Apple’s industry-leading production suite, Final Cut Studio, has gone Universal Binary, with native support for both…
Month: March 2006
Troll Touch announces touchscreen solution for Apple Intel Core Duo iMacs
Troll Touch, the Valencia, CA. custom touchscreen system provider has announced the immediate availability of the company’s…
Barron’s lists Apple’s Steve Jobs among ‘World’s Best CEOs’
Just as New York kids in the 1950s used to argue about who was the best centerfielder in town, many investors today have strong opinions…
Bluetooth set for speed leap
The Bluetooth wireless standard used in cell phones and other small devices will take a leap in transmission speed…
Apple upgrades 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display
Even after winning a shootout between the Apple Cinema Display and the Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP from CNET, it has come to our attention…
Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard likely to feature Windows support, drivers for Intel Macs
“In a stunning move, BAPCo, the industry-standard Windows benchmarking consortium, announced that Apple Computer…
Apple Macs are for everybody
For quite some time, Apple has been referred to as the ‘other’ brand when it comes to computers. Most people think only graphic artists…
Apple iTunes Store adds ‘Season Pass’ option for ABC TV shows ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘Lost’
Apple has added the “Season Pass” option to their iTunes Music Store TV Shows offerings for ABC network shows…
JP Morgan: French DRM law will have limited impact on Apple Computer
Analysts for JP Morgan, who offered its clients a 51-page report on the role of DRM in the portable music player market last Spring…
Apple CTO Avie Tevanian to leave Apple on March 31
Avadis ‘Avie’ Tevanian, Apple Computer’s Chief Technology Officer, is leaving the firm to ‘pursue other interests,’
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admits to brainwashing his kids not to use Apple iPods
When Microsoft went public in 1986, there was no 3-D videogaming, no enterprise software, and no Google…
Wired posts ‘Apple Operating System Gallery’ to mark Apple’s 30th birthday
On April 1, Apple celebrates its 30th birthday. Having created one of the first personal computers and the graphical mouse-and-menu…
Dvorak: What the French got right with proposed DRM law
So France doesn’t like the idea that Apple and the iPod and iTunes are intertwined with a proprietary structure that has no way…
Belight Software debuts Windows to Mac ‘Switcher Contest’
BeLight Software today announced their “Switcher Contest” — dedicated to Apple’s 30th Anniversary…
BusinessWeek: ‘There are plenty of reasons to expect Apple Macintosh renaissance’
“It’s remarkable that Apple Computer Inc., heading the BusinessWeek 50 list of the best corporate performers…
IDC expects personal computer shipments to hit 229.4 million units in 2006
Technology-research firm IDC said Monday that the delay in Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will affect personal-computer sales this year…
Cramer: ‘I have never seen a systematic, multiweek bear raid like I have on Apple Computer’
Apple Computer remains the cross-hairs of shorts who ‘will not let this stock live,’ Jim Cramer said…
Intel’s new Core Microarchitecture promises to increase performance and cut power consumption
With energy efficiency creeping up enterprises’ evaluation criteria list, Intel knew it couldn’t afford to allow its future chips to use more power…
Napster to shift focus from subscriptions to ad-based business model
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster maintained an ‘outperform’ rating and $6 price target on Napster…
iTunes Music Store rivals in Denmark push for DRM interoperability legislation similar to France
Apple’s problems in Europe look to be getting worse, not better. Following on the heels of France’s legislative push for DRM…
Apple Computer tops 2006 BusinessWeek 50
With world oil prices high, the energy sector’s strong showing in this year’s ranking of the BusinessWeek 50 comes as no surprise…
Microsoft employees call for heads to roll over continual Vista slips
Microsoft employees are arguing among themselves over who is to blame for the delay in the launch of Windows Vista…
RUMOR: Apple working on low-cost 19-inch widescreen CRT all-in-one eMac successor
“Will there be an Intel-based CRT Mac? Apple appears to be working on a successor to the eMac…
Woz says he never intended to change the world with Apple
Steve Wozniak says he never intended to change the world. That was the other Steve, Steve Jobs. He just wanted to build computers…
Microsoft’s Windows Albatross, er Vista could slip even more
More delays to the release schedule for Windows Vista revealed Friday suggest that problems with shipping the OS may be broader…
Harvard prof: Microsoft Windows users ‘may simply end up with a more and more inferior OS over time’
Microsoft’s marathon effort to come up with the a new version of its desktop operating system, called Windows Vista…
Beatles’ Apple vs. Jobs’ Apple goes to UK High Court this Wednesday
This week the Apple Corps goes to the High Court seeking multimillion-pound damages against Apple Computer…
Apple Computer consistent innovator again and again over 30 years
Here in Silicon Valley, we’re all about change. Out with orchards, in with tilt-ups. Out with analog, in with digital…
San Francisco Chronicle: Apple at risk of making the same mistake twice
“Jobs and Apple are still paying the price for losing a fateful battle with Microsoft in the 1980s…
Mercury News: Low market share is badge of honor for Mac faithful
Apple is now more successful than ever. Sales and profits are setting records every quarter. New models of Apple’s Macintosh computers…
You might be an Apple fanatic if…
They tattoo Apple’s logo on their arm. They help sell Apple products, even though they’re not paid to…
Stereophile senior editor: Apple iPod Hi-Fi ‘produces glorious sound’
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the new iPod Hi-Fi on Feb. 28 by saying…
Vanity Fair: Apple’s Steve Jobs is white-hot center of mass-market media
The rise of Steve Jobs in American business life has always been a story about exceptionalism. He’s been the alternative. The other…
Apple Computer explores new ways of packaging iTunes Store music videos
Apple Computer is exploring new ways to market and sell music videos in bulk as interest in downloadable video grows…
Steve Jobs uses 4.5M Apple shares to pay $295M in taxes on 10M vested shares
Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs this month used over 4.5M of the 10M restricted shares owed to him by the company…
RUMOR: Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to include VMWare-like ‘Chameleon’ virtualization software
Reliable sources informed MacosXrumors that Apple is developing virtualisation software that could be added to Apple’s next major release…
Hackers boot a Dell PC with Apple’s Mac OS X
Unidentified programmers have hacked the Intel version of Mac OS X to enable it to boot a Dell PC…
Adobe CEO: Intel-based Mac version of Creative Suite 3 to debut in second quarter 2007
Bruce Chizen, Adobe Systems CEO, recently chatted with Forbes.com…
Apple continues to shine as company nears 30th year
Silicon Valley’s historic orchards have virtually disappeared but one notable fruit still stands: Apple…
Apple’s Universal applications for Mac OS X list tops 1,300
When you see the Universal symbol on Macintosh applications, that means they’re made to run on both…
HD DVD players release delayed until April
Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has postponed the release of high-definition DVD players in the United States until April…
Microsoft delays Office 2007 launch, too
Fresh on the heels of a delay in broad availability of Windows Vista, Microsoft confirmed late Thursday that it is also pushing…
