Last week, we’d heard an unconfirmed report that three new MacBook Pro models…
Month: February 2008
Steve Jobs, the rat in Ratatouille (plus: defending Apple’s MacBook Air)
Apple shipped a few MacBook Air units to its retail stores Friday, leaving the scant supply to mainly serve…
Ron Paul attracts most campaign contributions from U.S. tech employees
While the U.S. electronics industry isn’t a major donor to U.S. presidential campaigns…
iPhoneSender: email Google Map links to your Apple iPhone
While we love the iPhone and its Google Maps application, we still found ourselves printing directions from Google when in a hurry…
Apple to make rival bid for Yahoo?
Global giants including Apple and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp are believed to be considering…
AppleInsider in-depth review of Apple MacBook Air: delicious iPod laptop
The MacBook Air has captured the attention of customers both with its new form factor…
Intel to unveil ‘Silverthorne’ processor this week
Intel Corp. will unveil the world’s biggest commercial microprocessor as well as its smallest and lowest-power…
Apple to open first retail store in China near Tiananmen Square
The 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing (China) have taken years of preparation…
Ars Technica reviews Apple MacBook Air: Despite questionable battery life, it’s a keeper
Apple advertises that the MacBook Air can get up to five hours of wireless productivity on its 37-watt-hour…
MarketWatch: Unlocked iPhones present dilemma for Apple
With its long history in the computer business, Apple Inc. is no novice when it comes to hackers…
More blood on Apple iTunes Store’s play button: Yahoo shutters online music subscription service
Yahoo Inc. will cease operating its online music subscription service and…
Google offers to help Yahoo! fend off Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover bid
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company’s help…
Microsoft crafts new mobile strategy with Yahoo! to take on Apple iPhone
There’s more to the proposed takeover of Yahoo! by Microsoft than a scramble for advertising dollars…
Is Barack Obama an Apple Mac and Hillary Clinton a Windows PC?
Styles make fights — or so goes the boxing cliché. In 2008, they make presidential campaigns, too…
Microsoft already giving up on Windows Vista
It seems that Microsoft is already giving up on Vista and is setting up business users to switch from XP to Windows 7…
Wal-Mart’s digital media head leaves; joins Apple as head of movies/TV, international
Kevin Swint, the digital media head of Wal-Mart has left the company, and is joining Apple next week…
RUMOR: Apple iPhone coming to Italy, Spain, and Switzerland in February
Recent iPhone rumors point to Telecom Italia Mobile grabbing the exclusive Apple iPhone deal in Italy…
Yael Naim rides the wave of Apple’s ubiquitous MacBook Air commercial
You’ll have to forgive Yael Naim if she’s at a loss for words. After all, she’s still trying to figure out how all this happened…
Analyst: Apple orders 20-percent increase in Macs, reduces iPod orders
Following a series of checks with sources in the Far East, researchers for Banc of America…
Sometimes You Can Make It On Your Own: U2 may dump music label
I told you earlier this week that the Rolling Stones are looking at a deal with concert promoter Live Nation…
PC Magazine reviews Apple iTunes 7.6, takes points off for lack of music subscriptions
In his 2008 Macworld trade show keynote, one of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s big announcements…
Net Applications: Apple’s Safari Web browser share hit new all-time high of 5.82% in January 2008
Net Applications’ Web Browser stats for January 2008 show Apple’s Safari hit a new all-time high…
Net Applications: Apple’s Mac OS share hit new all-time high of 7.57% in January 2008
Net Applications’ Operating System stats for January 2008 show Apple’s Mac hit a new all-time high…
Apple’s MacBook Air teardown notes and photos
It won’t be long before we, along with the rest of the Mac market, will be selling replacement batteries for this machine…
SlashGear reviews Apple MacBook Air: If you rack up the miles, this machine is for you
Never before has a keynote product announcement from Apple prompted such contrasts of praise and vitriol…
FDA: Apple iPods unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers
iPods are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers…
Google’s Sergey Brin loves his Apple iPhone
For a company that is busy building its own cellphone operating system, Google shared…
Analyst Bajarin: Apple has another winner on its hands with MacBook Air
Technology analyst Tim Bajarin took his MacBook Air to an Apple store the weekend before it actually hit the market…
Microsoft offers unsolicited $44.6 billion for Yahoo
Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer…
Beleaguered Dell closes Oklahoma call center; axes 225 people
Dell eliminated its consumer sales division Thursday at its Oklahoma City call center…