available for Mac OS X…
Where would the computing world be if Microsoft never existed?
This piece is the first in a series of articles that seeks to answer two basic questions…
Review: Motorola SLVR Apple iTunes mobile phone ‘an incredibly slick gadget with some shortcomings’
On the heels of creating the first revolution in cell phone design in years, Motorola has finally released a follow-up to the 10-million-selling RAZR…
Apple to offer Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue videos via iTunes Store for $1.99 each
This year, fans of Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue will have an abundance of choice when it comes to formats for viewing the bikini-clad supermodels…
